News headlines
Malawi's Heroines of the Floods
- Inter Press Service
NSANJE, Malawi, Oct 13 (IPS) - For many women in Malawi’s disaster-prone southern district of Nsanje, resilience is essential to survive the cyclical flooding.
South African Truckers Lose Despite Wage Agreement
- Inter Press Service
DURBAN, South Africa, Oct 13 (IPS) - The signing of a wage agreement between transport workers’ unions and employers on Friday, Oct. 12 may have brought a three-week long truck driver’s strike to an end but analysts say the effects are far reaching and will continue to impact on the South African economy.
In 2012, Swaziland’s King Faces People Power
- Inter Press Service
MBABANE, Oct 13 (IPS) - Swaziland’s King Mswati III is under immense pressure following the constitutional crisis that has resulted from his cabinet’s refusal to resign after the House of Assembly passed a vote of no confidence.
Experts Urge Focus on Microeconomics in Maghreb
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (IPS) - A failure to focus on small-scale economics could be the most significant obstacle to stability in North Africa in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, economists, diplomats and development workers warned here on Friday.
Women Are the New 'Emerging Market'
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, Oct 12 (IPS) - Empowering women in the business world is not only a smart political decision, but also makes good economic sense.
Brazil’s Gender Quota Law Off to Underwhelming Start
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 12 (IPS) - Brazil’s new law requiring that 30 percent of candidates must be women made a less than impressive debut in Sunday’s municipal elections, although female candidates for mayor made better headway than women running for town councils.
Rural Women in Peru Cope “Where Life Is Very Sad”
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Oct 12 (IPS) - When the crops in her rural highlands community in southern Peru were covered with a thick layer of ice one night, Felícitas Quispe, 43, organised her neighbours to make an effort to keep people from starving to death.
Cooperatives Summit Celebrates Power in Diversity
- Inter Press Service
QUEBEC CITY, Canada, Oct 12 (IPS) - The migratory seeds of cooperatives were sown and first thrived in Europe, but have since adapted to the climate of nations worldwide.
India Ignoring Coastal Biodiversity - NGOs
- Inter Press Service
HYDERABAD, India, Oct 12 (IPS) - Indian civil society organisations see in the 11th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP11) to the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD), underway in this south Indian city, a rare opportunity to highlight alleged neglect of biodiversity along the country’s extensive coastal and marine areas.
Israel Gives U.S. Election Company
- Inter Press Service
JERUSALEM, Oct 12 (IPS) - The timing of Benjamin Netanyahu’s call for early elections is no coincidence. The incumbent Prime Minister’s strategy is to receive the Israeli public’s renewed confidence as a new U.S. president takes office, thus making himself immune to U.S. pressure as the debate on how to deal with Iran’s nuclear programme enters a critical phase.
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