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Women’s Inequality Linked to Soaring Population
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 12 (IPS) - The world’s population now stands at about seven billion, and by 2050, this figure will hit a whopping nine billion.
SOUTH KOREA: Stuck in the 20th Century?
- Inter Press Service
, Jul 12 (IPS) - South Korea is at the cutting edge of global technology. It is one of the most wired countries, and its biggest cities have the fastest Internet connections in the world.
Youth grow flowers to get money
- Inter Press Service
, Jul 12 (IPS) - Farming flowers in slums is becoming an option for jobless youths in cities across Cameroon. Flowers and ornamental trees are planted to decorate compounds ,roadsides, lanes and tourism sites. Aaron Kaah reports.
Snails boost food, medicine production
- Inter Press Service
, Jul 12 (IPS) - Starting plantation farming in Cameroon in the 1980’s, and the spraying of pesticides, almost drove certain snail species to extinction. But farmers in the coastal regions of Cameroon are now cultivating the animals for food, traditional medicine and income.
Paradise island fights poverty
- Inter Press Service
TURKMENISTAN: Ashgabat Quietly Builds Up Caspian Military Might
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 12 (IPS) - When it comes to the brewing arms race in the Caspian Sea region, no one can accuse Turkmen leader Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov of navel-gazing. Ashgabat is now able to back its claims to some energy-rich patches of the sea with considerable firepower.
Making it Compulsory to Have Women in Ghana’s Parliament
- Inter Press Service
ACCRA, Jul 12 (IPS) - Beatrice Boateng, a member of parliament with the New Patriotic Party, Ghana’s official opposition to the ruling New Democratic Congress, has earned her place among the country’s lawmakers.
DRC Warlord Sentence a Joke, Say NGOs
- Inter Press Service
KINSHASA, Jul 12 (IPS) - Non-governmental organisations in the Democratic Republic of Congo province where Thomas Lubanga Dyilo used children as fighters in his militia in 2002 to 2003 have slammed his 14-year sentence as inadequate – and potentially dangerous.
Voting for Peace in the Distant Desert
- Inter Press Service
SABHA, Libya, Jul 12 (IPS) - On election day long lines of people from Sabha’s impoverished community of Tayuri waited to vote under the harsh Saharan sun. Four hundred miles from the Mediterranean coast, Sabha is tucked into the volatile southwest bordering Algeria, Niger and Chad.
Making it Compulsory to Have Women in Ghana’s Parliament
- Inter Press Service
Beatrice Boateng, a member of parliament with the New Patriotic Party, Ghana’s official opposition to the ruling New Democratic Congress, has earned her place among the country’s lawmakers.
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