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Fighting Hunger - Arresting South Sudan’s Idle Youth
- Inter Press Service
JUBA, Sep 05 (IPS) - Police in South Sudan have begun press-ganging every "idle" youth they can find to provide labour on police farms. The State Police Commissioner in Northern Bahr al Gazal state says young men cannot be left to drink tea and play cards all day while food insecurity threatens the country.
U.S. Ready to Cut Egypt's Debt
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 05 (IPS) - As reports surfaced Tuesday that U.S. negotiators, in Cairo for the past week, are closing in on an agreement to cut a billion dollars from Egypt’s bilateral debt, the State Department here announced that a record-sized U.S. business delegation would travel to Egypt later this week.
Report Details Rising Police Brutality in the Maldives
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 05 (IPS) - A human rights crisis has engulfed the Indian Ocean nation of the Maldives since the ousting of the former president, Mohamed Nasheed, on Feb. 7, activists warned here Tuesday.
Families of ‘Disappeared’ and Forensic Institute on Good Terms Again
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Sep 04 (IPS) - Relations between the families of people “disappeared” by Chile’s 1973-1990 dictatorship and the forensic institute, which have been tense since a 2006 scandal when the state body admitted that it had misidentified 96 of the 126 bodies found in a common grave in 1991, are beginning to mend.
Côte d’Ivoire’s Universities - Shedding a Legacy of Violence and Corruption
- Inter Press Service
ABIDJAN, Sep 04 (IPS) - Yacouba Coulibaly was pursuing a doctorate in education at Cocody University in Abidjan before Côte d’Ivoire’s post-election violence started in 2010. But his classes were routinely disrupted by armed members of a powerful student federation that wished to hold meetings instead.
Thousands of Senegalese Producers Living off Market Gardening
- Inter Press Service
DAKAR, Sep 04 (IPS) - Thousands of farmers are earning a living growing fruit and vegetables in the Niayes, a strip of fertile land running north along Senegal's western coastline from the outskirts of the capital, Dakar. But land speculation threatens the future of this market gardening.
Ruling Against Thermoelectric Plant Sparks Debate
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Sep 04 (IPS) - A Chilean Supreme Court decision ordering a halt to the construction of the Castilla thermoelectric power plant has sparked a debate over the country’s energy security.
Cook Islanders Greet Leaders At Pacific Islands Forum
- Inter Press Service
, Sep 04 (IPS) - The 43rd Pacific Islands Forum was held in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, from 28 to 30 August 2012 involved leaders from the 16 member Pacific nations including Australia and New Zealand. This year's theme: “Large Ocean Island States – the Pacific Challenge” with major topics including climate change, trade and fishing.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton along with more than 500 officials from nearly 60 countries including China, and European Union attended as observers and participated in other meetings in the Cook Islands, some 3000 km northeast of New Zealand.
How to Get People to Make More Babies in Singapore
- Inter Press Service
SINGAPORE, Sep 04 (IPS) - How to get Singaporeans to have more babies has become a major part of the debate about this country’s future, and the government is encouraging people to speak out on the issue.
- Inter Press Service
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