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CARIBBEAN: Turning Landfills into Energy
- Inter Press Service
The tourist brochure shows pictures of lovely white sandy beaches, tall coconut trees and rolling mountains. Welcome to the Caribbean.
Millennium Goals Mock Nepal’s Slave Girls
- Inter Press Service
Five years after Nepal abolished Kamalari, a system of girl slavery, thousands of young women are still awaiting promised rehabilitation and support from the new democratic republic.
South African Township Desperate for Safe Drinking Water
- Inter Press Service
Thousands of residents in Diepsloot, a large township north of Johannesburg, South Africa, are queuing for hours to access clean, safe water a week after their supply was contaminated by sewage.
More Toilets in Zimbabwe, Better Livelihoods
- Inter Press Service
Government and sanitation experts say Zimbabwe needs to increase efforts to promote good hygiene and invest in toilets and clean water provision, as the country grapples with a typhoid outbreak.
U.S. Patriot Act Kept Somalia Starving
- Inter Press Service
When war-torn Somalia was also ravaged by a drought-induced famine last year, which killed tens of thousands and displaced over a million people, international media was quick to blame the Islamist Al-Shabaab for blocking humanitarian assistance from reaching its zone of control in southern Somalia.
Brazilian Favela Becomes a Living Museum
- Inter Press Service
The history, daily life and folk artistry as well as spectacular views of this southeastern Brazilian city are all part of a living museum created by community leaders in a favela that is displaying its cultural heritage as well as its wounds.
Business20 Makes Its Weight Felt at G20 Meeting
- Inter Press Service
The concerns of the business community basically monopolised the first day of the meeting of trade and economy ministers of the G20 group of industrialised and emerging countries in this Mexican resort city Thursday.
U.N. Chief Says Syria Has Broken Ceasefire
- Inter Press Service
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon the has called for a U.N. observer mission in Syria to be expanded, even though he says Damascus has failed to adhere to a ceasefire central to an agreed peace plan.
Protest Time in Tunisia Again
- Inter Press Service
Thousands of centre-left demonstrators violently clashed with police in street battles that completely shut down central Tunis last week, left scores seriously injured and underlined the persistent divisions in Tunisian society.
Malaysia’s New Security Act Spares Politicians
- Inter Press Service
Malaysia’s new internal security law is as draconian as the colonial law it has replaced, but has the saving grace that it will not target political opponents of the government, say critics.
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