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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Plumbing Grey Data for Clear Water
- Inter Press Service
They come like pilgrims to the Department of Geological Surveys office in Lobatse, 120 kilometres south of the Botswanan capital. In the sparsely furnished offices there, they pore over charts, trying to take the guesswork out of choosing where to sink a borehole.
INDIA: Tech to the Rescue of School Lunch Model
- Inter Press Service
Surrounded by lush green wheat and yellow flowering mustard fields at Ekdanta primary school, it is noon and the 57 children in two combined classes are fidgety - impatient for the school served midday meal.
U.S. Nuke Plant Safety Questioned in Wake of Japanese Disaster
- Inter Press Service
As Japan continues to battle the threat of nuclear meltdown in the wake of Friday's devastating earthquake, lawmakers, environmental activists and the nuclear industry in the United States are squaring up for a heated contest over the future of atomic energy in this country.
LIBYA: Satellite Technology to Help the Displaced
- Inter Press Service
Analysis based on satellite images and maps is helping to identify the flows of people fleeing the political violence in Libya to neighbouring countries.
MEXICO: Resurgence of Cooperatives Offers an Alternative
- Inter Press Service
After years of decline, the cooperative movement in Mexico is reviving as a relatively safe haven from the shocks of the neoliberal free- market model of production and the financial and food crises that have affected the country.
Sri Lanka: NGOs Face Funding Gap and Government Scrutiny
- Inter Press Service
Lack of donor funding, state phobia against western NGOs, and restrictive work permits for foreign aid workers have together hit the operations of several dozen Sri Lankan NGOs and their foreign counterparts.
ZAMBIA: The Extended Family - Blessing or Burden?
- Inter Press Service
Peggy Kapanda has bad memories of the time she spent living with her uncle when she was young. She was treated as a second-rank child. But this only motivated her to do a better job herself. At her small home in John Laing compound, in Zambia's capital Lusaka, she and her husband take care of two other children in addition to their own three young boys.
MALAWI: Uncertainty Over Role for Traditional Birth Attendants
- Inter Press Service
When the ban on traditional birth attendants was lifted last year, pregnant women quickly appeared at Dorothy Chirwa's door in Malombe village in Mangochi, a district on the southern shores of Lake Malawi. Chirwa was among the thousands of TBAs banned from providing women with care in 2007.
Ivorian Cocoa Producers Cry Foul Over Sanctions
- Inter Press Service
The international community's efforts to deny embattled president Laurent Gbagbo access to funds from cocoa exports have resulted in hundreds of thousands of tonnes of Ivorian cocoa surfacing in neighbouring countries. Producers say not only are they selling their perishable crop to black market buyers for a fraction its market value, they are being unfairly victimised by the political situation.
India, Wary of China and Pakistan, Boosts Arms Stockpiles
- Inter Press Service
As it projects its political and economic power in Asia - and vigorously pushes its longstanding claims for a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council - India is also steadily strengthening its military might in the sprawling continent.
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