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WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Poverty without Borders
- Inter Press Service
It's the land of freedom, of bright lights and burgers, where daring entrepreneurs arrive from across the planet in search of fame and fortune. The United States of America - the world's melting pot - has been a symbol of hope for centuries, but behind this vision of wealth and wonder is a tale often untold.
Iran Shadow Touches Egypt
- Inter Press Service
The young activists who began Egypt’s popular uprising admit the online campaign that turned into the country’s largest ever anti-government street demonstrations has far exceeded their expectations. But as the movement gains momentum, protesters are beginning to think about what kind of state will emerge if President Hosni Mubarak falls. And many are worried.
MIDEAST: A Region in Flux, But Will Reforms Stick?
- Inter Press Service
As the world watched nine days of largely peaceful demonstrations in Egypt degenerate into bedlam fueled by confrontational pro-government hoodlums wielding Molotov cocktails Wednesday, observers are tracking the regional contagion of popular, reform-driven uprisings and wondering whether they are enough to usher in real change.
Bankers Bash on, Regardless
- Inter Press Service
The World Economic Forum became a platform this year for bankers to seek to re-assert their traditional power. And once again, it became a forum - in contrast and even opposition to the World Social Forum due to begin in Senegalese capital Dakar next week — where the damaging effects of globalisation and the environmental consequences of unrestrained growth were pushed aside.
COTE D'IVOIRE: February Month of Action by African Union
- Inter Press Service
A High Level Panel has been set up by the African Union to send a team of experts to Côte d'Ivoire and come up with a solution to the political impasse that would be binding on both incumbent Laurent Gbagbo and his rival for the presidency, Alassane Ouattara.
ZIMBABWE: Filtering Fact Fiction About D.I.Y. Water Treatment
- Inter Press Service
The southern Zimbabwean city of Bulawayo has not been spared the heavy rains that have fallen across Southern Africa; the water is welcome in this semi-arid part of the country, but the coming of the rainy season has provoked fresh memories of the 2008 cholera epidemic.
SOUTH AFRICA: Delayed Drug Registration Could Affect Region
- Inter Press Service
Delays in drug registration by the country's Medicines Control Council (MCC), contribute to depriving South African HIV patients of important fixed does combination antiretroviral (ARV) drugs. But there are indications that the effects of the delays are being felt even farther afield.
China and Brazil Inundate Latin America with Dams
- Inter Press Service
The growing presence of Chinese and Brazilian capital in Latin America's energy sector is facilitating the construction of hydroelectric complexes, but is also the fuelling nationalist stances that are adding to the environmental criticisms of those major projects.
Questions About China’s 'Win-Win' Relationship With Angola
- Inter Press Service
Crouched on haunches on the edge of a crumbling pavement, a group of Chinese construction workers are eating noodles from tin bowls, wearing floppy straw hats under their green safety helmets to protect them from the aggressive midday sun.
EGYPT: Why the Army Won’t Shoot Protesters
- Inter Press Service
Khalid Ibrahim Al-Laisi has been a soldier in the Egyptian army for 20 years. Tody, far from shooting protesters, he says the time has come 'to revolt against oppression.'
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