Global Issues
News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 1051
Sri Lanka feels the Heat
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Feb 28 (IPS) - Sri Lanka is heading into a major crisis under extreme heat, with the rains staying away. Fears are growing of power cuts and interruption to water supply because reservoir levels are running scarily low.
Women On The Move, And In Danger
- Inter Press Service
HYDERABAD, India, Feb 28 (IPS) - It was 8.45 pm, and a 22-year-old woman was looking for a cab to go home after a trip to a city mall in India's Hyderabad city. A cab arrived, and the unsuspecting computer engineer got in, little knowing she was stepping into a trap.
Rich Railroad Brings Few Opportunities in Brazil
- Inter Press Service
ALTO ALEGRE DO PINDARÉ/SÃO LUIS, Brazil, Feb 28 (IPS) - The Carajás railroad, regarded as the most efficient in Brazil, runs a loss-making passenger service for the benefit of the population. But this does little to make amends for its original sin: it was created to export minerals and crosses an area of chronic poverty.
Somalia’s Sacked Soldiers Threaten Mogadishu’s Security
- Inter Press Service
MOGADISHU, Feb 27 (IPS) - Residents of Mogadishu have raised concerns about their safety after the Somali army recently fired hundreds of disgruntled army soldiers, many of whom are believed to still be in possession of their arms.
Indoor Mini-Farms to Beat Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Feb 27 (IPS) - Industrial engineer Ancel Bhagwandeen thinks that growing your food indoors is a great way to protect crops from the stresses of climate change. So he developed a hydroponic system that "leverages the nanoclimates in houses so that the house effectively protects the produce the same way it protects us," he says.
Economic Reforms Needed for Peace in South Sudan
- Inter Press Service
JUBA, Feb 27 (IPS) - Gatmai Deng lost three family members in the violence that erupted in South Sudan on Dec. 15 and lasted until the end of January. And he blames their deaths on the government's failure to use the country's vast oil revenues to create a better life for its almost 11 million people.
North Korea Doing Fine Without the South
- Inter Press Service
SEOUL, Feb 27 (IPS) - If the North Korea of the 1990s was seen as a starving nation that produced an exodus of hungry people, then the picture should be even gloomier now – six years after it stopped receiving South Korea's generous aid. But it's not. The nation of 24 million people, widely said to be the most secretive in the world and a nuclear threat, appears to have weathered the years well.
Zanzibar’s Rising Violence Against Women
- Inter Press Service
ZANZIBAR, Tanzania, Feb 26 (IPS) - The story of Feiza*, an 18-year-old girl who was abducted and raped, is a bleak testament to the worsening plight of women in Tanzania's semi-autonomous archipelago, Zanzibar.
The Race to Save the Caribbean's Banana Industry
- Inter Press Service
LONDONDERRY, Dominica, Feb 26 (IPS) - When Dean, the first storm of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season, lashed Dominica on Aug. 16, it left behind a trail of destruction, claimed the lives of a mother and son, and decimated the island's vital banana industry.
U.N. Report on South Sudan Paints Grim Picture
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 26 (IPS) - An interim human rights report released by the beleaguered U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan is being tentatively hailed by rights groups and observers who have pressured the mission to be more transparent with its findings.
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