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  1. Sparks Fly As Sierra Leone’s VP Is Expelled From Party

    - Inter Press Service

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    NEW YORK, Mar 17 (IPS) - An internal war is roiling the administration of President Ernest Bai Koroma with the Vice President, Samuel Sam-Sumana, at dead center. The VP, expelled last week from the ruling All People's Congress (APC), is said to be forming a rival political movement from his home district in Kono, the country's raw diamond capital, and an election decider.

  2. Caribbean Community Climate-Smarting Fisheries, But Slowly

    - Inter Press Service

    KINGSTON, Mar 17 (IPS) - Caribbean nations have begun work on a plan to ‘climate smart' the region's fisheries as part of overall efforts to secure food supplies.

  3. Palestinian Grassroots Resistance to Occupation Growing

    - Inter Press Service

    RAMALLAH, West Bank, Mar 17 (IPS) - As soon as the truck carrying Israeli dairy products entered Ramallah's city centre it was surrounded by Palestinian activists who proceeded to remove and trash almost 20,000 dollars' worth of mainly milk and yoghurt.

  4. Socioenvironmental Catastrophe Emerges from the Ashes of Patagonia’s Forests

    - Inter Press Service

    BUENOS AIRES, Mar 17 (IPS) - In the wake of the fire that destroyed more than 34,000 hectares of forests, some of them ancient, in Argentina's southern Patagonia region, the authorities will have to put out flames that are no less serious: the new socio-environmental catastrophe that will emerge from the ashes.

  5. Women Often Forgotten In Cases Of Forced Disappearance

    - Inter Press Service

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    UNITED NATIONS, Mar 16 (IPS) - Governments must do more to address the impacts of forced disappearances of women, according to an international justice report released Monday.

  6. Sendai Conference Stresses Importance of Women’s Leadership

    - Inter Press Service

    SENDAI, Japan, Mar 16 (IPS) - Women play a critical role in reducing disaster risk and planning and decision-making during and after disasters strike, according to senior United Nations, government and civil society representatives.

  7. Four Ways Women Bring Lasting Peace to the Table

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Mar 16 (IPS) - 2015 marks anniversaries for two significant commitments made to increasing women's participation at peace tables.

  8. Indonesia’s Palm Oil Industry in Need of a Makeover

    - Inter Press Service

    BALI, Indonesia, Mar 16 (IPS) - Over the past three decades, 50 percent of the 544,150 square kilometres that comprise Kalimantan, the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo, has been taken over by the palm oil industry.

  9. Middle East Conflicts Give Hefty Boost to Arms Merchants

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Mar 16 (IPS) - The ongoing conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen have helped spiral arms sales upwards to the Middle East, according to a study released Monday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

  10. Opinion: Gender Equality, the Last Big Poverty Challenge

    - Inter Press Service

    NEW YORK, Mar 16 (IPS) - It is estimated that women account for two-thirds of the 1.4 billion people currently living in extreme poverty. They also make up 60 per cent of the world's 572 million working poor.

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