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SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Local Communities Tapped to Counter Mekong Floods
- Inter Press Service
With monsoon rains beginning to sweep across mainland south-east Asia, mobile phones are being put to further use as part of a plan to protect communities living on the banks of the Mekong River from flash floods.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Developing a Pristine River: The Okavango Basin
- Inter Press Service
With the welcome end to wars in the upper reaches of the Okavango River, has come new pressures for development and the risk of unwelcome changes to the health of the river. A joint commission to manage the basin is developing tools to avoid this.
AFRICA: Small Scale Farmers Vulnerable to New Wheat Fungus
- Inter Press Service
Aston Kirui’s worst experience with wheat stem rust was in 2009 when he lost most of his crop. The wheat farmer from Katakala village in Narok, west of Kenya’s capital Nairobi, is more fortunate this year as the disease has not struck. But his neighbour is not so lucky.
NEPAL: Peace Process Survives Scare But Road Ahead Still Bumpy
- Inter Press Service
Nepal’s three major political parties inked a compromise deal Friday, an hour before the expiry of the Constituent Assembly’s (CA’s) tenure, and voted in favor of a bill proposing extension of its term by a year, thus saving the country’s four-year-old peace process from breaking down.
And Not a Drop to Drink for Palestinians
- Inter Press Service
A new desalination facility has come up here on Israel's Mediterranean seashore, to soothe Israel's chronic fresh water shortage. An elaborate network of pipes beneath the beach reaches westward far into the sea. Eastward, it links up with the national water system.
Millennium Goals Need Development, Not Charity
- Inter Press Service
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) came into existence in the right place, the United Nations, but at a most unpropitious time, in September 2000, when ideas about the invincibility of market forces still held sway in the world.
URUGUAY: Environmental Partners
- Inter Press Service
A wide range of strategies are being followed in the southeastern Uruguayan province of Rocha to counteract the environmental damages of activities like soy cultivation, plantation forestry and tourism. But challenges abound.
BRAZIL: Pres. Candidates Not Risking Economic Surprises
- Inter Press Service
Not the leftists, not the social democrats, not the greens. Ideological differences aside, the three leading candidates for the Brazilian presidency are singing the same tune on the economy: no surprises, no market shake-ups.
SOUTH AFRICA: Lack of Quality Health Care Causes Rise in Orphans
- Inter Press Service
Two small boys play quietly on a jungle gym, some distance away from other children. The six-year-old twins, who live at the Masigcine children's centre in Mfuleni township, 35 kilometres out of Cape Town, are severely traumatised from being orphaned at the age of one and have difficulty relating to their peers.
JAMAICA: Communities Pay High Price for Soaring Crime Rates
- Inter Press Service
This week's ongoing standoff in Jamaica, in which 73 people have been killed as police search for a wanted gang leader in the Tivoli Gardens neighbourhood of Kingston, is focusing renewed international attention on the island's seemingly intractable violent crime rate.
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