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DEVELOPMENT-BAHRAIN: Escalating Dowries Take Toll on Men
- Inter Press Service
Surging dowries and the skyrocketing costs of living amid constricting economic opportunities made worse by the global financial crisis have placed a heavy burden on Bahraini men contemplating marriage.
San Fight Land Grab in Namibian Park
- Inter Press Service
Pensioner Makena Makanga slowly savours a piece of manketti fruit unaware that the tree it came from will soon be chopped down and mulched along with the rest of her forest to make way for a massive agribusiness project.
Angola's Small-Scale Farmers Welcome Investment, Urge Careful Targeting
- Inter Press Service
Think small to overcome big problems - that was the message to African governments being urged to do more to increase food security and reduce hunger and malnutrition on the continent.
THAILAND: Media Grapple with Questions of Credibility, Bias
- Inter Press Service
Two months into Thailand’s anti-government protests and as an army-led blockade is underway to end them, the media are struggling with challenges to their credibility and perceptions of bias in the South-east Asian country’s gravest political stalemate in years.
AFRICA: Military Manoeuvres in the Sahel
- Inter Press Service
Military exercises are under way in the Sahel region as part of the United States-led Trans-Saharan Counter Terrorism Partnership. Participating militaries are enthusiastic, but civil society cautions that force may not be enough to ensure regional security.
CHILE: Gender Equity Progress Blocked by Hard-Core 'Machismo'
- Inter Press Service
More than 60 percent of Chileans surveyed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are opposed to full equality between women and men, according to a new national report released by the agency on Friday.
WORLD: North Should Pay South Reparations for Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
The North should pay reparations to the South for the effects of climate change.
UGANDA: U.S. Congress Clears Anti-LRA Bill
- Inter Press Service
The U.S. Congress has cleared legislation requiring President Barack Obama to devise a strategy over the next six months to help capture the leadership of the Lord's Revolutionary Army (LRA) and protect the civilian population in four eastern and central African countries from its rampages.
CARIBBEAN: Verdict Still Out on Trade Pact with Europe
- Inter Press Service
A year and a half after Caribbean leaders inked a controversial and sweeping free trade pact with the European Union, concerns are emerging that the region is lagging in accessing some of its benefits.
COLOMBIA: After Forced Displacement by Conflict, Relocation by Landslide
- Inter Press Service
More than 380 families -- some 2,000 people -- in this vast working-class district on the fringes of the Colombian capital that is home to hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the armed conflict are to be relocated after landslides caused by leaking water pipes.
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