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/UPDATE*/MAURITIUS-POLITICS: Voting for the Future
- Inter Press Service
Incumbent Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam has won the Mauritian election, retaining a third term of office.
ECUADOR: Native Groups Poised for Nationwide Protests Over Water Bill
- Inter Press Service
Indigenous organisations in Ecuador opposed to a water reform bill that they say would give mining companies and agribusiness privileged access to water have threatened to extend their protests around the country in order to keep the legislature from passing the bill without certain modifications.
Q&A: World's Fastest Cat on Its Ninth Life
- Inter Press Service
Over the last century, 90 percent of the cheetah population in the world has been killed, and it is now the most endangered animal in Africa.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Colombian Forest Project Reaps Credits... and Criticism
- Inter Press Service
The 'Procuenca Initiative' in the Andes region of western Colombia may be the first in the world to sell certified forest carbon credits with a biodiversity protection component. But alarms are sounding about the potential negative social and environmental consequences.
Residents Hope 2010 Flooding Prompts Govt Action in Luanda
- Inter Press Service
The water seeped into Feliciana Teresa Matia’s home from beneath its mud floor and when her 20-year-old son Francisco got up to go to work, grabbing a metal pole for guidance in the dark, he was electrocuted.
ECONOMY-GREECE: Convulsions Follow EU Shock Therapy
- Inter Press Service
The firebombing of a bank by demonstrators protesting against severe austerity measures, which killed two women and a man, appears to Greeks as a sign of social deterioration arising from their country’s financial crisis.
UGANDA: New Version of Anti-Counterfeiting Bill Still Problematic
- Inter Press Service
The Ugandan government’s controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Bill has been amended after civil society organisations campaigned against provisions in the bill that may restrict access to generic medicines, which form the bulk of medicines used in the East African country.
POLITICS: East Timor-Australia Urged to Dialogue Over Gas Fields
- Inter Press Service
The prickly issue of where to pipe and process gas from the Timor Sea between Australia and East Timor must be resolved through open dialogue, say members of civil society in East Timor.
AUSTRALIA: For Some Refugees, Not Yet the Land of ‘Fair Go’
- Inter Press Service
After nearly 10 years of living in Australia, Sri Lanka-born Ramesh Fernandez is convinced nothing much has changed for refugees in the land of the ‘fair go’.
Greater Support Needed For Botsana's Women Farmers
- Inter Press Service
On the outskirts of Botswana’s capital, Gaborone, Charity Molefhi is learning the ropes of the horticulture industry.
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