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NIGERIA: New Law to Promote Locals in Oil Industry
- Inter Press Service
'This bill seeks to address the compelling need for us as a nation to have indigenous participation in the industry.' With these words, Nigeria’s acting President, Goodluck Jonathan, signed the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development Bill into law.
'Radical Reform' Urged for Private-Sector Development Support
- Inter Press Service
Policies and initiatives by multilateral development banks (MDBs) to support the private sector in developing countries need to be carefully reviewed and reformed to ensure they are reducing poverty and protecting human rights and the environment, according to a new report by a coalition of six major non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Sharing the Okavango
- Inter Press Service
Each January, a giant pulse of water from heavy summer rains over the south of Angola enters the Okavango River system and begins a five-month journey through Namibia to a richly biodiverse swamp in Botswana's Kalahari desert. The river is a rarity, scarcely disturbed by human development along its 1,100 kilometre length: shaping its future is the delicate task of the Okavango River Basin Commission.
Crisis Trapping Millions More in Poverty
- Inter Press Service
The global economic crisis is projected to hamper progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and will directly impact MDGs related to hunger, child and maternal health, gender equality, access to clean water and disease control, according to a report released Friday by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
CENTRAL AMERICA: 'It's Up to the EU Whether the Deal Is Signed'
- Inter Press Service
'We do not see a real willingness on the part of Europe to take Central America's interests seriously,' Guatemalan deputy minister for integration and foreign trade Raúl Trejo said in Brussels, at the final round of negotiations for a treaty between the two regions.
World Court Highlights Environmental Vulnerability of Uruguay River
- Inter Press Service
If anything was left clear by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on the long-running pulp mill dispute between Argentina and Uruguay, it was the weakness of rules and regulations to prevent pollution of the Uruguay River in the 508-km stretch shared by the two countries.
POLITICS-BURMA: Ethnic Rebel Groups Defy Junta’s Order
- Inter Press Service
Burma’s military regime is facing a formidable challenge from ethnic rebel groups that are refusing to kowtow to its order that they join the South-east Asian country’s army as border guard forces.
RIGHTS-KENYA: Court Victory Against 'Anti-Counterfeit' Agenda
- Inter Press Service
The Constitutional Court in Kenya has barred the government from implementing the Anti-Counterfeit Act of 2008 as it applies to generic medicines until a verdict is delivered in a case filed by three people living with HIV.
BALKANS: Freedom Fighters or Freeloaders?
- Inter Press Service
When one of Croatia’s best kept secrets, the list of independence fighters enjoying lifelong benefits, appeared on the Internet earlier this month it sparked off a huge scandal in this nation that became a sovereign state after the bloody 1991-95 war with Serbia.
SRI LANKA: Former Battle Zone Getting Used to Peace
- Inter Press Service
In the yard of the Javiz Arulanandam’s church here lies the top portion of a statue of Jesus Christ. Only the head remains of the statue, which would have been at least 20 feet tall.
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