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/CORRECTED REPEAT/SOUTH AFRICA: Racist's Death Highlights Rural Tension
- Inter Press Service
Eugene Terre'Blanche, killed on his farm on Easter weekend, is catalysing racial tension in South Africa in death much as he did in his life.
SRI LANKA: Once Under Attack, Jaffna Media Get Reprieve
- Inter Press Service
About eight months back, delivery boys for this northern city’s main newspaper were accompanied on their rounds by government soldiers — the first time a Sri Lankan broadsheet was being delivered under armed guard.
DEVELOPMENT-CAMBODIA: Conflicts Simmer Over Land Concessions
- Inter Press Service
When villagers in Kandal province near the Cambodian capital blocked National Road 2 in early April, it was just the latest protest by rural villagers angered by yet another alleged land grab.
US-NIGERIA: Acting President Gets Attention
- Inter Press Service
Among the almost four dozen heads of state who have gathered here for this week's Nuclear Security Summit, Nigeria's acting president, Goodluck Jonathan, has been receiving a disproportionate share of high-level attention.
AFRICA: Monitoring a Changing Climate
- Inter Press Service
The gathering environmental crisis presented by global warming makes effective weather information and prediction a matter of urgency. As Africa's farmers come to grips with adapting to climate change, it may be that the best way to equip them is to involve them directly in collecting the data.
HEALTH: Empowering Women to Slash Mother and Child Deaths
- Inter Press Service
In developed countries, child and maternal mortality is a health problem that has largely been solved.
MIDEAST: Gazans Gassed by Silent Killer
- Inter Press Service
'You feel very sleepy and dizzy. You put your head down and all you want to do is sleep. Everything feels very peaceful, you are not even aware what is happening and if there is no immediate intervention you are dead within minutes,' Enaam Abu Nada told IPS.
SOUTH ASIA: Water Shortage Calls for Second Look at Indus Treaty
- Inter Press Service
Climate change and the probability that a current water shortage would worsen may make constantly bickering neighbours, India and Pakistan, take a closer look at a 50-year-old treaty under which they share rivers originating from the Himalayas.
SENEGAL: Small-Scale Irrigation: Key to Rural Development
- Inter Press Service
Over the past four years, the Local Small-scale Irritation Project has spent more than $10.5 million U.S. dollars supporting rural communities in Senegal.
AFRICA: Land Grabs Continue as Elites Resist Regulation
- Inter Press Service
A year after the purchases of vast swathes of farm land in Africa first drew public attention, transactions remain as opaque as ever. Private companies are resisting a global code of conduct that would ensure transparency and local elites continue to benefit from deals that encourage corruption and increase food insecurity.
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