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WEST AFRICA: Stopping the Polio Virus
- Inter Press Service
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and its partners hope to eliminate the circulation of the polio virus in West Africa as soon as June by launching the first round of national synchronised immunisation days against the debilitating disease.
CLIMATE CHANGE-BRAZIL: The Threat Posed by Livestock
- Inter Press Service
The livestock industry has less economic clout than the oil industry, but ranchers say it has better arguments to defend itself from accusations regarding its share of responsibility for global warming.
DEVELOPMENT: 'Aid Industry is Part of the Problem'
- Inter Press Service
Aid organisations perpetuate humanitarian disasters. That is one of the conclusions made by war correspondent Linda Polman in her latest book as she describes the world of humanitarian aid.
DEVELOPMENT: Bad Water More Deadly Than War
- Inter Press Service
Bad water kills more people than wars or earthquakes, declares Anders Berntell, executive director of the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI).
Q&A: Tapping Women's Enterprise to Topple Rural Poverty
- Inter Press Service
Employees at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) may have cause to fear for their jobs after Yukiko Omura was appointed vice president of the United Nations' rural poverty agency in February.
VIETNAM: Salinisation, Drought Bring Worries to Mekong Delta
- Inter Press Service
He has worked this land for half of 64 years and is known among his fellow farmers in Kien Giang province here in the Mekong Delta as ‘lao nong’, or the old master of rice.
PAKISTAN: Attacks Bring Humanitarian Work to A Virtual Halt
- Inter Press Service
Bomb attacks and threats to non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have brought development work to a virtual halt in the lawless, volatile environment that is the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), located near Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan.
HAITI: Recovery Bill Estimated at 11.5 Billion Dollars
- Inter Press Service
Two weeks before a major donors conference, the Haitian government has estimated that the country will need some 11.5 billion dollars over the next three years to recover from the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake.
POLITICS-RWANDA: Woman Vies for Top Job
- Inter Press Service
On average women constitute 18.8 percent of representatives in parliaments across the world according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). This gender imbalance has been subject to much feminist criticism and many campaigns for change have been staged to address the status quo. The situation is however different in Rwanda.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Unexpected Low Custom Revenue Causes Budget Shortfalls
- Inter Press Service
Plummeting revenues from the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) could cause severe financial difficulties in the region, economic experts warn. To make matters worse, the organisation is split over the future of its tariff pool that largely bankrolls the national budgets of its poorer members.
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