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SENEGAL: Dispute Over Fishing Permits for Foreign Fleets Hots Up
- Inter Press Service
Senegal's small-scale fishers are challenging the government over licences granting foreign trawlers permission to fish in Senegalese waters. The artisanal fishers condemn the 'selling off' of the country's fishery resources at a time when stocks off Senegal's coast are severely depleted.
Emerging Markets Clash with Anachronistic Institutions
- Inter Press Service
The first weeks of April have witnessed a maelstrom of multilateralism — from the chambers of the annual Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) here to the round tables of the BRICS summit in the resort island of the Hainan province in China — leaving in its wake a tome of unanswered questions regarding the contours and configurations of the new world order.
BRAZIL: From Development Aid Recipient to Donor
- Inter Press Service
Although Brazil's international development funds are still small compared to those of the industrialised world, the South American giant's foreign aid has grown considerably in the last eight years, and the country has gone from beneficiary of development assistance to donor.
WORLD: Finding Funding for LDCs Amidst Global Financial Crisis
- Inter Press Service
Representatives of the world’s poorest nations are preparing to assemble a new 'programme of action' to reduce grinding poverty. Among proposals that could emerge from the U.N. Least Developed Countries Conference in Istanbul next month is a global tax on financial transactions that would generate billions of dollars a year for development assistance.
EL SALVADOR: Drivers Risk Extortion, Murder by Gangs
- Inter Press Service
Zigzagging along the streets of the Salvadoran capital in his bus, José Nuila is much more worried about avoiding an attack by youth gang members than about making his way through the complicated tangle of traffic.
PERU: Local Gov'ts Fail to Prioritise Equality for Women
- Inter Press Service
Legally, each of Peru's 25 administrative regions must have a plan for promoting equal opportunities for women. But over the last year, only 10 regions have actually allocated resources to the task of overcoming gender inequity, while another 10 have not even drawn up the compulsory equal opportunities plan.
DEVELOPMENT: IBSA Fund Packs Small But Sustainable Punches
- Inter Press Service
Despite only three million dollars a year coming into the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Fund for Poverty and Hunger Alleviation, it aims to pack punches above its weight with small but sustainable projects.
South Africa Key to Swazi Protest Outcome
- Inter Press Service
Uneasy calm returned to the streets of Manzini, Swazi commercial capital, after two days of heavy-handed police action against unions protesting government's handling of the financial crisis gripping the mountain kingdom.
Uganda Latest Govt to Face Down Protests
- Inter Press Service
The Ugandan opposition has announced it will continue protests against rising prices for fuel, food and other essential commodities, undeterred by violent police repression of the previous two days of action.
G24 Says Rich Nations' Policies Hurting Developing World
- Inter Press Service
Finance ministers of the G24 group of developing and emerging countries met on the sidelines the World Bank and International Monetary Fund spring meetings here on Thursday, warning against continued risks to their economies, despite largely 'strong' growth as the world climbs out of the global financial crisis.
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