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SUDAN: Oil Consortium Behind War Crimes - Aid Agencies
- Inter Press Service
The entry of a Swedish-led oil consortium into southern Sudan in 1997 triggered civil war and crimes against humanity, claims a European coalition of aid agencies.
BRAZIL: Thirst for Energy Drives Construction of More Dams in Amazon
- Inter Press Service
Electricity consumption in Brazil will rise by 5.9 percent a year until 2019, and hydroelectric plants will continue to be the main source of power because they generate it at a lower cost, the government announced.
RWANDA: Women Win by Formalising Businesses
- Inter Press Service
The vast majority of businesses in Rwanda - like elsewhere in Africa - are informal. Government expects that a drive to register an estimated 900,000 informal enterprises will both strengthen these businesses and improve tax revenues.
Distrust Hinders Disarmament in Latin America
- Inter Press Service
Peru's proposal to curb military spending in Latin America is weakening as the 40th General Assembly of the Organisation of American States (OAS) comes to an end, undermined by wariness on the part of some governments and by nationalist interests, according to experts.
MALAYSIA: Planned Subsidy Cut Draws Fire, Seen to Hurt the Poor
- Inter Press Service
The government’s proposal to remove and rationalise subsidies on essential goods and services continues to provoke a storm of criticism from ordinary Malaysians.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Restoring Trust After 'Horrible' Copenhagen Conference
- Inter Press Service
Six months after failing to reach a binding agreement on climate change, negotiators are meeting in Bonn to try to get the process back on track. But deep disagreement over measuring developing countries' emissions and finding funds for adaptation to climate change remain unresolved.
FOOD: Something's Rotten in Venezuela
- Inter Press Service
Tens of thousands of tonnes of basic foods rotted in the last year in shipping containers belonging to the Venezuelan government. Fully two-thirds of the food consumed by Venezuela's 27 million inhabitants is imported.
Argentine Hake On the Brink of Collapse
- Inter Press Service
The Argentine hake fisheries of the southern Atlantic Ocean, among the world's leaders in the white fish market, are on the verge of collapse due in part to the indifference of the Argentine people, who are apparently more interested in beef, a staple of their diet.
INDIA: 25 Years On, Bhopal Tragedy Victims Still Crying for Justice
- Inter Press Service
Twenty-five years after an industrial gas leak from the factory of a U.S. multinational firm in this ancient India city killed thousands and impaired nearly half a million, victims are still crying for justice.
CAMBODIA: Aid Donors Urged to Demand Faster Reforms from Gov’t
- Inter Press Service
P. Yuen Mach sat on the floor of her wooden home, her hands nervously twisting a stalk of lemongrass into fibrous strands.
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