News headlines for “Natural Disasters”, page 358
El Niño Triggers Drought, Food Crisis in Nicaragua
- Inter Press Service
MANAGUA, Jul 10 (IPS) - The spectre of famine is haunting Nicaragua. The second poorest country in Latin America, and one of the 10 most vulnerable to climate change in the world, is facing a meteorological phenomenon that threatens its food security.
Putting Population Management in Pacific Women’s Hands
- Inter Press Service
PORT VILA, Jul 10 (IPS) - Populations of many Melanesian countries in the southwest Pacific Islands region are expected to double in a generation, threatening regional and national efforts to improve low economic and human development indicators.
OPINION: Obama’s Quick Fix Won’t Solve the Regional Refugee Crisis
- Inter Press Service
SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 09 (IPS) - In recent months, an unprecedented surge of refugee women and children has been traveling alone to the United States to seek protection at our southern border.
World's Poorest Nations Seek Presence in Post-2015 Agenda
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 08 (IPS) - The 48 least developed countries (LDCs), described as the poorest of the world's poor, want to be an integral part of the U.N.'s post-2015 development agenda currently under discussion.
Amid Scepticism, U.N. Trumpets Successes in Cutting Poverty
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 07 (IPS) - With 17 months before the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reach their targets by the December 2015 deadline, the United Nations is trumpeting its limited successes - but with guarded optimism.
Child Migrants Flee Central American Crisis
- Inter Press Service
IRAPUATO, Mexico, Jul 07 (IPS) - In early May, the Irapuato Migrants' House, in the centre-west Mexican state of Guanajuato, took in a group of 152 Garifuna Afro-Caribbean people from Honduras. Sixty of them were children.
Single Mothers Battle on in Former War Zone
- Inter Press Service
VALIPUNAM, Sri Lanka, Jul 07 (IPS) - The village of Valipunam, 322 km north of Sri Lanka's capital Colombo, occupies one of the remotest corners of the country's former war zone. The dirt roads are impossible to navigate, there are no street lights, telephone connections are patchy and the nearest police post is miles away, closer to the centre of the battle-scarred Mullaitivu district.
Floods Displace Lives and Dreams in Paraguay
- Inter Press Service
ASUNCIÓN, Jul 03 (IPS) - The worst floods in the history of Paraguay have forced 300,000 people to flee their homes. Asunción, the most affected area, and other urban and rural areas were flooded by the rain-swollen Paraguay and Paraná rivers, foreshadowing what might happen when the El Niño phenomenon kicks in.
For the Caribbean, a United Front Is Key to Weathering Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten, Jul 02 (IPS) - As the costs of climate change continue to mount, officials with the Commonwealth grouping say it is vital that Small Island Developing States (SIDS) stick together on issues such as per capita income classification.
Here Are the Real Victims of Pakistan’s War on the Taliban
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jul 01 (IPS) - Three days ago, Rameela Bibi was the mother of a month-old baby boy. He died in her arms on Jun. 28, of a chest infection that he contracted when the family fled their home in Pakistan's North Waziristan Agency, where a full-scale military offensive against the Taliban has forced nearly half a million people to flee.
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