News headlines for “Natural Disasters”, page 367
Port Development Brings Progress to Brazil – At a Price
- Inter Press Service
SÃO LUIS, Brazil, Mar 21 (IPS) - "We are victims of progress,"complained Osmar Santos Coelho, known as Santico. His fishing community has disappeared, displaced to make way for a port complex on São Marcos bay, to the west of São Luis, the capital of the state of Maranhão in Brazil's northeast.
A Precarious Victory in El Salvador
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 20 (IPS) - After a closely contested election in El Salvador, the progressive Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) has emerged victorious, declaring a narrow victory over a right-wing opposition party that appealed to the military for intervention.
West Africa’s Refugee and Security Crisis
- Inter Press Service
ABIDJAN, Mar 19 (IPS) - In West Africa, the Malian and Ivorian political crises have resulted in the biggest number of refugees in the region. But brewing insecurity could mean that they will be unable to return home any time soon as armed groups remain a threat to West Africa.
Cameroon ‘Safe Haven’ Town Strains Under CAR Refugee Influx
- Inter Press Service
Garoua-Boula, Cameroon, Mar 18 (IPS) - Abdul Karim arrived in Cameroon's eastern border town of Garoua-Boula from Central African Republic's Yaloke district at the end of February as part the largest influx of refugees into Cameroon.
U.S. Ukraine Aid Frustrated by IMF Reform Debate
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 15 (IPS) - Despite pressure from the Barack Obama administration, Ukraine's new prime minister, and a veritable who's who in Washington's foreign policy and financial establishment, Congress adjourned Friday for a 10-day recess without approving emergency assistance for an increasingly beleaguered and economically bereft Ukraine.
Split over Ukraine Could Undermine Peace in Syria
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 13 (IPS) - As the protracted Syrian conflict enters its fourth year, there seems to be little or no hope of a resolution to the devastating crisis.
Caribbean to Forge United Front on Elusive Climate Finance
- Inter Press Service
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, Mar 13 (IPS) - Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, the prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, says the promises of money by the "biggest polluters in the world" for small island developing states (SIDS) like his to adapt to climate change are a mostly a "mirage".
South Africa Battles Drug-Resistant TB
- Inter Press Service
CAPE TOWN, Mar 12 (IPS) - Despite an increase in diagnosis times, South Africa is facing a growing drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) burden as nationally there remains a large gap between the number of patients diagnosed with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) and those who start treatment.
Q&A: Women Hold the Key to Peace in DRC
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Mar 12 (IPS) - Ireland's former President Mary Robinson has been working hard to include women from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Great Lakes Region in the regional peacebuilding process. Because without their involvement, she says, peace and security in the region will be unrealistic.
Brazilian Innovation for Under-financed Mozambican Agriculture
- Inter Press Service
MAPUTO, Mar 12 (IPS) - Some of the technological excellence that revolutionised Brazil's tropical agriculture is reaching small producers in Mozambique. But it is not enough to compensate for the underfinancing of the sector.
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