Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 681
South Sudan Celebrates a Troubled First Birthday
- Inter Press Service
The streets have been swept clean and lined with flags to mark the first anniversary of South Sudan’s independence. But cosmetic changes in the capital, Juba, mask deep concerns about the future of the world’s newest nation.
South Sudan Women Await Independence From Poverty
- Inter Press Service
One year after the formation of South Sudan, the country’s women say that independence has not resulted in the positive political, economic and social changes that they had hoped for.
Truckers Celebrate NATO Resumption
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Jul 08 (IPS) - “I’m happy that I will be resuming work soon,” says Zarbistan Khan, who owns and drives a tanker that takes oil from the southern port city Karachi to Afghanistan. But the joy comes under the shadow of a Taliban threat to attack supply convoys.
To Aid Afghans, Not Just Afghanistan
- Inter Press Service
HERAT, Afghanistan, Jul 07 (IPS) - Afghanistan’s international donors will gather on Sunday in Tokyo for a conference at which they are expected to pledge economic aid, and ensure their assistance level will be maintained after withdrawal of ISAF-NATO troops, in 2014. But Afghan people and civil society groups working in the country say much of the aid is being directed the wrong way.
Key Syrian Defection Heartens U.S.
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 07 (IPS) - The defection this week of a key general with longstanding ties to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad was hailed Friday by officials in the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama as an important step towards ending the regime.
Anxiety as Donors Chart Aid for Afghanistan Beyond 2014
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 07 (IPS) - A key United Nations official on Friday urged the international community to match security funding for Afghanistan with economic and development funding after 2014, when most international – particularly U.S. – forces will leave the country.
New U.S.-Pakistani Supply Accord Seen as Tenuous
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 06 (IPS) - As NATO supply convoys began crossing from Pakistan into Afghanistan for the first time in more than seven months Thursday, analysts here warned that the reopening of the key route does not necessarily signal a new dawn in the fraught relations between Washington and Islamabad.
The Battle for Federalism in Libya's East
- Inter Press Service
BENGHAZI, Libya, Jul 04 (IPS) - With Libya's first election in more than four decades looming, a vocal group of people in the east of the country is far less enthusiastic about this democratic milestone than those in the west.
U.N. Report Links Rwanda to Congolese Violence
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 04 (IPS) - After weeks of delay, the United Nations released Monday its full annex by the U.N. Security Council condemning the Rwandan government for its support of Congolese rebels.
Fishermen Caught on a Political Hook
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Jul 04 (IPS) - “The number will never come to zero and in a few months you will see as many captive fishermen, maybe even more to fill the prison barracks,” says Mohammad Ali Shah of the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF), following the release of more than 300 Indian fishermen from Pakistani jails.
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