Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 100
Key Pillars Mostly in Place to Speed up Africa's Free Trade in 2022
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 19 (IPS) - The official start of free trading under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) in January 2021 moved a major continental aspiration closer to reality.
Adolescents Left Behind Global AIDS Response - Experts Experts
- Inter Press Service
Nairobi, Kenya, Jan 18 (IPS) - The ominous warning came in 2019 through an anonymous message on her mobile phone to stay away from a man she met on social media.
Somalia on the Path to Recovery, but Real Challenges Remain
- Inter Press Service
MOGADISHU, Somalia, Jan 18 (IPS) - I arrived in Somalia in September 2019, two decades after having worked here previously. I knew that I was taking up a challenging assignment, but I was also looking forward to seeing Somalia’s progress.
Kenyan Domestic Workers’ Doomed Voyage to the Gulf
- Inter Press Service
Nairobi, Kenya, Jan 14 (IPS) - Distress calls from vulnerable Kenyan women in Saudi Arabia experiencing mistreatment and torture at the hands of their employers went from 88 in 2019/2020 to 1,025 just one year later.
China Opens Embassy in Nicaragua for First Time since 1990 after Taiwan Ties Cut
- Inter Press Service
AUSTRALIA, Jan 10 (IPS) - For the first time since 1990, China has (re)opened an embassy in Managua, Nicaragua, less than a month after Nicaragua cut ties with Taiwan. The (re)opening of the embassy on January 1, 2022 comes amidst the backdrop of US-China tensions, particularly over trade and Taiwan, as well as worsening Cross-Straits relations.
Clean Water, Decent Toilets, Hygiene Challenge for Southern African Community
- Inter Press Service
Blantyre, Malawi, Jan 10 (IPS) - The toilets in the maternity wing of Namatapa Health Centre in the populous Bangwe Township in Blantyre, Malawi’s commercial city, fell into disrepair a few years ago. So, pregnant women who come to deliver their babies and their guardians use two pit latrines.
How Place of Birth Shapes Chances of Going to University
- Inter Press Service
Jan 10 (IPS) - Many newly independent African countries in the 1960s inherited regional and ethnic inequalities in formal educational attainment. These new states bound together sub-national regions of diverse ethnic and religious communities. The regions differed in their exposure to missionary activity – the main vector in the spread of formal western education in the colonial era.
Underfunded and Deadly Tuberculosis Needs its Own Bill Gates
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Jan 07 (IPS) - Global efforts to end tuberculosis (TB) are futile without dedicated investment in research into the debilitating disease that is killing 4000 people a day, Stop TB Partnership warns.
Free at Last: Trafficked Woman's Story a Warning to Other Vulnerable Job Seekers
- Inter Press Service
KIGALI, Rwanda, Jan 05 (IPS) - When Kamikazi* from Gisagara, a district in Southern Rwanda, was forced to quit her job due to COVID-19 last year, she desperately sought other employment.
Truth as War Causality? The Case of Ethiopia
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, Jan 05 (IPS) - A brutal drama is unfolding in Ethiopia and it is difficult to find straightforward accounts of what is happening there. However, this does not prevent people from taking a unilateral stand for either of the factions involved in the disaster.
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