Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 260
Eight Cooperation Accords Strengthen Ties between Colombia and UAE
- Inter Press Service
BOGOTÃ, Feb 10 (IPS) - "I am honoured to be in Colombia at a time when important steps towards peace are being taken," the foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, said after meeting with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos.
Rural youth can be tomorrow’s entrepreneurs
- Inter Press Service
Ibadan, Nigeria, Feb 09 (IPS) - Bolstering widespread prosperity in Africa is a key necessity if the world is to achieve its commitments to eradicate poverty and hunger by 2030.
Argentina and United Arab Emirates Open New Stage in Bilateral Relations
- Inter Press Service
, Feb 05 (IPS) - With United Arab Emirates' foreign minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan's visit to Argentina, the two countries launched a new stage in bilateral relations, kicked off by high-level meetings and a package of accords.
Press crackdown is likely to worsen
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Uganda, Feb 05 (IPS) - On October 2015, the day that Ugandan journalist Enoch Matovu, 25, was allegedly shot by the police for simply "doing my job", the police had "run out of tear gas", he claimed.
Cameron at large: Want Not to Become a Terrorist? Speak Fluent English!
- Inter Press Service
Cairo, Feb 04 (IPS) - "Do you speak English fluently? No? Then you risk to become a terrorist!." IPS posed this dilemma to some young Muslim women living in Cairo, while explaining that this appears to be UK prime minister David Cameron's formula to judge the level of Muslim women's risk to fall, passively, into the horrific trap of extremism.
Women’s Empowerment Will Accelerate Kenya’s Economic Prosperity
- Inter Press Service
Nairobi, Kenya, Feb 03 (IPS) - When President Barack Obama made his first visit to Kenya as US President in July 2015, one of the poignant messages he left was an exhortation for communities to shun cultures that degrade women and girls.
Rabbit Farming Now a Big Hit in Zimbabwe
- Inter Press Service
CHIVHU, Zimbabwe, Feb 02 (IPS) - Tichaona Muzariri, 44, a villager based at Range in Chivhu, a town 143 kilometers south of Harare, the Zimbabwean capital, quit his job as a teacher in 2009 to start a rabbit farm on a small scale with three does (female rabbits) and one buck (male). With around US$30 as capital, Muzariri waded into rabbit farming back then. Today, his rabbit farm breeds nearly 3,000 rabbits every year and slaughters up to 120 every week for sale to grocery stores, restaurants and hotels.
TPP: Lessons from New Zealand
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Feb 02 (IPS) - A new paper* on the implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement for New Zealand examines key economic issues likely to be impacted by this trade agreement. It is remarkable how little TPP brings to the table. NZ's gross domestic product will grow by 47 per cent by 2030 without the TPP, or by 47.9 per cent with the TPP. Even that small benefit is an exaggeration, as the modelling makes dubious assumptions, and the real benefits will be even smaller. If the full costs are included, net economic benefits to the NZ economy are doubtful. The gains from tariff reductions are less than a quarter of the projected benefits according to official NZ government modelling. Although most of the projected benefits result from reducing non-tariff barriers (NTBs), the projections rely on inadequate and dubious information that does not even identify the NTBs that would be reduced by the TPP!
Ebola Recovery Funds Impossible to Track, Says New Study
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 01 (IPS) - When the Ebola epidemic devastated three West African countries – Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea two years ago – the international community responded with pledges of over $5.8 billion in funds to fight the disease which has killed over 11,300 people.
United Arab Emirates Strengthens Ties with Argentina’s New Government
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Feb 01 (IPS) - The new government of Argentina and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are strengthening the relationship established by the previous administration, at a time when this South American country is seeking to bring in foreign exchange, build up its international reserves and draw investment, in what the authorities describe as a new era of openness to the world.
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