Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 288
Opinion: Lack of Trade Finance a Barrier for Developing Countries
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, May 02 (IPS) - Up to 80 percent of global trade is supported by some form of financing or credit insurance. Yet in many countries there is a lack of capacity in the financial sector to support trade, and also a lack of access to the international financial system. Therefore the ability of these countries to use simple instruments such as letters of credit is limited.
Watch What Happens When Tribal Women Manage India’s Forests
- Inter Press Service
NAYAGARH, India, Apr 30 (IPS) - Kama Pradhan, a 35-year-old tribal woman, her eyes intent on the glowing screen of a hand-held GPS device, moves quickly between the trees. Ahead of her, a group of men hastens to clear away the brambles from stone pillars that stand at scattered intervals throughout this dense forest in the Nayagarh district of India's eastern Odisha state.
Nigeria's Anti-Corruption Pledge Resonates in Far-Off Zambia
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Apr 29 (IPS) - Nigeria's president-elect is already making waves with his pledge to attack corruption, starting with the missing 20 billion dollars allegedly swiped from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation during the previous administration.
Anti-Foreigner Discrimination ‘Fostered in South African Schools’
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Apr 28 (IPS) - A practice of denying admission to South African public schools of children without visas or whose parents are refugees from other African countries is creating a foundation for the current rash of xenophobia, critics of the practice say.
Chaos Grows in Burundi as President Defies Advice to Step Down
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Apr 28 (IPS) - Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza, overriding objections to an ill-advised third term, now faces a growing popular movement to oust him after his term ends this coming June.
Cash-Strapped Latin American Countries Turn to China for Credit
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Apr 28 (IPS) - Angolans are generally grateful for China's participation in the reconstruction of their central African country, in spite of the fact that some of the roads and buildings built by Chinese firms are of poor quality, and mainly Chinese labourers have been hired rather than local workers.
New Anti-Terrorism Law Batters Cameroonians Seeking Secession
- Inter Press Service
YAOUNDE, Apr 26 (IPS) - Cameroon's government under President Paul Biya is bearing down on a separatist movement fighting for the rights of a minority English-language region, using as its weapon a sweeping new anti-terrorism law introduced at the end of last year.
Swelling Ethiopian Migration Casts Doubt on its Economic Miracle
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Apr 25 (IPS) - The 28 Ethiopian migrants of Christian faith murdered by the Islamic State (IS) on Apr. 19 in Libya had planned to cross the Mediterranean Sea in search of work in Europe.
Kenyan Pastoralists Protest Wanton Destruction of Indigenous Forest
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Apr 25 (IPS) - Armed with twigs and placards, enraged residents from a semi-pastoral community 360 km north of Kenya's capital, Nairobi, protested this week against wanton destruction of indigenous forest – their alternative source of livelihood.
Planned Mega-Port in Brazil Threatens Rich Ecological Region
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Apr 24 (IPS) - Activists and local residents have brought legal action aimed at blocking the construction of a nearly 50 sq km port terminal in the Northeast Brazilian state of Bahia because of the huge environmental and social impacts it will have.
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