Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 330
Defying the Ebola Odds in Sierra Leone
- Inter Press Service
KENEMA, Sierra Leone, Jul 12 (IPS) - Adikali Kamara is a 36-year-old student nurse working in the government hospital in Kenema, a sprawling town on the fringe of the Sierra Leone's Gola tropical rain forest.
Mechanical Pumps Turning Oases into Mirages
- Inter Press Service
BAHARIYA OASIS, Egypt, Jul 12 (IPS) - Using a hoe, farmer Atef Sayyid removes an earthen plug in an irrigation stream, allowing water to spill onto the parcel of land where he grows dates, olives and almonds.
New BRICS Monetary Fund May Reproduce Inequalities
- Inter Press Service
FORTALEZA, Brazil, Jul 12 (IPS) - The first common institutions to be set up by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – the BRICS – are financial, and have arisen as a result of reforms to an international system that continues to largely ignore the growing influence of emerging countries.
Future of Rwanda’s Orphans Still Uncertain
- Inter Press Service
KIGALI, Jul 11 (IPS) - Every day, 14-year-old Deborah wakes up in an orphanage, goes to school, and comes home to an orphanage. It does not matter when or for how long she leaves the orphanage, she always knows she'll be back.
OPINION: Unleashing African Young People’s Potential
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Jul 10 (IPS) - An African proverb says "a child that we refuse to build today will end up selling the house that we may build tomorrow."
Shea Harvesting Good for Income, Bad for the Environment in Ghana
- Inter Press Service
TAMALE, Ghana, Jul 10 (IPS) - The shea tree, a traditional African food plant, represents a major source of income for women in Ghana's Northern, Upper West and Upper East regions, but they are helping to destroy the very resource that gives them money by cutting it down to produce charcoal.
Zimbabwean Girls Venture into Technological Innovation
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Jul 10 (IPS) - For 22-year-old Moselyn Muchena, a final year computer science student at the University of Zimbabwe, it seemed obvious to create a mobile application offering easy access to services in the local catering industry, largely because of the huge number of female entrepreneurs in that sector.
Greek Privatisation of Key Sectors Meets Strong Opposition
- Inter Press Service
ATHENS, Jul 09 (IPS) - Plans by the Greek government to sell companies that handle the key resources of energy and water face serious obstacles and its policy to offer investors exceptional privileges in an effort to boost interest in privatisation is coming under strong pressure.
World's Poorest Nations Seek Presence in Post-2015 Agenda
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 08 (IPS) - The 48 least developed countries (LDCs), described as the poorest of the world's poor, want to be an integral part of the U.N.'s post-2015 development agenda currently under discussion.
The Silent Power of Boycotts to Blockades
- Inter Press Service
CAPE TOWN, Jul 08 (IPS) - Peruse a few reports on global military expenditure and you will not be able to shake the image of the planet as one massive army camp, patrolled by heavily weaponised guards in a plethora of uniforms.
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