Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 332
Carving the Path to “Gold” in Latin America
- Inter Press Service
Water, Rivers and Runoff Challenge Ethiopia’s Expanding Capital
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Jul 01 (IPS) - The streets of Addis Ababa are increasingly turning into water-logged obstacle courses as downpours increase in the run up to Ethiopia's July to September rainy season. Strangers link hands to steady themselves as they step high and gingerly over the spreading puddles and slippery mud.
Looking to Africa’s LDCs to Learn How to Save the Lives of Millions of Mothers and their Babies
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Jun 30 (IPS) - Every year, three million newborn babies and almost 6.6 million children under five die globally, but if the rest of the world looked towards the examples of two of Africa's least-developed countries (LDCs), Rwanda and Ethiopia, they would perhaps be able to save these children.
Trekking with Ethiopia’s Nomads, from Watering Holes to Pasture Lands, For a Better Life
- Inter Press Service
SOMALI REGION, Ethiopia, Jun 30 (IPS) - When he was a young boy, 20-year-old Abdi, who comes from a small pastoralist community in Ethiopia's Somali Region, "knew about school, reading and writing but did not expect this is something we would ever get close to."
Zambian Churches Slow to Use 'Considerable Socio-political Influence' to Fight for Climate Justice
- Inter Press Service
LUSAKA, Jun 29 (IPS) - It seems that churches in Zambia are becoming more pragmatic in their approach by advocating for better policies and training of vulnerable communities on climate change adaptation mechanisms.
No Limits to Shale Gas Chemicals in Mexico
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Jun 28 (IPS) - The new legal framework for Mexico's oil industry has not placed controls on the use of harmful chemicals in the extraction of unconventional fossil fuels, and environmentalists and experts fear their consumption will increase in an industry that is opening up to private capital.
Violence Casts Shadow Over ‘Himalayan Viagra’ Harvest in Nepal
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Jun 27 (IPS) - Intense competition during harvest season for a fungus dubbed ‘Himalayan Viagra' – coveted for its legendary aphrodisiac qualities – has sparked violence in Nepal's remote western mountains, causing concern among security officials here about the safety of more than 100,000 harvesters.
Community Resilience Tops U.N.’s Disaster Relief Agenda
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Jun 26 (IPS) - The Bangkok Declaration on Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia and the Pacific adopted at the close of the 6th Asian Ministerial Conference On Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR) here today emphasised community-based solutions, and reflects a growing global desire to focus more on grassroots actions in the face of catastrophic climate change.
Zimbabwe’s Unfolding Humanitarian Disaster - We Visit the 18,000 Forcibly Relocated to Ruling Party Farm
- Inter Press Service
MASVINGO, Zimbabwe, Jun 25 (IPS) - As the villagers sit around the flickering fire on a pitch-black night lit only by the blurry moon, they speak, recounting how it all began.
They take turns, sometimes talking over each other to have their own experiences heard. When the old man speaks, everyone listens. "It was my first time riding a helicopter," John Moyo* remembers.
Liberia's Poor and the Rising Sea
- Inter Press Service
MONROVIA, Jun 25 (IPS) - Mary B owned a shop in West Point, Monrovia's densely-populated slum community, where she sold liquor just few yards away from the sea. But last month, the ocean left her homeless and without a business because the devastating erosion of the coastline has resulted in most of the land eroding into the Atlantic Ocean with thousands of homes being washed away by the encroaching sea.
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