Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 340
South Sudan, Where Livestock Outnumbers People and the Environment Suffers
- Inter Press Service
JUBA, May 12 (IPS) - Twenty-year-old Wani Lo Keji stares at the sky as his herd of cattle drink water from the eastern bank of the Nile River, just opposite South Sudan's capital, Juba.
Zimbabwe’s Emerging Tobacco Queens
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, May 11 (IPS) - Madeline Murambwi sits behind the wheel of her brand new Toyota Land Cruiser, threading her way through the traffic in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare. She's on her way back from the tobacco auction floors where she just pocketed thousands of dollars.
Ivorians Learn to Save Chimpanzees and Last Intact Tropical Rainforest in West Africa by Exploiting it — for Tourism
- Inter Press Service
TAI NATIONAL PARK, Côte d’Ivoire, May 09 (IPS) - Jonas Sanhin Touan has big dreams. As he sits under a canopy, he greets the rare tourist to Gouleako, one of the many villages near the entrance of Côte d'Ivoire's Taï National Park, with a meal.
Nigeria Abductions Grab the Spotlight
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 09 (IPS) - The fate of more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by the violent Islamist Boko Haram group from the northern Nigeria town of Chibok in mid-April has become something of a public sensation in the United States since the beginning of the month.
The 4th Century Art that Died Out Across the World and the Ethiopian Scribes Trying to Preserve it
- Inter Press Service
DEBRE LIBANOS, Ethiopia, May 08 (IPS) - Misganew Andeurgay changes his bamboo-made pen for another, dips it in a tiny pot of viscous liquid and, on a parchment page filled with black script, begins to trace in scarlet-red ink the Amharic word for god.
ARVs a Bitter Pill to Swallow for Ugandan Children
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, May 07 (IPS) - Every morning at six a.m. before he goes to school, and every night at six p.m. after he gets home from school, Emmanuel, 11, knows what he must do: take his antiretroviral pills.
Vaccinating Against Their Will
- Inter Press Service
YAOUNDÉ, May 07 (IPS) - The growing number of child deaths from diarrhoea in Cameroon has necessitated the introduction of a new vaccine (RotaTeq) designed to protect babies under five against common types of rotaviruses that cause diarrhoea. But growing skepticism over new vaccines, and lack of potable water and proper hygiene could thwart such public health efforts, experts say.
OP-ED: We Must Stand Up in Defence of Nigeria's Abducted Schoolgirls
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 07 (IPS) - Today more than 200 schoolgirls will wake up to another day in an unthinkable nightmare. Three weeks ago, they were seized in the night by armed men dressed as soldiers who said they were there to protect them.
Community Electricity Lights Up Spain
- Inter Press Service
MÃLAGA, Spain, May 06 (IPS) - Until recently it was inconceivable for small groups of organised citizens in fully electrified industrialised countries like Spain to generate their own power from clean sources of energy, challenging the prevailing energy model.
Piping the Waters of Southern Chile to the Thirsty North
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, May 05 (IPS) - Three private sector initiatives are aimed at carrying water from the rivers in southern Chile to the arid north of the country by ship or through underwater or underground pipelines. The objective is to slake the thirst of the mining industry of this country, the world's largest producer of copper.
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