Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 341
Born Free, and Disinterested
- Inter Press Service
CAPE TOWN, May 05 (IPS) - South Africa's May 7 elections mark the first time in democratic history that those born into Nelson Mandela's post-apartheid ‘Rainbow Nation' can vote.
Disabled Forced Into Labour in Zimbabwe
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, May 05 (IPS) - Workers Day on May 1 came and went, but it's only a day like any other for disabled 31-year-old street vendor Tsitsi Chikosha making a living selling goods from a makeshift table in downtown Harare.
Calls to Legalise Tanzania’s Charcoal Trade to Save Forests
- Inter Press Service
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Apr 30 (IPS) - Tanzania's government has been urged to embrace sustainable charcoal production to protect the country's forest cover amidst failed attempts to abolish the local charcoal trade.
DR Congo’s Red Light to Invention
- Inter Press Service
GOMA, DR Congo, Apr 30 (IPS) - "There are several robots in the world, but that one which regulates traffic is made in Congo," Thérèse Izayi, a female engineer and the Congolese inventor of two very unusual traffic signals, tells IPS.
Kenya’s Nationwide Clampdown on Islamic Extremism ‘Counterproductive’
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Apr 29 (IPS) - Kenya's government was warned by Muslim clerics about the radicalisation and recruitment of youths by Al-Shabaab six years ago but did not take action, says Sheikh Ahmed, a management committee member of the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya.
Villages in Ghana that No Longer Have Child Deaths to Record
- Inter Press Service
ZANDUA, Ghana, Apr 29 (IPS) - Zainab Abubakar saves children's lives. A few years ago she was just an ordinary woman with no medical training living in rural Kpilo in Ghana's Northern Region.
Going Beyond the Arms Trade Treaty to Secure Peace in Africa
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 25 (IPS) - Even as countries around the world have started to sign on to and ratify a landmark international treaty that would for the first time regulate the international trade in conventional weapons, experts here are warning that the treaty in itself will not be able to maintain peace and security in Africa.
Q&A: Investment and Research Key to Resilient African Agriculture
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Apr 25 (IPS) - There is urgent need to increase the proportion of climate finance for adaptation in Africa by increasing public sector budgets for agriculture and exploring partnerships with the private sector.
Chilean Tax Reform Shifts Toward Income Redistribution
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Apr 24 (IPS) - Chilean President Michelle Bachelet's proposed tax reform is seen as the cornerstone of her ambitious social programme and a sign of a new shift in fiscal policy towards redistribution of income.
Violence in South Sudan at a Savage Turning Point
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 24 (IPS) - After a week that saw a massacre inside a U.N. base and wide-scale ethnic-based slaughter in an oil-producing region, the international community is grappling with what, if any, options remain to save lives in South Sudan.
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