Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 348
U.S. Oil Firm Creates Tension over Western Sahara
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 11 (IPS) - Even as U.S. and Moroccan executives meet to discuss strengthening private sector ties between the two countries, advocacy groups are raising concerns about plans by a U.S. energy firm to explore for oil in the contested territory known as Western Sahara.
Russian Arms to Egypt Threaten to Undermine U.S. in Mideast
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 11 (IPS) - Russia, which is at loggerheads with Washington over the spreading political crisis in Ukraine, is threatening to undermine a longstanding military relationship between the United States and one of its traditional allies in the Middle East: Egypt.
Justice Breakdown Blamed for South Africa's Rising Mob Justice
- Inter Press Service
CAPE TOWN, Mar 11 (IPS) - Margaret Feke* got off a taxi in Khayelitsha, a township in Cape Town, South Africa, carrying a package of new clothes for her son who was due to leave for his traditional initiation into manhood in the Transkei the following day.
Sea Swallows the Stories of Africans Drowned at Ceuta
- Inter Press Service
MALAGA, Spain, Mar 10 (IPS) - "Who will speak for them now? Who will tell their stories to their families in Cameroon or Ivory Coast?" asked Edmund Okeke, a Nigerian, about the 16 migrants who died while trying to swim to the shore of the Spanish city of Ceuta from Morocco.
What We Can Learn from Child Soldiers
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 10 (IPS) - In 2003, Moses Otiti, a 15-year-old from Uganda, was walking in a group with his father when members of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) ambushed them.
A Matter of Life and Death
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Mar 09 (IPS) - If you or some family members or friends suffer from cancer, hepatitis, AIDS, asthma or other serious ailments, it's worth your while to follow the negotiations on the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement and other similar bilateral trade agreements.
Women Turn Potatoes into Gold in Zimbabwe’s Cities
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Mar 09 (IPS) - Shyline Chipfika, 26, is one of thousands of Zimbabwean women in urban centres who have struck gold by growing potatoes. And a lot of their success has to do with an import ban.
Congress Pressured on Multinational Corporate Accountability
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 08 (IPS) - Advocacy and accountability groups are urging the U.S. Congress to enact new mechanisms that would allow it to hold multinational corporations accountable for rights infringements abroad.
Dangerous Combo: Violence in Pregnancy and HIV in South Africa
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Mar 07 (IPS) - When Phumzile Khoza* came to the central Johannesburg antenatal clinic on a chilly day in August 2013, she was feeling on edge. Not about the medical procedures – she already had two children – but about talking to the nurse.
Tahrir Square Finds a GrEEK Neighbour
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Mar 07 (IPS) - The group of buildings near Tahrir Square could be modern campus-style office space anywhere. It's hard to believe that just outside the heavy steel gates lies downtown Cairo, the noisy, polluted and now troubled heart of Egypt.
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