Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 352
Philippines Makes Tentative Truce With Islamists
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Feb 10 (IPS) - After two years of intensive negotiations, the Philippine government and the country's largest rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), have signed a final peace agreement, which paves the way for a lasting resolution of one of the world's longest-running intra-state conflicts.
Kenya’s Empty Bread Basket
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Feb 10 (IPS) - Jane Njeri from the semi-arid lower Mukurweini district in Kenya's Central Province has taken to boiling wild roots to feed her five children.
Poverty Wages Unraveling Cambodia’s Garment Industry
- Inter Press Service
, Feb 06 (IPS) - Cambodia's garment industry is regularly plagued with strikes and protests. But when armed security forces opened fire on striking workers in the capital city of Phnom Penh on Jan. 3, killing five and injuring dozens, it suddenly became clear that this was not just another protest.
Economic Crisis in Mali’s North as the South Recovers
- Inter Press Service
BAMAKO, Feb 06 (IPS) - Under the harsh Sunday afternoon sun, Daouda Dicko washes his client's clothes on the shore of the Niger River, which runs through Mali's capital, Bamako. "I started doing this to survive two years ago. Now, I am used to it and I don't mind the extra money it brings," Dicko, who also works as a gardener, tells IPS.
The Ugandan Traffic App to Tackle Corruption
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Feb 05 (IPS) - There's the good: "A slight delay of about a minute."
The bad: "Terrible jam!!"
And the unbelievable: "No jam." But as long as Kampala motorists and pedestrians are talking traffic, the eight Ugandan creators of new app called RoadConexion, are happy. For the time being, anyway.
Not Enough Money to Bring Peace to CAR
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Feb 04 (IPS) - There are growing concerns that the massive funding crisis for peacekeeping operations in the Central African Republic (CAR) will jeopardise any prospect of restoring stability to the country.
Chileans, Peruvians Unperturbed by State Conflicts
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Feb 03 (IPS) - Juan González and Luis Monsalve come from different backgrounds, but have much in common. González, a 40-year-old Peruvian migrant who has lived for the past eight years in Santiago, and Monsalve, a 63-year-old Chilean, agree that border conflicts never benefit ordinary people.
Protesters Resist an ‘Indian Fukushima’
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Feb 01 (IPS) - Activists opposed to India's plans to massively increase civilian nuclear power production are aghast that a plan for an Indo-Japanese nuclear cooperation deal is gaining pace even while Japan is struggling to cope with the fallout of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Greater Transparency Urged for U.N.'s South Sudan Mission
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 01 (IPS) - As South Sudan's fragile ceasefire threatens to unravel, human rights groups are calling on the U.N.'s mission there to make public its human rights reporting, a step they say will help lay the groundwork for reconciliation that never took place following independence in 2011.
Mali’s Displaced Still Have Nothing To Return To
- Inter Press Service
BAMAKO, Jan 31 (IPS) - In her traditional orange headdress, Agaichetou Toure sits quietly in a waiting room in Kalaban-Koura, a popular neighbourhood on the outskirts of Mali's capital Bamako.
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