Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 363
Creating a New Norm in Non-Circumcising Ethiopian Province
- Inter Press Service
GAMBELLA, Ethiopia, Nov 25 (IPS) - Chiang Both from Gambella, a remote and a traditionally non-circumcising province in Ethiopia that borders Sudan, volunteered to undergo the procedure despite his community's initial mistrust.
Big Coal Angles For a Slice of Climate Finance Pie
- Inter Press Service
WARSAW, Nov 22 (IPS) - Power generation is a major contributor to the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. Choosing the right options for less-polluting energy sources in the future is a vital question – in which energy-starved Africa has a keen interest.
Storm Brews at U.N. Climate Talks
- Inter Press Service
WARSAW, Nov 21 (IPS) - Hundreds of representatives from various NGOs walked out of the negotiating rooms at the United Nations climate talks in Poland on Thursday in protest against the reluctance by developed nations to commit towards achieving a global climate treaty.
Fear of HIV Testing Among Zimbabwe’s Teens
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Nov 21 (IPS) - Seventeen-year-old Natalie Mlambo* has two good reasons to get tested for HIV. She has two boyfriends and has unprotected sex with them. One is a high school classmate. The other is older, works in a bank, and can afford to give Mlambo small gifts and some money.
Malawi’s Failed Subsidy Programme Left Millions to Starve
- Inter Press Service
LILONGWE, Nov 20 (IPS) - Gogo Munthali, from Rumphi, a village over 400 km north of Malawi's capital Lilongwe, dissolves into tears every morning as she worries about what to feed her five orphaned grandchildren, the youngest of whom has full blown AIDS.
Grappling to Give Uganda’s Fistula Patients Dignity
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA?, Nov 19 (IPS) - Ever since giving birth to a stillborn baby 15 years ago, Mary*, a peasant farmer living in Mubende District, central Uganda, has continuously leaked urine.
Côte d’Ivoire Poised at a Development Crossroad
- Inter Press Service
ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, Nov 18 (IPS) - All over the Ivorian economic capital, Abidjan, large cranes, involved in the construction of new buildings and highways, are dotted across the city skyline.
OP-ED: Malawi’s Constitution Clear on Gay Rights but Politicians Aren’t
- Inter Press Service
LILONGWE, Nov 17 (IPS) - Are Malawians, apparently, overwhelmingly prejudiced against homosexuality? And what does it signal when politicians call for a referendum on the issue of homosexuality?
Indonesia’s Forest Communities Victims of 'Legal Land Grabs'
- Inter Press Service
JAKARTA, Nov 15 (IPS) - Indonesia's rainforests are facing "legal land grabs", allege NGOs. Its ancient communities are finding that their ancestral lands are slipping into the hands of foreign companies for oil palm cultivation, as demand for the product grows in Europe, India and China.
Concerns Over Role of Cooperates at Climate Talks
- Inter Press Service
WARSAW, Nov 15 (IPS) - As deliberations continue in earnest at the 19th United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Warsaw, negotiators from the Global South welcome a focus on financing adaptation – but reject a new emphasis on a role for the private sector.
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