Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 365
Libya’s Berbers Close the Tap
- Inter Press Service
ZWARA, Libya, Nov 09 (IPS) - "Oil tankers won´t get crude from this port until Tripoli finally meets our demands," says Younis, one of the Amazigh rebels today blocking one of Libya´s largest gas and crude oil plants.
A Shortage of ARVs and a Surplus of Stigma in Côte d’Ivoire
- Inter Press Service
ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, Nov 08 (IPS) - At the Cocody-Anono community health centre, south-east of the Ivorian economic capital of Abidjan, Bertine Bahi* regularly attends awareness sessions on Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) for women living with HIV.
U.S. a Favourite Roost of Vulture Funds
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 07 (IPS) - Aggressive creditors and investors are seriously undermining the ability of poor countries to deal sustainably with debt issues, academics and anti-poverty campaigners told a briefing at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.
Uganda Needs to Exploit its Own Mineral Riches
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA?, Nov 07 (IPS) - This year, as Uganda gears up to start producing the nearly two billion barrels in oil reserves that were discovered near its western border, critics say that little is being done to exploit the rich mineral resources located in some of the country's poorest areas.
Dwindling Aid Slows Sri Lanka
- Inter Press Service
KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka, Nov 07 (IPS) - When the first trains in almost two and a half decades started running through this war-ravaged town in Sri Lanka in mid-September, Sinngamuththu Jesudasan could not resist the temptation to go and have a look - repeatedly.
OP-ED: Act Now, Act Big to End Sexual Violence in DRC
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 06 (IPS) - Imagine an orphanage where over 300 children born out of rape have been abandoned because of the shame and stigma associated with sexual violence. Imagine a town where, in the last year, 11 infants between the ages of 6 months and 1 year, and 59 small children from 1 to 3 years old, have been raped.
Uruguay Keen to Become Regional Logistics Hub
- Inter Press Service
MONTEVIDEO, Nov 06 (IPS) - The small South American country of Uruguay could become a major logistics hub in the Southern Cone due to the deepwater port that the government is planning to build in a tourist area on the Atlantic ocean.
Cuba, a Window to the Outside
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Nov 06 (IPS) - For the Cuban economy, the year 2014 is set to start with the opening of the first installations in the Special Economic Development Zone in the upgraded Mariel port, 70 km west of Havana.
Insuring Cows and Goats Improves Kenyan Lives
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Nov 06 (IPS) - "That is the sound I love the most in the whole world," Hussein Ahmed says as the bells tied to his cattle begin clink as they return home. Ahmed, a pastoralist in Marsabit district in arid and semi-arid northern Kenya, lost all his animals in 2011 during one of the worst droughts in the region for over 60 years.
South America - From Granary to Megaprojects for the World
- Inter Press Service
BELÉM, Brazil, Nov 05 (IPS) - South America has gone from the world's granary to the site of innumerable international infrastructure, energy and mining megaprojects. It is now facing a new dilemma: bolstering the economy with the promise of reducing inequality, in exchange for social and environmental costs that are taking their toll.
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