Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 368
Finding Land for Cameroon’s Pastoralist Nomads
- Inter Press Service
NDOP, Cameroon, Oct 16 (IPS) - Adamou Harouna's herd of cattle grazes leisurely on lush green vegetation in Ndop, a small village in Cameroon's North West Region.
With Obama Away, the Chinese Play
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Oct 16 (IPS) - As the U.S. struggles with a weeks-long government shutdown which has threatened the country's economic recovery and forced President Barack Obama to cancel a series of high-stakes visits to Asia, China has instead taken the centre-stage, boosting ties with Asian neighbours and promising multi-billion trade and investment deals.
Money Transfer System Used to Arm Militants in Kenya
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Oct 16 (IPS) - Arms are being transferred from Somalia into Kenya through hawala, an unregulated and traditional Somali transfer system that works with a network of agents, according to immigration officials and hawala brokers here.
Q&A: Mexico and the Rediscovery of South America
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Oct 15 (IPS) - Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, known as the ‘moral leader' of the Mexican left, said that his country and Central America "focus very much on the North" and should make a shift towards South America and its integration processes, in order to achieve less-dependent, alternative development conditions.
Giant Companies Pinpricked by 'Direct Democracy'
- Inter Press Service
ZUG, Switzerland, Oct 15 (IPS) - A Swiss village has decided to reject tax money from the firm Glencore and to instead donate it to charities. Other towns may follow, sending a strong signal to the government to follow the U.S. and the EU and introduce transparency rules for the extractive industry.
Zimbabweans Head Out for a Better Life
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Oct 11 (IPS) - Admire Gumbo, 26, from Harare's Mabvuku high density-suburb, is loathe to leave Zimbabwe to return to Botswana. However, he feels he has no choice but to return to the neighbouring country where he worked for three years as a manual labourer.
Nobel Laureate Fights African Pullout from Global Court
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 10 (IPS) - South Africa's Desmond Tutu, the 1984 Nobel Peace prize laureate, has launched a global campaign to stop African nations from abandoning the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC).
Energy Hits New Rocks in Mongolia
- Inter Press Service
TOV PROVINCE, Mongolia, Oct 10 (IPS) - Mongolia, 90 percent dependent on fuel imports from Russia and vulnerable to price hikes, is seeking to develop its oil shale deposits of at least 800 billion tons.
OP-ED: Why Keeping Girls in School Can Help South Sudan
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Oct 10 (IPS) - Mary K. loved to study and wanted to be an accountant. However, when she was 16 and in class six (grade eight), her father forced her to leave school to marry a 50-year-old man who paid him 60 cows.
Ethiopian Government Choking Muslim Unrest
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Oct 10 (IPS) - The refusal by the Ethiopian government to redress grievances harboured by the Muslim community here, which comprises about 34 percent of the country's 91 million people makes this Horn of African nation vulnerable to extremism.
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