Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 369
Somalis Caught Between Terrorism and a Border Dispute
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Oct 08 (IPS) - Somali militia groups are beginning to operate in Kenya's remote and arid North Eastern Province, an area that borders southern Somalia – a former stronghold of the extremist group Al-Shabaab.
Pacific Pact – a Minefield for Health Care
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Oct 08 (IPS) - The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), the negotiation of which is set to conclude this year, could drive research into new drugs and improve access to medicines. Except – it won't.
Risk Management Can Ease Poverty, World Bank Says
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 07 (IPS) - Successful risk management can be a powerful tool for development, the World Bank said Monday in its annual World Development Report (WDR).
Q&A: You Are One Percent Away from Being a Bonobo
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Oct 04 (IPS) - When author Deni Béchard discovered bonobos shared almost 99 percent of human DNA, and based their relationships on cooperation and collaboration, he knew he had to write about them.
Africa's Growth Story Brightens
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Oct 04 (IPS) - Not far from the headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in Ethiopia's capital city of Addis Ababa, a young woman named Bosena, 25, sits on the side of a busy road with a baby in her arms.
Somalia Takes Teaching to the Extreme
- Inter Press Service
MOGADISHU, Oct 04 (IPS) - Mukhatar Jama has been teaching at a secondary school in Mogadishu for the past decade. Religious education is part and parcel of the curriculum of all schools in Somalia, but he says most parents are unaware of exactly what their children are being taught – a radical form of Islam.
Q&A: "Guinea Bissau Is Dangerously Close to Becoming a Failed State”
- Inter Press Service
LISBON, Oct 02 (IPS) - Guinea Bissau is "close to becoming a failed state," but not due to ethnic or religious violence, which has never existed in that small West African nation, argues Nobel Peace laureate and United Nations envoy José Manuel Ramos-Horta.
Ugandan Women Put On Their Boxing Gloves
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA?, Oct 02 (IPS) - Helen Baleke took up boxing at 16, after she was attacked by a man in Kampala's Katanga slum. But the beating turned her into what she is today – one of only several female Ugandan amateur boxers.
U.S.-Africa Trade Mostly Benefits Oil, Textiles
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 01 (IPS) - With a key U.S.-Africa trade agreement up for renewal in 2015, advocates on all sides of the issue say current policies are rife with shortcomings that leave many African businesses out in the cold.
WTO: Stingy with the Poor, Generous with the Rich
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Oct 01 (IPS) - A fight taking place in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations towards the Bali Ministerial Conference shows how the rules on agriculture allow developed countries to continue to shell out huge subsidies while penalising farmers in developing countries.
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