Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 370
From Toilet to Tap for Water Scarce City
- Inter Press Service
KWAZULU-NATAL, South Africa, Oct 01 (IPS) - In a few years, residents of the eThekwini municipality in the port city of Durban in South Africa could be drinking water that was once flushed down their toilets, as authorities are planning to recycle some of the municipality's sewage and purify it to drinking quality standards.
Egypt Paying a Price for ‘Cheap’ Labour
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Oct 01 (IPS) - Egyptian workers who mobilised during the 2011 uprising that toppled the regime of Hosni Mubarak have used the past two and a half years to organise into unions, press for labour reforms, and strike for better wages and working conditions.
Push for Transparency in U.S.-Mexico Drilling Agreement
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 30 (IPS) - As lawmakers here prepare to take up legislation that would green-light a U.S.-Mexico agreement on oil-and-gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, development and rights groups are urging them to reject a proposal that would exempt involved companies from new disclosure requirements.
/CORRECTED REPEAT/Healthcare Loses Support in Somalia
- Inter Press Service
MOGADISHU, Sep 30 (IPS) - Maryan Yusuf, 39, is weak and barely able to speak because of her excruciating pain. A few hours earlier she delivered a baby at Somalia's Afgooye Hospital, where essential drugs are dwindling at an alarming rate. Weakening Al-Shabaab Finds New Aggression
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Sep 28 (IPS) - Strong action now expected against the al-Shabaab group may well end up strengthening the group rather than weakening it, local people fear. The extremist group is suspected of involvement in the attack on the Westgate mall in Nairobi.
Weakening Al-Shabaab Seeks New Aggression
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Sep 27 (IPS) - Strong action now expected against the al-Shabaab group may well end up strengthening the group rather than weakening it, local people fear. The extremist group is suspected of involvement in the attack on the Westgate mall in Nairobi.
Sudan's "Wanted" President Skips U.N. General Assembly
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 26 (IPS) - Sudan's beleaguered president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who threatened to visit the United Nations despite an arrest warrant for war crimes, has backed out at the 59th minute of the eleventh hour.
Bloody Days in Sudan
- Inter Press Service
KHARTOUM, Sep 26 (IPS) - Activists claim that more than one hundred people have been killed and thousands injured during demonstrations in Sudan following the removal of fuel subsidies.
Baka Pygmies Drink Up Their Voting Rights
- Inter Press Service
YAOUNDÉ, Sep 26 (IPS) - When Daniel Mgwape, a Baka man in Mindourou of the East Region of Cameroon, felt like drinking local liquor commonly called ‘kitoko', he simply took his biometric voter ID card to the village bar tender.
Sunshine Gets Slowly More Energetic in Zimbabwe
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Sep 26 (IPS) - On top of a small wooden cabin in Norton, a dormitory town outside the capital of Zimbabwe, is a solar panel that Silvester Ngunzi uses to light up his household.
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