Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 372
Ghana’s Growing Economy Fails to Create Jobs
- Inter Press Service
ACCRA, Sep 19 (IPS) - Ghana's economy registered 7.1 percent growth last year but 23-year-old Jennifer Esi Avemee has had difficulty securing a permanent job since graduating in 2011. "It's very stressful," she laments. "It's very hard to sustain yourself."
Wanted for War Crimes, Sudan's President Threatens U.N. Appearance
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 18 (IPS) - Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, accused of war crimes and genocide in the politically-troubled Darfur region, is apparently planning to visit New York and address the U.N. General Assembly next week.
Credit Rating Reform Overlooks Developing World
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 18 (IPS) - The concerns of developing countries about credit rating agencies (CRAs) risk going unheard as regulatory bodies around the world tackle questions raised after the 2008 financial crisis.
Nigerians Uncertain of Future in Bakassi Peninsula
- Inter Press Service
BAKASSI PENINSULA, Cameroon, Sep 18 (IPS) - Thomas Effiom, a 35-year old fisher in Jabane, a small locality in Cameroon's Bakassi Peninsula, scoops off floodwaters from the muddy floor of his house. It is a ritual he performs each time the Atlantic Ocean overflows.
Kenyans Seek Justice as ICC Case Falters
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Sep 17 (IPS) - As Kenya's deputy president William Ruto and co-accused journalist Joshua Sang resumed their trial for crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday, Sept. 17, many in this East African nation were debating if the trial will continue to its end as four more witnesses withdrew from testifying on Sept. 15.
Teaching Forest Communities How to Live with REDD
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA?, Sep 17 (IPS) - As the ink dries on a 3.6 million dollar agreement between Uganda and the World Bank to support the country's preparations for REDD, some analysts are pessimistic over the mechanism's potential.
Proposed Global Accord Called a Disaster for Public Services
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 17 (IPS) - Nearly 350 international civil society organisations are urging countries taking part in new negotiations towards an agreement on "trade in services" to abandon the effort, warning that the accord would negatively impact on universal access to and national regulation of public services.
“The Oil Is Ours” – But Its Secrets Are the NSA’s
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 16 (IPS) - Reported U.S. spying on Brazil's Petrobras oil firm revived the controversy over opening up the company, a symbol of Brazilian sovereignty since the 1950s, to foreign investment.
Argentina's Imports Climb Despite State Controls
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Sep 16 (IPS) - To maintain its trade surplus, Argentina continues to control imports – a strategy that has bolstered its national industry but is questioned by importers, partners in the Mercosur trade bloc, and rich countries.
Scarcity Reveals an Inaccessible Excess
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Sep 15 (IPS) - For decades Zakayo Ekeno has walked Turkana County's arid land, herding his livestock, and his father's before that. Yet nothing about the persistently drought-stricken land in northern Kenya could have given him an indication of the wealth beneath it.
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