Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 377
Caribbean Economies Battered by Storms
- Inter Press Service
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Aug 19 (IPS) - The Caribbean is in danger of becoming "a region of serial defaulters" with respect to international debt obligations, according to one expert, and this may partly be due to its economies suffering frequent shocks from natural disasters.
Violence Against Civilians Peaks in Central African Republic
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 19 (IPS) - As Michel Djotodia took his oath as the new president of the Central African Republic (CAR) on Aug. 18, Séléka, the coalition of rebel groups that he led and that helped him overthrow the government on Mar. 23, were still looting and killing civilians.
Ecological Cuban Recipes Boost Sustainable Agriculture
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Aug 19 (IPS) - Vilda Figueroa and her husband, José Lama, live in Marianao on the outskirts of Havana, where they share hundreds of recipes based on Cuban-grown foods and sun-drying, along with other ecological food preservation methods.
Opponents of Fracking Seek to Thwart Shale Gas Finance
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Aug 18 (IPS) - Non-governmental organisations are putting pressure on multilateral financial institutions not to finance production of shale gas by hydraulic fracturing or fracking because of the high environmental costs they say are associated with this method.
Crossing Borders with Trade
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG/MBABANE, Aug 18 (IPS) - Experts are agreed that the key to unlocking the economic potential of the Southern African Development Community lies in easing cross-border flows of people, goods, capital and services.
The Role of the State in Developing Countries under Attack from New FTAs
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Aug 17 (IPS) - Two new trade agreements involving the two economic giants, the United States and the European Union, are leading a charge against the role of the state in the economy of developing countries.
Africa’s Largest Hydroelectric Project May Hit the Rocks
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG/LUBUMBASHI, Aug 17 (IPS) - There are big aspirations for Africa's largest hydroelectric project, the Inga III that is set to be built in the Democratic Republic of Congo. But analysts are sceptical that such an ambitious project will ever be realised.
Somali Officials Back Terrorists Against Aid
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Aug 16 (IPS) - Foreign aid workers are increasingly becoming targets of corrupt officials within the Somali government and the Islamist extremist group Al-Shabaab.
Building the Future Enterprise by Enterprise in Rural Peru
- Inter Press Service
QUEQUEÑA, Peru, Aug 15 (IPS) - Women and young people are central players in dozens of small businesses and environmental protection plans that are changing the lives of poor rural families in the Andes highlands of southern Peru.
Tanzanian Traders Seek Rescue From Chinese
- Inter Press Service
DAR ES SALAAM, Aug 15 (IPS) - The Chinese characters boldly painted on a supermarket poster in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam say a lot about the growing influence of China on this east African nation.
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