Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 383
Southern African Trade Talks Stall, and the Clock Ticks
- Inter Press Service
WINDHOEK, Jul 19 (IPS) - Southern Africa has to settle in for another round of negotiations after talks on Economic Partnership Agreements failed to produce results in June, bringing countries closer to losing access to the lucrative European Union market.
Economists’ Fantasies, Planetary Nightmares
- Inter Press Service
ST. AUGUSTINE, Florida, Jul 19 (IPS) - While debating a high frequency trader recently, I encountered the familiar rationalisations that high frequency trading (HFT) contributes to liquidity and price discovery in markets. Assertions about liquidity are hard to justify after the "flash crash" of May 6, 2010, where the "faux liquidity" of HFT disappeared when needed and the traditional market-making obligations of the old specialists were absent.
Japan’s Uneven Conservation Efforts
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, Jul 18 (IPS) - Efforts to protect the critically endangered Iriomote wildcat, a spotted, shy, feral creature native to the tiny Iriomote Island that forms part of the Okinawa Prefecture in southern Japan, are becoming a highly respected model of conservation here, where the government's uneven track record in protecting imperiled species has frustrated wildlife activists for decades.
In Search of a New Pan-Africanism
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 18 (IPS) - Bridging the gap between Pan-Africanism and the African Renaissance has been a top priority for the African Union (AU).
Insuring Ghana’s Smallholder Farmers Against the Weather
- Inter Press Service
TAMALE, Ghana, Jul 18 (IPS) - Smallholder farmer Suleman Mustapha Simbia, 40, is pleased with the introduction of an insurance initiative called the Ghana Agriculture Insurance Programme. The programme is being implemented in this West African nation to help farmers who had been suffering from loss of income as a result of the bad weather conditions that affect their yields.
Ethiopia’s Opposition Rises Again
- Inter Press Service
GONDAR, Ethiopia, Jul 18 (IPS) - Since the violent quashing of political protests after the ruling party won Ethiopia's 2005 elections, this East African nation has seen little in the way of political dissent. That is, until the last few months.
U.S., U.K. Accused of Ignoring, Facilitating Abuses in Ethiopia
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 17 (IPS) - The U.S. and U.K. foreign assistance offices are being accused of ignoring, mischaracterising or downplaying testimony offered by ethnic communities in Ethiopia who accuse the Addis Ababa government of forcefully evicting them from their lands and violating their human rights in the name of mass development projects.
Promises to Gas Victims Only 'Hot Air'
- Inter Press Service
MENCHUM DIVISION, Cameroon, Jul 17 (IPS) - Ismaela Muhamadu was six years old when he lost his parents and siblings in a poisonous gas explosion at northern Cameroon's Lake Nyos. The blast killed more than 1,800 people, and 3,000 cattle and wildlife over a 25-km radius.
U.N. Deploys Women Protection Advisers to Curb Sexual Violence
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 16 (IPS) - Despite the United Nations' "zero tolerance" policy against sexual violence, there has been a rash of gender-based crimes in several of the world's conflict zones, including South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Northern Uganda, Somalia, the Central African Republic - and, more recently, in politically-troubled Egypt and Syria.
Critics Warn Pacific Pact Could Jack Up Drug Costs
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 16 (IPS) - As a new round of talks behind a major proposed free trade area, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), get underway this week, the United States is pushing several developing countries to accept provisions that critics say would make it more difficult for their citizens to access medicine.
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