Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 407
Expanding Ethiopia’s Bamboo Sector
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Apr 08 (IPS) - A combination of an abundance of bamboo and eager foreign investment is making Ethiopia a frontier for the bamboo industrial revolution in Africa, according to this country's government.
Moving on from Rwanda’s 100 Days of Genocide
- Inter Press Service
KIGALI, Apr 07 (IPS) - Bernard Kayumba, the mayor of Karongi district in western Rwanda, remembers just what it was like to be caught up in the genocide that claimed the lives of almost one million people in 100 days 19 years ago.
Q&A: A Healthy Verdict from India
- Inter Press Service
Getting Past Aid to Develop
- Inter Press Service
PARIS, Apr 05 (IPS) - With the level of Western aid to the world's poorest countries declining amid the global financial crisis, economists are calling for "innovative" means of development that range from proper taxation of multinationals to laws that ensure gender equality.
Children Learn Lessons of Commerce on the Streets of Zimbabwe
- Inter Press Service
, Apr 05 (IPS) - Susan Sithole* is 14 and should be in grade nine or Form Two, according to Zimbabwe's education system, learning her lessons in Mathematics, English and other subjects.
Investing in Renewable Energy Means Investing in Lives
- Inter Press Service
PORT-LOUIS, Apr 04 (IPS) - Residents of Albion, a small village in Pointe-aux-Caves, western Mauritius, say that by opposing the construction of a new coal power plant near their homes, they are defending their constitutional right to live.
Libyans ‘Fighting Drug Dealers for Our Country’
- Inter Press Service
TRIPOLI, Apr 04 (IPS) - In Libya, a dose of LSD or the painkiller tramadol costs 78 cents, and a joint of cannabis is 7.80 dollars. Here, drugs are affordable to the poor for a simple reason. "Slashing prices is a way to create demand and open up a market," a Western diplomat tells IPS in Tripoli, the capital.
For Climate Action, 2013 “Good as It’ll Get”: Nicholas Stern
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 03 (IPS) - A confluence of factors could make 2013 the most fruitful opportunity in years – and for years – for potentially major action on climate change, according to a leading voice on climate change policy, the British economist Nicholas Stern.
Beitbridge Still Counting the Cost of Floods
- Inter Press Service
Harare, Apr 03 (IPS) - The Beitbridge area in southern Zimbabwe was hit by serious flooding earlier this year. Those affected are still trying to get back on their feet.
Building a Better Somali Region
- Inter Press Service
JIJIGA, Ethiopia, Apr 03 (IPS) - For over two decades Somali Region, in eastern Ethiopia, has been devastated by a grueling insurgency. Trapped in a time warp, it has been forgotten and underdeveloped. But in the last few years, thanks to the increased security here, a five-star hotel, eco-tourism ventures and even a large abattoir are being built by the former diaspora community.
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