Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 412
Voting Will Change the Lives of Zimbabwe’s Women
- Inter Press Service
MOUNT DARWIN, Zimbabwe, Mar 15 (IPS) - "Ten reasons why women must vote ‘Yes' for the draft constitution…" says the Constitution Select Committee's campaign radio jingle that plays over the airwaves in a grocer's store at Mukumbura border post business centre on Zimbabwe's northeastern border with Mozambique.
Local Communities Forced to Pay Salaries of DRC Army and Rebels
- Inter Press Service
GOMA, Mar 15 (IPS) - On the way to his fields, Denise Mambo, a resident of Kitshanga, North Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, stops at a rope laid across his path.
Q&A: Rise of South "Unprecedented in Speed and Scale"
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 14 (IPS) - The world's 132 developing nations, largely part of the global South, are ascending at a pace "unprecedented in its speed and scale", according to the latest Human Development Report (HDR) released Thursday by the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP).
Latin America Won’t Lose Cheap Oil from Venezuela
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Mar 14 (IPS) - Venezuela will keep in place the regional energy integration policies promoted by the late president Hugo Chávez if he is succeeded by acting president Nicolás Maduro, experts on regional relations told IPS.
Cameroonian Farmers Find Justice in Fair Fruit
- Inter Press Service
DOUALA, Cameroon, Mar 14 (IPS) - The fruit farmers in Njombe, a small town in the coastal Littoral Region of Cameroon, learned a life lesson about "making lemonade out of lemons" - or rather "dried fruit out of fruit" when their land was taken from them by the government and leased to an international farming company.
Drought Hits Policies
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Mar 13 (IPS) - Drought has dramatically increased as a consequence of climate change. Most countries react to it only after it has occurred, but don't have national policies to prevent it. The high-level meeting on national drought policies in Geneva this week is trying to match scientific knowledge with political awareness.
War Over, Now to Secure Peace
- Inter Press Service
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso, Mar 13 (IPS) - As the Malian army and its foreign partners are slowly securing northern cities in the West African nation, it is still unclear how the country will turn its back on the political crisis that led to the March 2012 military coup.
Changing Weather, Changing Fortunes
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Mar 12 (IPS) - Sri Lanka has paused for breath after the extreme weather conditions last year that many associate with climate change.
Thailand Negotiating ‘Worrying’ Deal With EU
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Mar 12 (IPS) - The negotiations launched this week for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Thailand and the European Union have raised concerns among both Thai and European non-governmental organisations, who fear that EU demands could have a negative impact on Thailand's progressive public health policies.
Child Sexual Exploitation on the Rise in North Kivu
- Inter Press Service
GOMA, DR Congo, Mar 12 (IPS) - A street in Goma's city centre, the capital of North Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, has been nicknamed "the ward of death" because of the brutal crimes that frequently occur there.
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