Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 424
South Africa-Brazil Trade Partnership Hits Potholes
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Jan 12 (IPS) - As the five members of the BRICS group of emerging economies – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – tighten ranks and seek to expand their global influence, the inevitable trade spats have begun.
Morphine Kills Pain but its Price Kills Patients
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Jan 11 (IPS) - It took Gily Ncube's daughters two weeks to sell enough chickens to raise the 18 dollars needed to buy the morphine tablets their mother takes every four hours.
Slum Dwellers Say "No" to Blood Money
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Jan 10 (IPS) - With less than two months before Kenyans head to the polls for what is shaping up to be the most competitive and polarised general election in the country's history, many fear that this East African country of over 40 million has not seen the last of electoral violence.
Cuban Sugar Sector Aims for Recovery in 2013
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Jan 09 (IPS) - The Cuban sugar industry seems to be experiencing a rebirth thanks to an economic modernisation programme that has allowed for an injection of foreign capital as part of a strategy to strengthen and diversify this key sector.
Unemployed Youth Turn to Drugs
- Inter Press Service
FREETOWN, Jan 09 (IPS) - The air is heavy with the smell of marijuana as Gibrilla (23) expertly rolls a large joint at the Members of Blood (M.O.B) gang base in a poor neighbourhood of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown.
China's Rising Soybean Consumption Reshaping Western Agriculture
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 08 (IPS) - Global demand for soybeans has soared in recent decades, with China leading the race. Nearly 60 percent of all soybeans entering international trade today go to China, making it far and away the world's largest importer.
A River Runs Dry in Tanzania
- Inter Press Service
DAR ES SALAAM, Jan 08 (IPS) - Avelina Elias Mkenda, a 52-year-old small-scale farmer in the Mbarali district of Tanzania's southwestern Mbeya region, can sense a change in her environment.
Abandoning Nuclear Weapons – Lessons from South Africa
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Jan 08 (IPS) - Not many nice things can be said about the apartheid regime in South Africa. It was racist, violent in the brutal oppression of many of its own citizens, and was despised around the world.
Pacific Island Wakes Up to Threat of Oil Spills
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Jan 07 (IPS) - Coral reefs and marine ecosystems in the Milne Bay Province of the Pacific Island nation of Papua New Guinea are at serious risk of long-term environmental damage. The reason: an oil spill from a ship that ran aground on a reef on Kwaiawata Island on Christmas Eve, and authorities' long delay in mobilising an appropriate response to the accident.
Asia Leaps Forward in Regional Economic Integration
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 03 (IPS) - As the United Nations continues to intensify the promotion of South-South cooperation among member states, Asia plans to take a great leap forward in regional economic integration during the next decade.
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