Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 426
Kenya’s Growing Luxury Housing Market Not for Locals
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Dic 26 (IPS) - Despite the development boom in state-of-the-art luxury homes in Kenya, the country's upper class has fallen on hard times and can no longer afford them, according to economic experts here. Instead, Kenya's formerly wealthy have now become part of the continent's growing middle class.
Africa - Rising Investments, Rising Middle Class
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Dic 26 (IPS) - Rising investments in Africa's service sector, the unlocking of its vast natural resources and the sound economic policies pursued by African countries in the last two decades are spurring the rise of the continent's middle class at a faster rate than population growth.
Q&A: Will the BRICS Bury IBSA?
- Inter Press Service
Africa Cashes in on Mineral Wealth
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Dic 24 (IPS) - Many of the fastest-growing countries in the world are in Africa, the poorest continent on the planet, but the potential for recently-discovered resources to generate broad-based inclusive development opportunities is massive and remains under-exploited.
The Industrialisation of Africa’s Smallholder Agriculture
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Dic 23 (IPS) - Africa's smallholder farmers, who contribute 80 percent of food and agricultural production in sub-Saharan Africa and much of the world's food supply, are being encouraged by big business, governments and NGOs to become less subsistence based and more entrepreneurial by tailoring production to market forces.
Funding Shortage Thwarts Reconstruction Efforts
- Inter Press Service
MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka, Dic 23 (IPS) - The landscape in northern Sri Lanka's former war zone can change abruptly from the ordinary to the surreal.
Africa’s Mobile Health Revolution
- Inter Press Service
DAR ES SALAAM, Dic 22 (IPS) - A nurse working in a remote clinic in Mueda, a small town in northern Mozambique's Makonde Plateau, receives a shipment of vaccines from the national health department. Using special software on her mobile phone, she sends out a mass text message to alert mothers in the area about the availability of immunisations.
Q&A: "It's Time to Wage War on Homophobia"
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dic 21 (IPS) - For more than two decades, the internationally beloved singer and human rights activist Yvonne Chaka Chaka has been at the forefront of the South African pop music scene.
The Race for a Peaceful Election
- Inter Press Service
RIFT VALLEY, Kenya, Dic 21 (IPS) - Runners Hosea Nailel and Julius Muriuki, who are from Kenya's rival ethnic Kalenjin and Kikuyu communities respectively, met during a half marathon when they broke away from the pack and remained in the leading group.
Anti-Prostitution Campaign Picks Up Speed
- Inter Press Service
KOLKATA, Dic 21 (IPS) - In a small dingy room on the edge of a brothel in west Kolkata, capital of the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, a 42-year-old former sex worker is trying to eke out a living selling cooked food in her neighbourhood, while tending to her sick husband and a paralysed son.
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