Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 432
South Sudan Oiling up for Self-Reliance
- Inter Press Service
JUBA, Nov 28 (IPS) - As South Sudan continues negotiations with Sudan regarding the resumption of oil production and transit, the South Sudanese government says that it is developing its own industry and will start producing fuel for domestic consumption within the next eight months in order to avoid continued reliance on its neighbour.
African Negotiators Saving Kyoto from the Grave
- Inter Press Service
DOHA, Nov 27 (IPS) - African negotiators attending the United Nations climate change talks in Doha, Qatar say they are determined to ensure that developed countries do not let the Kyoto Protocol die as its commitment period comes to an end.
Chinese and Brazilian Firms Building the New Angola
- Inter Press Service
LUANDA, Nov 27 (IPS) - "In Luanda there are no matches." This was the first line of a report written by Nobel Literature laureate Gabriel García Márquez in the Angolan capital in 1977.
Q&A: COP18, Another ‘Conference of Polluters’
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Nov 27 (IPS) - There is no political will among rich nations to find funding for developing countries experiencing the brunt of changes in global weather patterns, and the current climate change conference will fail to do so, according to Professor Patrick Bond, a leading thinker and analyst on climate change issues.
Development Targets Ride on Vitamins
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Nov 26 (IPS) - One hundred and ninety million – that's more than the populations of Germany, France and Poland combined. It is also the number of children affected by vitamin A deficiency around the world.
'The Children Could Die' in Eastern DRC Fighting
- Inter Press Service
BUKAVU, DR Congo, Nov 26 (IPS) - Humanitarian agencies working in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo have been overwhelmed following a massive displacement triggered by fighting between the Congolese army (FARDC) and rebel movement M23 in North Kivu.
Africa – Calling for a GMO-Free Continent
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Nov 23 (IPS) - South African smallholder farmer Motlasi Musi is not happy with the African Centre for Biosafety's call for his country and Africa to ban the cultivation, import and export of all genetically modified maize. "I eat genetically modified maize, which I have been growing on my farm for more than seven years, and I am still alive," he declared.
Reconsidering Policies and Strategies in the South
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Nov 22 (IPS) - There are numerous reasons to believe that the forces that have been driving growth in developing and emerging economies since 2009 cannot be sustained over the medium term. At the same time, it is impossible to return to the extremely favourable international economic conditions that prevailed before the eruption of the global crisis.
Keeping African Roots Alive in Brazil
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 22 (IPS) - A Nigerian diviner dances and sings next to a Brazilian priest of the Candomblé religion, brought to this South American country by African slaves, that is now being rescued from oblivion in school texts on national history and culture.
Ethiopia Throttles Rights Organisations
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Nov 22 (IPS) - The world received contradictory signals about Ethiopia's human rights record when in the same week it was elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council, a major German charity closed its Ethiopian office in protest against a restrictive political environment.
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