Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 435
Senegal Villages Aspire to Self-sufficiency in Rice
- Inter Press Service
DAKAR, Nov 12 (IPS) - The residents of five villages in the Boyard Valley, in southwestern Senegal, are freeing themselves from "the tyranny of imported rice" by stepping up local production of this important staple food.
War’s End Threatens Water Supply in Northern Sri Lanka
- Inter Press Service
JAFFNA, Sri Lanka, Nov 10 (IPS) - War is seldom good for anything, especially protracted conflicts like the one in Sri Lanka, which dragged on for over three decades and claimed between 80,000 to 100,000 lives.
Creditors' Stalemate Brings Greece to Knife Edge
- Inter Press Service
ATHENS, Nov 09 (IPS) - Ignoring the thousands of protestors gathered outside the Greek parliament on Wednesday, the government voted in public spending cuts amounting to 17 billion dollars in an economy already on its knees from a lacerated budget.
Major Malaria Vaccine Less Effective than Hoped
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 09 (IPS) - Researchers unveiling critical trial results of a potentially major anti-malaria vaccine are expressing disappointment that the drug's efficacy levels have proved lower than they had anticipated.
Dark Days Loom for Malawi Tobacco
- Inter Press Service
LILONGWE, Nov 09 (IPS) - The latest proposals by the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control to stop farming of the crop could potentially affect about two million livelihoods in Malawi and decide the fate of an entire nation struggling with a sputtering economy.
The Sun Rescues Rural Cameroonians from “Incessant Darkness”
- Inter Press Service
BAMENDA, Cameroon, Nov 08 (IPS) - In the small farming village of Sabongari, in Cameroon's North West Region, the need for kerosene to light bush lamps and petrol to run electric generators has been replaced by the need for something much cheaper and cleaner: sunshine.
Despite Poverty Pacific Islands Score on Child Mortality
- Inter Press Service
BRISBANE, Nov 07 (IPS) -
The Pacific Islands are making steady progress on reducing child mortality, but most are struggling to eradicate poverty and generate employment for young and rapidly growing populations.
For Champions of Degrowth, Less Is Much More
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Nov 07 (IPS) - The concept of degrowth is not a very comfortable one in overdeveloped countries such as the United States.
Keeping the Veil on Women’s Electoral Participation
- Inter Press Service
MORA, Cameroon, Nov 07 (IPS) - Cameroon's new biometric registration of voters may end up disenfranchising many potential voters, especially women in the country's predominantly Muslim north where cultural practices may prevent them from having their photos taken.
Farm Holds Out Hope for Peace and Development in DR Congo
- Inter Press Service
GOMA, DR Congo, Nov 07 (IPS) - Dairy cattle are again grazing on the rolling green hills of North Kivu province, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Twenty years ago, an explosion of ethnic violence tore through this region, and the restoration of the Lushebere farm can be seen as both a sign and a guarantee of a fragile peace.
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