Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 436
Sierra Leone - Women Shoot Themselves in the Foot in Elections
- Inter Press Service
FREETOWN, Nov 06 (IPS) - Only 38 women - of a total of 586 candidates - will contest parliamentary seats in Sierra Leone's November elections, and the blame for this can be laid squarely on the shoulders of the current group of female lawmakers, according to Barbara Bangura, the director of the women's organisation Grassroots Empowerment for Self Reliance.
Kenyan Candidate Running Against Homophobia
- Inter Press Service
, Nov 05 (IPS) - During an interview at the Hilton Hotel in downtown Nairobi, David Kuria Mbote, Kenya's first openly homosexual candidate for public office, stresses that his campaign will not be only about gay rights.
Q&A: Exposing the Good, the Bad and the Lack of Media Freedom
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Nov 04 (IPS) - Pansy Tlakula, the African Union's Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information, has done her best to address the continued harassment of journalists in the Gambia.
Military Curfew Slowly Strangling Nigerian Town
- Inter Press Service
KANO, Nigeria, Nov 03 (IPS) - A recent military curfew imposed on the violence-wracked north-eastern Nigerian town of Potiskum has not only made life unbearable for residents, but it has also reduced their chances of survival.
U.S. Impatient with African Response to Northern Mali Conflict
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 02 (IPS) - Despite growing western concerns about the continuing reign in northern Mali by an Al Qaeda-linked group, analysts here say it will take months before conditions could be ripe to oust it from the region, by military force if necessary.
Q&A: Kenyan Women Set to Take on Men in Elections
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Nov 02 (IPS) - As Kenya gets ready for voter registration this month, ahead of the country's Mar. 4, 2013 polls, women's rights organisations are hoping that the provisions for gender equality in the new constitution will mean significantly increased representation in the government.
Indigenous Seek Profits From Forests
- Inter Press Service
RIFT VALLEY, Kenya, Nov 02 (IPS) - Kenya's Ogiek community, the indigenous group of hunter-gatherers who were evicted from the Mau Forest three years ago, say they will no longer sit by and watch logging companies profit from the resources of their traditional home while they live in poverty in tented camps around the forest without even the most basic of services, like sanitation.
Uphill Struggle for Caribbean Financial Services Sector
- Inter Press Service
ST. JOHN'S, Antigua, Nov 02 (IPS) - In the 1980's, Caribbean countries wanted to shore up their prospects of social and economic development in the coming decades, so they looked to the financial services sector to spur employment and development. They managed to develop a robust industry, particularly in the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands.
China Invests in Central America – But Doesn’t Buy
- Inter Press Service
GUATEMALA CITY, Nov 01 (IPS) - From satellites to inter-oceanic canals, the most innovative or ambitious investments in Central America are coming from China - even though six of the seven countries in this sub-region do not have diplomatic ties with the Asian giant.
Foreign Farmers Undermine Food Security in Zambia
- Inter Press Service
LUSAKA, Nov 01 (IPS) - Increased agricultural development in Zambia will actually compromise the country’s food security as peasant farmers continue to be driven off their customary land to pave the way for large-scale local and foreign agribusiness, according to the University of Zambia’s dean of the school of agriculture, Dr. Mickey Mwala.
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