Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 439
Senegal Finds the Cooperative Way to More Food
- Inter Press Service
DAKAR, Oct 18 (IPS) - Over the past two years, millet production has reached record levels in Dya, a rural community in the Kaolack region of central Senegal, where the Agricultural Value Chains Support Project (PAFA) is supporting two farmers' collectives.
Three Years of Peace But No Sign of Prosperity
- Inter Press Service
VAVUNIYA, Sri Lanka, Oct 18 (IPS) - Mamaduwa, a remote village in Sri Lanka’s northern Vavuniya district where scorching winds blow across parched earth, is trying to forget the past.
Some Caribbean Hotels Back Away from Battered Coastlines
- Inter Press Service
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, Oct 17 (IPS) - The postcards portray sand, sea and sun. But key players in the Caribbean tourism industry are warning that it's time to shift gears away from the region's threatened coastlines and instead promote inland attractions like biodiversity.
Malawi Considers Controversial EU Trade Deal
- Inter Press Service
BLANTYRE, Oct 17 (IPS) - Malawi has opened up negotiations on the economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union, which have been deadlocked since 2002.
Caught Between Islamists and the Military
- Inter Press Service
KANO, Nigeria, Oct 16 (IPS) - Locals in the city of Maiduguri in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno have intensified their calls for the military to withdraw from the town, the stronghold of the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, after claims that they are being maltreated and abused.
Law Fails to Protect Malawi Children
- Inter Press Service
BLANTYRE, Oct 16 (IPS) - Patrick Martin, 14, and his brother Mayeso, 15, are safely home for the moment with their mother and other siblings in Kasonya village, Phalombe District in southern Malawi, after they and 12 other children were rescued from being trafficked to neighbouring Mozambique last month by their father.
Africa’s Claims for Security Council Seats Still in Limbo
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 15 (IPS) - After 20 long years of negotiations on a proposed expansion of the Security Council, African countries continue to be left out in the cold - even as African leaders complain that the international community has failed to respond to their demands for two permanent seats in the most powerful body at the United Nations.
Donors Urged to Tread Carefully in Myanmar
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, Oct 14 (IPS) - Foreign donors are rushing into Myanmar (formerly Burma), whose government has been pushing the right political buttons as part of its democratic reform process. But development planners and local activists caution that the best approach should still be ‘easy does it’.
China Wants Peace in Africa
- Inter Press Service
BISHOFTU, Ethiopia, Oct 13 (IPS) - China could soon expand its involvement in peace and security issues in Africa, according to government officials, researchers and academics from both the Asian giant and resource-rich continent who met at the second China-Africa Think Tanks Forum in Ethiopia from Oct. 12 to 13.
Malawi's Heroines of the Floods
- Inter Press Service
NSANJE, Malawi, Oct 13 (IPS) - For many women in Malawi’s disaster-prone southern district of Nsanje, resilience is essential to survive the cyclical flooding.
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