Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 444
Keeping Girls in School in Uganda
- Inter Press Service
KAMULI, Uganda, Sep 26 (IPS) - Three years ago, after Irene Kamyuka finished her sixth year of primary school in Uganda, her father ran short of money. With four siblings ahead of her in school, Kamyuka’s father told her she would have to drop out until his finances turned around.
Ivorians Deal With European Stink
- Inter Press Service
ABIDJAN, Sep 26 (IPS) - Nouma Camara, a 40-year-old tailor, remembers waking up on Aug. 20, 2006 to a smell he described as “something catastrophic.” His home in Akouedo village, in Côte d’Ivoire’s commercial capital city of Abidjan, lies adjacent to a large, open-air dumpsite where toxic waste had been dumped the night before.
Giving Women Farmers the Tools to Prevent Food Insecurity
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Sep 25 (IPS) - If women had equal access to productive farming resources, they could increase their yields by 20 to 30 percent and potentially raise total agricultural output in developing countries by 2.5 to four percent.
Côte d'Ivoire – New Cassava Varieties Bring Women Autonomy
- Inter Press Service
ABIDJAN, Sep 25 (IPS) - Women farmers in Côte d'Ivoire are achieving greater autonomy and economic independence thanks to new varieties of cassava.
Nobel Laureate Calls for Armed Intervention in Nigeria
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 25 (IPS) - On the International Day of Peace, Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka visited the United Nations - and called for armed intervention against the terrorist group Boko Haram in his home country of Nigeria.
GEORGIA: Anti-Turkish Sentiments Grow as Election Date Nears
- Inter Press Service
TBILISI, Sep 24 (IPS) - Rooted in longstanding historical, religious and economic differences, Georgian animosity toward neighbouring Turkey, Georgia’s fifth-largest investor, appears to be growing in the Black Sea region of Achara.
Reluctant Farewell to Arms in Côte d’Ivoire
- Inter Press Service
ABIDJAN, Sep 22 (IPS) - In his black boots and green fatigues – complete with arm patches bearing the name of the national army, Forces Republicaines de Côte d’Ivoire – Ousmane Kone looked every bit the soldier as he stood guard over an electricity and water distribution company one Tuesday afternoon in Abidjan.
/UPDATE*/ Uganda Oils Sales to China
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Sep 21 (IPS) - Almost a decade since Uganda initiated negotiations with China for the favourable export of coffee beans to the Asian giant, it is struggling to create even trade relations with the world's second-biggest economy. But economic experts predict that the East African nation could close the gap through the promotion of agriculture and the eventual export of oil.
Second Chance For an African Green Revolution
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Sep 21 (IPS) - As the world searches desperately for ways to boost food production by at least 70 percent by 2050 to feed an increasingly hungry planet, many are looking to Africa as the place where a large part of this potential can be realised, mainly for its huge portion of arable land.
South African Miners Begin Returning to Work
- Inter Press Service
DOHA, Sep 20 (IPS) - Miners at the Marikana platinum mine in South Africa have begun returning to work after agreeing a pay deal.*
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