Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 445
Money For Salt: How The Country Of The Young Is Failing Its Elderly
- Inter Press Service
, Sep 20 (IPS) - Carolina Poalo strikes the dry earth over and over with her hoe, her frail body bent almost double. She is determined to begin planting. During the long, dry season in Mozambique, she and her two young grandchildren have eaten little but cassava leaves.
Uganda’s ‘Haunted’ Children Slow to Receive Medical Help
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Sep 20 (IPS) - On a wet earth littered with fresh fruit from a large mango tree in Tumangu village in northern Uganda, Betty Olana (42) sits on a papyrus mat watching over four emaciated children infected by the mysterious nodding syndrome that leaves victims mentally challenged and nodding repeatedly when they see food or cold water.
Donors Urged to Give Space to New Somali Govt
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 20 (IPS) - Both the U.S. government and the United Nations warned Wednesday that new fighting in a key rebel-held area of Somalia needed to ensure the safety of civilians, in a battle that could be a critical turning point following the country’s recent surprise election results and decades of lawlessness.
Palestinian Authority Faces Fiscal Crisis, As World Bank Blames Israelis
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 20 (IPS) - With a shortfall of some 400 million dollars this year, the Palestinian Authority (PA) faces a “deepening fiscal crisis", according to new reports released here Wednesday on the eve of a critical donors’ conference by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Uganda Oils Sales to China
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Sep 19 (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.
Suu Kyi Backs Lifting of Final U.S. Sanctions on Myanmar
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 19 (IPS) - Speaking on Tuesday at her first public address in the United States, Myanmar’s opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, said that she supported the lifting of the last remaining U.S. economic sanctions on her country, but also warned that all remaining political prisoners need to be released.
Little Concern for the Environment in EU-Central America Agreement
- Inter Press Service
GUATEMALA CITY, Sep 18 (IPS) - The Association Agreement between Central America and the European Union (EU) will increase environmental and social pressures on the region, warn experts and activists. But some observers stress its potentially positive impacts.
Tractors Revolutionise Agriculture in Chad
- Inter Press Service
N’DJAMENA, Sep 18 (IPS) - Chad has more than 400,000 square kilometres of arable land, but poor rainfall and a reliance on basic agricultural techniques have left the country with a grain deficit in the past two years. The government is turning to mechanisation in a bid to improve harvests.
Poor Infrastructure Makes Imports Cheaper in Indonesia
- Inter Press Service
JAKARTA, Sep 17 (IPS) - Indonesia suffers from a malaise: an appalling lack of infrastructure which makes a mandarin orange that travels thousands of miles from Argentina cost nearly the same as another picked locally.
Czechs Weigh Human Rights Against Business
- Inter Press Service
PRAGUE, Sep 15 (IPS) - The Czech foreign ministry has insisted the country’s support for human rights is “not for sale” after calls from the prime minister to drop “fashionable political causes” such as supporting the Dalia Lama and the jailed Russian pop group Pussy Riot.
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