Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 447
Kenya’s Water Wars Kill Scores
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Sep 11 (IPS) - Water scarcity is fuelling deadly inter-ethnic wars that continue to claim lives in Kenya, according to government officials. And if nothing is done to educate communities on how to conserve the valuable resource, the situation will escalate, governance experts and environmentalists warn.
Trans-Pacific Trade Talks Grind On
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 11 (IPS) - The 14th round of negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the proposal for a massive free-trade area spearheaded by the United States, got underway here over the weekend.
Agricultural Activity to Slow Clandestine Emigration from Senegal
- Inter Press Service
DAKAR, Sep 10 (IPS) - "It was Ibrahima Sarr, a friend and fellow fisherman, who got me involved with smuggling people across the seas." Senegalese fisherman Doudou Ndoye speaks with the bittersweet conviction of a man redeemed.
Microfinance Brings Hope to Myanmar’s Farmers
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Sep 10 (IPS) - After decades of grinding poverty under successive military dictatorships, Myanmar’s rice farmers have a chance at a better future through rural reforms ushered in by the country’s quasi-civilian government. Microfinance is at the root of it.
Justice a Long Way Off for Dead Miners
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Sep 07 (IPS) - The South African Police Service members who were involved in a bloodbath with striking workers at the Marikana mine in North West Province could face murder charges, sources close to the investigation told IPS.
Caribbean Seeks Leg Up from Economic Doldrums
- Inter Press Service
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Sep 06 (IPS) - As governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) that groups seven countries, Sir Dwight Venner is all too aware of the low economic growth, debt and financial instability confronting the wider Caribbean.
U.S. Company Accused of Greenwashing Cameroon ‘Land-Grab’
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 06 (IPS) - Environment groups are accusing a New York-based agricultural company, Herakles Farms, of going forward with plans for a 73,000-hectare palm-oil plantation and refinery in southwest Cameroon despite a lack of government authorisation, two court injunctions, and in the face of significant community opposition.
Auntie Hillary Visits Cook Islands Hoping to Put China on Sidelines
- Inter Press Service
RAROTONGA, Cook Islands, Sep 06 (IPS) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was greeted as celebrity-royalty by Cook Islanders during an unprecedented visit at the end of last week to attend a regional meeting of Pacific island nations here.
Water in DRC More Often Cause of Death than Source of Life
- Inter Press Service
MBUJI MAYI, DR Congo, Sep 05 (IPS) - Despite the desperate lack of access to water for domestic use in Mwene Ditu, in the central Democratic Republic of Congo, Dieudonné Ilunga spent a good part of July blocking up residents' wells.
Fighting Hunger - Arresting South Sudan’s Idle Youth
- Inter Press Service
JUBA, Sep 05 (IPS) - Police in South Sudan have begun press-ganging every "idle" youth they can find to provide labour on police farms. The State Police Commissioner in Northern Bahr al Gazal state says young men cannot be left to drink tea and play cards all day while food insecurity threatens the country.
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