Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 451
World Bank Releases Draft Strategy for Myanmar
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 17 (IPS) - Following on calls by civil society, the World Bank has released a draft summary framework for its re-engagement with Myanmar over the next year and a half. The formal interim strategy is slated to be ready by the end of October.
Livelihoods Drying Up on Malawi's Lake Chilwa
- Inter Press Service
LAKE CHILWA, Malawi, Aug 17 (IPS) - Fisherfolk and farmers living near Malawi’s second-largest water body, Lake Chilwa, are relocating en masse and scrambling for space around its shores as the lake has dried to dangerously low levels.
Cash Grants Replace Food Aid for Niger Families in Need
- Inter Press Service
TILLABERI, Niger, Aug 17 (IPS) - When her name is called, Rékia Djibo leaves the group of women gathered in front of the school in Toula, and takes a confident step towards the door. Djibo is one of the recipients of a cash transfer from the World Food Programme here on the outskirts of the southwestern Niger city of Tillabéri.
Senegalese Cooperative Gives Youth Reasons to Stay at Home
- Inter Press Service
MATAM, Sénégal, Aug 16 (IPS) - Like many other young Senegalese, Pape Mokhtar Diallo long dreamed of escaping his rural home in northern Senegal for a better life. Three times he tried and failed to go overseas. But the establishment of an agricultural cooperative here in the village of Boyinadji has put another dream within his grasp.
Rapes of Young Girls in DRC Still Unpunished
- Inter Press Service
KINSHASA, Aug 16 (IPS) - A rash of recent rape cases has sparked local criticism of the weakness of the justice system in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where inadequate resources and simple incompetence mean survivors of sexual violence hold little hope of obtaining justice.
Food Activists See Portents of New and Deeper Hunger Crisis
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 16 (IPS) - Food rights activists from around the world will descend on the coastal U.S. state of Florida next week to protest homelessness and hunger facing millions of people in the United States and across the globe.
Mauritanian Women Turn to Poultry to Fight Poverty
- Inter Press Service
NOUAKCHOTT, Aug 16 (IPS) - The building is standing empty now, but Fatimetou Mint M'Barkenni is looking forward to when it is again filled with the soft cheeping of day-old chicks. Earlier in the year, she raised a first batch of broiler chickens as part of a pilot project, to boost rural incomes and food security here at Bourate, in rural Mauritania.
Surviving on a Meal a Day in Ghana’s Savannah Zone
- Inter Press Service
TAMALE, Ghana, Aug 15 (IPS) - In order to ensure that he and his family survive this year's failed harvest, Adams Seidu, like farmers in other rural communities in Ghana’s Northern Region, has implemented a strategy for survival. They are using what Seidu calls the "one-zero-one strategy" for children, and the "zero-zero-one strategy" for adults.
Lean Times Get Leaner in Northern Cote d’Ivoire
- Inter Press Service
KORHOGO, Cote d’Ivoire, Aug 14 (IPS) - Salimata Coulibaly, director of a medical centre in the town of Korhogo in the northern Cote d’Ivoire region of Savanes, stood before a chart displaying before-and-after photos of local children – one taken when each child arrived at the centre, and one after he or she responded to treatment for malnutrition.
Plant Diseases Threaten Food Security in Kivu, DR Congo
- Inter Press Service
BUKAVU, DR Congo, Aug 14 (IPS) - Plant diseases affecting bananas and cassava are gaining ground in two provinces in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to South Kivu's provincial minister for agriculture, Gisèle Batembo.
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