Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 452
Q&A: Military Action in Mali Would Be a ‘Huge Risk’
- Inter Press Service
DAKAR, Aug 14 (IPS) - Military action by West African states against the insurrection in northern Mali would be extremely risky without diplomatic support from neighbouring Algeria and Mauritania, according to International Crisis Group researcher Gilles Yabi.
Eastern Caribbean Seeks Economic Unity
- Inter Press Service
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, Aug 13 (IPS) - The nine-member Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) is pushing harder for regional integration with the launch of a new parliamentary forum that it says will play a major role in its efforts to establish an economic union.
Armed Forces Still Dictating Côte d'Ivoire’s Law
- Inter Press Service
ABIDJAN, Aug 13 (IPS) - Even as Côte d'Ivoire gradually recovers from the bloody events of the 2010-2011 post-electoral crisis, massacres in the western part of the country and the frequent sound of gunfire in the economic capital, Abidjan, are signs of the long road ahead.
Kenyan Differences Melt With Gold
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Aug 11 (IPS) - When Kenyan athlete David Lekuta Rudisha simultaneously became the first person ever to break the 1min 41sec mark in the 800m while also becoming the first person to set a world record at this year’s London Olympics on Thursday Aug. 9, he managed another first. He briefly united an ethnically divided nation.
Amid Rise in Piracy, U.N. Backs Summit on Maritime Security
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 09 (IPS) - When the United Nations advocates the protection of the world's oceans, its political agenda transcends the battle against marine pollution, global warming, overfishing, greenhouse gases and sea-level rise.
Mauritian Fishers Want EU Vessels Out of Their Seas
- Inter Press Service
PORT LOUIS, Aug 09 (IPS) - “Look out there, the blue one…. that is a European Union fishing vessel that is threatening our livelihood,” says Lallmamode Mohamedally, a Mauritian fisherman, as he points to a boat offloading its catch at the Les Salines port, close to the country’s capital Port Louis.
Is the Staggering Rise of the South Sustainable?
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Aug 09 (IPS) - Growth in developing economies (DEs) has accelerated significantly in the new millennium.
Free Trade with China? No, Gracias
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Aug 08 (IPS) - There is little likelihood that South America’s Mercosur trade bloc will take up China’s proposal to establish a free trade agreement, at least in the short term. Experts and industrialists fear an invasion of cheap Chinese goods, and unequal competition.
Q&A: Sustainability Now a Matter of Life and Death
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Aug 08 (IPS) - Humanity is living beyond its means with the growing demand for food, medicines and other nature-based products, making sustainable consumption and conservation a matter of life and death. This is according to the world’s oldest and largest global environmental network, the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Trailer Trashing as South Africa Considers Outlawing Bicycle Trailers
- Inter Press Service
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Aug 07 (IPS) - The road between Zimbabwe’s Victoria Falls and Livingstone, in Zambia, is a well-traversed one, criss-crossed by bicycle riders towing trailers of bread and other supplies, with their bicycle spokes reinforced to bear the extra weight.
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