Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 457
East Africa’s Financial Integration Slow off the Starting Blocks
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Jul 17 (IPS) - For months now East Africans have been expectantly waiting for an economic revolution to begin as they anticipate the launch of a new standardised payment system that will integrate the electronic transfer of money in the region. But continued delays in the launch of the system have economists fearing that the weak financial infrastructure here is hindering its implementation.
Rights Groups, U.S. Denounce Sentences of Ethiopian Journalists
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 17 (IPS) - Human rights groups, press watchdogs, and even the U.S. government have strongly denounced recent prison sentences meted out against journalists and opposition activists accused of violating Ethiopia's anti-terrorism laws.
Sudan, South Sudan Resume Talks Amid Doubts for Long-term Success
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 16 (IPS) - Ahead of an Aug. 2 deadline, the leaders of Sudan and South Sudan over the weekend engaged in their first direct talks since hostilities spiked in late April.
Teaching Madagascar's Mothers to Combat Malnutrition
- Inter Press Service
ANTANANARIVO, Jul 16 (IPS) - Every Friday, mothers and their children gather at the community nutrition centre in the little village of Rantolava, 450 kilometres north east of Antananarivo, the Malagasy capital, to learn more about a healthy diet.
Shipping Canal Threatens Culture, Ecology, Livelihoods
- Inter Press Service
RAMESHWARAM, Jul 16 (IPS) - One hundred and fifty years ago, the British colonial administration in India proposed a shipping canal project that would allow cargo vessels, commercial liners and large ships to cut through the Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park in the Palk Straits between India and Sri Lanka, thereby slashing 424 nautical miles (about 780 kilometres) off the traditional shipping route around Sri Lanka to the Far East.
Chile Debates Control over Lithium Production
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO DE CHILE, Jul 15 (IPS) - The Chilean government's decision to invite companies to tender offers for mine lithium resources has been widely rejected by mining trade unions and legislators of the opposition.
Conservationists Urge Ban on Trade of Turtle Eggs
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 14 (IPS) - Age-old customs and traditions that allow licenced traders to collect and sell marine turtle eggs to locals and tourists alike are driving the creatures to extinction, Malaysian conservationists charge.
World Bank Approves Contentious Ethiopia-Kenya Electric Line
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 13 (IPS) - The World Bank has voted to approve funding credit for a major transmission line that would link Kenya to the controversial Gilgel Gibe III dam site in southern Ethiopia, pushing back against months of calls by local and international rights and environmental groups to keep out of the project.
UNDP Predicts Rise of the Global South
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 13 (IPS) - When the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) unveils its annual flagship Human Development Report (HDR) in mid-October, the primary focus will be on a growing new phenomenon on the economic horizon: the rise of the global South and the significant progress in South-South cooperation over the last decade.
Youth grow flowers to get money
- Inter Press Service
, Jul 12 (IPS) - Farming flowers in slums is becoming an option for jobless youths in cities across Cameroon. Flowers and ornamental trees are planted to decorate compounds ,roadsides, lanes and tourism sites. Aaron Kaah reports.
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