Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 458
Snails boost food, medicine production
- Inter Press Service
, Jul 12 (IPS) - Starting plantation farming in Cameroon in the 1980’s, and the spraying of pesticides, almost drove certain snail species to extinction. But farmers in the coastal regions of Cameroon are now cultivating the animals for food, traditional medicine and income.
Paradise island fights poverty
- Inter Press Service
TURKMENISTAN: Ashgabat Quietly Builds Up Caspian Military Might
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 12 (IPS) - When it comes to the brewing arms race in the Caspian Sea region, no one can accuse Turkmen leader Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov of navel-gazing. Ashgabat is now able to back its claims to some energy-rich patches of the sea with considerable firepower.
Making it Compulsory to Have Women in Ghana’s Parliament
- Inter Press Service
ACCRA, Jul 12 (IPS) - Beatrice Boateng, a member of parliament with the New Patriotic Party, Ghana’s official opposition to the ruling New Democratic Congress, has earned her place among the country’s lawmakers.
DRC Warlord Sentence a Joke, Say NGOs
- Inter Press Service
KINSHASA, Jul 12 (IPS) - Non-governmental organisations in the Democratic Republic of Congo province where Thomas Lubanga Dyilo used children as fighters in his militia in 2002 to 2003 have slammed his 14-year sentence as inadequate – and potentially dangerous.
Making it Compulsory to Have Women in Ghana’s Parliament
- Inter Press Service
Beatrice Boateng, a member of parliament with the New Patriotic Party, Ghana’s official opposition to the ruling New Democratic Congress, has earned her place among the country’s lawmakers.
DRC Warlord Sentence a Joke, Say NGOs
- Inter Press Service
Non-governmental organisations in the Democratic Republic of Congo province where Thomas Lubanga Dyilo used children as fighters in his militia in 2002 to 2003 have slammed his 14-year sentence as inadequate — and potentially dangerous.
U.S. Commits 10 Million for Mali Refugees as Intervention Talk Builds
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 12 (IPS) - President Barack Obama on Thursday authorised the release of 10 million dollars in emergency funding to help with the refugee crisis stemming from continued violence in northern Mali, in response to warnings that international aid efforts were in danger of drying up in coming months.
U.S. Opens Investment in Myanmar Oil and Gas, Over Suu Kyi’s Advice
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 12 (IPS) - Following on a May announcement, the U.S. government on Wednesday moved to implement its most significant rollback in longstanding sanctions on Burma, also known as Myanmar.
Mozambique’s “People from Germany” Wait Decades for Salaries
- Inter Press Service
MAPUTO, Jul 11 (IPS) - Every Wednesday at 11.00am José Alfredo Cossa unfurls his East German flag and leads a march of around 150 men and women down the main streets of Maputo, Mozambique’s capital. In a struggle for justice that has been going on for more than 20 years this group, known as the “Magermans”, represent the 16,000 to 20,000 Mozambicans who were sent to the former East Germany in the early 1980s to work and serve their country.
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