News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 71
Political Will and Investment Will Score the Goal for Zero Hunger
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Aug 14 (IPS) - A world free from hunger is possible, but it demands political will, investment, and effective policies to transform agriculture and rural development, says Alvaro Lario, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
Nigeria to Expand Education Access Through a Student Loan Scheme
- Inter Press Service
ABUJA, Nigeria, Aug 14 (IPS) - Wisdom Ajah, an 18-year-old senior secondary school graduate living in Karshi, a satellite town in Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory, dreams of a university education that will secure him a good job after graduation and help support his family. But it is a distant dream considering how many obstacles he has faced trying to acquire a secondary school certificate.
Disappearing Fish Spell Hard Times for Women in Zimbabwe
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, ZIMBABWE, Aug 10 (IPS) - Zimbabwe's ballooning informal sector has, in recent years, spawned the over-exploitation of the country's natural resources, with the fisheries taking some of the most felt battering.
Taking Stock of Two Decades of Trailblazing Protocol on Womens Rights in Africa
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Aug 09 (IPS) - It promised to be the most defining, groundbreaking, and transformative protocol on African women’s rights. Specific in its approach, broad in its reach, and unique in its all-encompassing nature, covering issues such as HIV/Aids, widow inheritance and property disinheritance in a most unprecedented manner.
Mining Revenues Undermined
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug 09 (IPS) - The primary commodity price boom early this century has often been attributed to a commodity ‘super-cycle’, i.e., a price upsurge greater than what might be expected in ‘normal’ booms. This was largely due to some minerals as most agricultural commodity price increases were more modest.
France, Russia, ECOWAS in Battle for Soul of West Africa
- Inter Press Service
SOKOTO, NIGERIA, Aug 07 (IPS) - On July 26 2023 a man named Colonel-Major Amadou Abdramane, flanked by soldiers with military fatigues, appeared on Niger's national television to announce the execution of a coup. It was the country’s fourth coup since it gained independence from France in 1960.
Zimbabwean Farmers Turn to Agroecology to Feed Their Families
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, ZIMBABWE, Aug 04 (IPS) - When Nelson Mudzingwa arrived in the Shashe farming area in Mashava in Masvingo, about 294 kilometres from the capital Harare, in the early 2000s, the land was barren, with no hope that the soils could be suitable for farming.
How Nigeria's Legal System is Failing to Safeguard Widows' Rights
- Inter Press Service
SOKOTO, NIGERIA, Aug 03 (IPS) - In February this year, Chichi Okonkwo not only lost her husband but was stripped of everything they owned together. Her husband was severely injured in a car accident about a month earlier. Despite being rushed to a hospital in Enugu, where they resided, he succumbed to his injuries weeks later. To compound her grief, Okonkwo’s late husband's male siblings forcibly entered her home in the city a few hours after his passing, confiscating her husband’s land documents, car, money, clothes, and marriage certificate.
Clock Is Ticking For Food Security In Africa, Says New IITA Head
- Inter Press Service
ST DAVIDS, WALES, Aug 02 (IPS) - “My key message is really simple,” says Dr Simeon Ehui, the newly-appointed director general of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, which works with partners across sub-Saharan Africa to tackle hunger, poverty and natural resource degradation.
Women Shatter Gender Barriers in Uganda's Fish Farming Industry
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 02 (IPS) - In a groundbreaking turn of events, women in Bugiri District, Eastern Uganda, have defied societal norms and broken into the traditionally male-dominated fish farming industry.
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