Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 99
An Unjustified COVID-19 Complacency -- & a 16-Billion Dollar Gap in Vaccine and Treatment Regime
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Feb 14 (IPS) - I am not sure the world will ever forgive us for worsening vaccine inequality and treatment of Africa as bad as under colonial rule.
People have become complacent about COVID-19. Our global (health) funds are fast running out of money. Vaccine inequity is getting worse.
From Zero Yield to Bumper Harvest
- Inter Press Service
BLANTYRE, MALAWI, Feb 09 (IPS) - In the past, the people of Sande Village in Chikwawa district, Malawi, would go to bed with empty stomachs even when the rest of the country harvested bumper yields.
Long-haul SADC Action Needed to Counter Mozambican Insurgency and Humanitarian Crisis
- Inter Press Service
Johannesburg, South Africa, Feb 07 (IPS) - Ongoing insecurity and an unfolding humanitarian crisis in northern Mozambique need a strategically planned response to deal decisively with the insurgency that has plagued the area since October 2017.
No Perfect Solution: Africa's Smallholder Farmers Must Use Both Traditional and New Practices
- Inter Press Service
Feb 07 (IPS) - As an agricultural and environmental scientist, I’ve worked for decades exploring the practical challenges that smallholder farmers encounter in East Africa. These include controlling weeds that can choke their crops and looking for new ways to deal with pests or diseases that threaten their harvests.
Is it Time to Bar Coup Leaders from the UN?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 04 (IPS) - A rash of military coups in Africa has resurrected a long dormant question: should leaders who take power through armed insurrections be barred from addressing the United Nations—an institution which swears by, and promotes, multi-party democracy?
End Leprosy Discrimination Now, For the Sake of Our Children
- Inter Press Service
Abuja, Nigeria, Feb 03 (IPS) - Seidu Ishaiku lives in the hope that his children will succeed. He and his family live with about 300 other residents in the Alheri leprosy colony outside Nigeria's Federal Capital Territory Abuja.
The Dilemma of Zimbabwe's Food Security Efforts
- Inter Press Service
Bulawayo, ZIMBABWE, Feb 01 (IPS) - On January 10, the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) arrested three men found with fertilizer worth about 130,000 US dollars.
Inflation Paranoia Threatens Recovery
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 01 (IPS) - Inflation hawks are winning the day. The latest ‘beggar thyself’ race to raise interest rates has begun. This ostensibly responds to the spectre of runaway inflation, supposedly retarding economic growth and progress, and thus threatening central bank ‘credibility’.
Road to COP27: Why Africa cannot be Complacent on Energy, Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 27 (IPS) - A year ago, we welcomed 2021 with a sense of cautious optimism when the newly developed vaccines promised a shift in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The focus turned towards building back better and doing things differently as many countries started to rethink and rebuild their shattered economies.
Mali must not Be a New Site for Clashes Between Global Powers
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 21 (IPS) - Last week, I was delighted to speak to the United Nations Security Council. In the ten years that my country has been experiencing conflict, violence, and instability, dozens of conferences and other international summits have been held without ever really making room for those who are mobilized on a daily basis for more social justice, the defense of human rights and achieving Malian peace.
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