Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Selina Rust UNITED NATIONS, Mar 31 (IPS) – The world’s 49 least developed countries (LDCs), described as the poorest of the poor, could feel the effects of the global economic crisis for decades, a senior U.N. official warned this week. Under-Secretary-General Cheick Sidi Diarra told IPS that if the [...]
U.S.: Obama Approves New Coastal Oil Drilling
March 31, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Eli Clifton WASHINGTON, Mar 31 (IPS) – U.S. President Barack Obama announced on Wednesday his administration’s plan to expand the areas off the U.S. coast which will be eligible for oil and natural gas drilling, as environmental groups condemned the plan as damaging to the oceans and coastal ecosystems. [...]
RIGHTS-SIERRA LEONE: Journalists Under Attack
March 31, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Mohamed Fofanah FREETOWN, Mar 30 (IPS) – Sierra Leone has become a place of torment for journalists practicing their profession. Recently 10 journalists were manhandled and beaten during the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party’s (SLPP) delegate’s conference. At the conference, the delegates had a disagreement during their debate to [...]
BURMA: In Opting for Poll Boycott, Suu Kyi’s Party Goes for Broke
March 31, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Mar 31, 2010 (IPS) – If Burma’s military regime goes ahead with its promised general election this year, some 27.2 million voters will be deprived of the chance to cast a ballot for the political party that has come to symbolise democratic hope in that [...]
CHECHEN TERRORISM: AN UPDATE
March 31, 2010 By
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO. 637 Global Geopolitics Net Sites B.RAMAN The hasty return of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to Moscow from his tour of Siberia speaks of the seriousness with which he views the two suicide bombings in the Moscow Metro on the morning of March 29,2010, for which responsibility is reported to have [...]
A Youthful Minister From India’s Garo Hills
March 31, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN By Ramesh Jaura IDN-InDepth NewsPortrait MANILA (IDN) – She can easily pass off as a university student. Not only because she is rather young-looking and unpretentious but also because she is dressed so simple that you would not associate her with the keynote speaker at the opening of the [...]
Russia Goes Uranium Mining Around the World
March 31, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN By Alexandra Terentieva IDN-InDepth NewsInterview MOSCOW (IDN) – Russia’s hunger for uranium is apparently insatiable. In fact, Vadim Zhivov, the director general of ARMZ Uranium Holding Company (ARMZ), AKA Atomredmetzoloto – one of the leaders in the world uranium mining industry – fears that the country might be faced [...]
RIGHTS: Two-Thirds of Boys in Afghan Jails Are Brutalised, Study Finds
March 30, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, Mar 30, 2010 (IPS) – Nearly two of every three male juveniles arrested in Afghanistan are physically abused, according to a study based on interviews with 40 percent of all those now incarcerated in the country’s juvenile justice system. The study, carried out by U.S. [...]
COLOMBIA: FARC Calls for Prisoner Swap After Releasing Moncayo
March 30, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Helda Martínez BOGOTÁ, Mar 30, 2010 (IPS) – Hopes that a humanitarian prisoner-for-hostage swap may be negotiated in Colombia before August added to the emotion over the release of Sergeant Pablo Emilio Moncayo by the FARC guerrillas Tuesday and his reunion with his family after more than 12 [...]
IRAQ: Uphill Coalition-Building Battle for Winners Unfolds
March 29, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Mohammed A. Salih WASHINGTON, Mar 29, 2010 (IPS) – Iraq’s major political forces are beginning what is likely to be a lengthy and uncertain process of talks to form a government. A key question is whether Iraq’s politically diverse groups will join forces together based on ideological, ethnic, [...]
