Green Energy The Only Non-Exploited Resource In Africa
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By Babukar Kashka
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NAIROBI (IDN) – Paradoxically, Africa — the continent most exploited by giant corporations that plunder its natural resources, and the one which contributes the least to global warming — is now urged to further produce green energy and implement more climate-friendly projects.
In fact, a Nairobi-based UN Environment [...]
2009 Trade Deficit Reduction Masks Serious US Competitiveness Deficiencies
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Alan Tonelson
The details of the final 2009 trade figures hold two important lessons for both supporters and many opponents of current U.S. trade policies. The first: However critically important trade deficit reduction is, it’s just as important to do it [...]
TANZANIA: Weather Changes Turn Farming into Gamble with Nature
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Denis Gathanju
DAR-ES-SALAAM, Mar 10 (IPS) – Changes in weather patterns have turned agriculture into a gamble with nature for Tanzanian farmers. Prolonged droughts and floods have made the lives of small-scale farmers, who don’t have access to irrigation, extremely difficult.
In Tanzania, where the economy is largely driven [...]
RIGHTS: Africa’s Success Stories in Gender Empowerment
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Thalif Deen* – IPS/TerraViva
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 10 (IPS) – Whenever gender empowerment is a vibrant topic of discussion internationally, some of the countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America are invariably singled out for their success stories in politics, education, health care or civil liberties even as Africa [...]
SINGAPORE: As Casino Opens, Watch for Its Social Impact Begins
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By Stanislaus Jude Chan
SINGAPORE, Mar 10, 2010 (IPS) – An unfamiliar sight in Singapore – that of vehicles with foreign licence plates filling the car park – meets visitors at the basement of the city-state’s first casino, which opened nearly a month ago.
But surprises are to be [...]
KENYA: New Bill to Improve State Witness Protection, If Passed
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Mary Kiio
NAIROBI, Mar 10 (IPS) – Kenyans affected by the violence that erupted after the country’s disputed presidential elections in 2007 may soon be able to speak out without fear. A new bill will offer better protection to state witnesses.
The Witness Protection (Amendment) Bill 2010, if passed [...]
POLITICS: Sri Lanka Locks Horns with UN over Experts’ Panel
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Amantha Perera
COLOMBO, Mar 10 (IPS) – The war of words between the Sri Lankan government and the United Nations has begun all over again, this time over the creation of an experts’ panel on the island’s human rights record.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon wants to appoint this panel, [...]
MIDEAST: Iran, Israel Spoiling for a Fight?
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Analysis by Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH, Mar 10 (IPS) – Iran and Israel appear to be spoiling for a fight, going by recent belligerent statements emanating from several regional capitals.
Military movement on the ground is also lending credence to the idea that the mutual loathing and major ideological differences [...]
ENVIRONMENT-UGANDA: Landslides and floods – Experts Warn Worst is Yet to Come
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Joshua Kyalimpa
KAMPALA, Mar 9 (IPS) – Fourteen-year-old Isaac Wadyegere of Bundesi village in Bududa district woke up to a rainy and chilly Monday morning and went to school as usual.
But Mar. 1 was not a usual day in Bududa district in eastern Uganda. When he [...]
ENVIRONMENT: Violent Backlash Against Climate Scientists
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Stephen Leahy* – Tierramérica
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Mar 9 (IPS) – Climate change science has come under full-scale attack in a last-ditch effort to delay or prevent action by the U.S. government against global warming, experts warn.
U.S. Senator James Inhofe, Republican from Oklahoma and climate change denier, in late [...]
PERU: Suspension of Mining Operation Merely a Placebo
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Milagros Salazar
LIMA, Mar 9 (IPS) – Although the Peruvian government reported that it had suspended the exploration activities of the Afrodita mining company in the country’s northern Amazon jungle region to avoid further protests by local indigenous people, officials took no actual steps to bring the firm’s work [...]
FINANCE: Self-Policing of Extractive Industries a ”Dismal” Failure
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Charles Fromm
WASHINGTON, Mar 9 (IPS) – An international initiative that seeks to reform how governments profit from their natural resources should not reduce its existing standards of membership solely because candidate countries have been reluctant or incapable of meeting them, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday.
Twenty out of the [...]
MEDIA-NEPAL: Self-Censorship Creeping Up After Killings
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Bhuwan Sharma – Asia Media Forum
KATHMANDU, Mar 9 (IPS) – The climate of fear that has been growing in this Himalayan country since the murder of two media entrepreneurs and other attacks on journalists may well push them to turn to more self-censorship.
While many are used to [...]
POLITICAL REFORMS IN CHINESE COLOURS
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B.RAMAN
After successfully carrying forward and implementing the policy of economic reforms initiated by Deng Xiaoping in 1978, the time has come to think in terms of initiating a policy of political reforms to give a greater voice to the people and the media in articulating their views on the policies [...]
