Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Danielle Batist* JUBA, Jul 7, 2011 (IPS/Street News Service) – In their hundreds of thousands they have crossed the border, arriving by boat, bus or on foot. After decades of civil war with the north, South Sudanese have come back home to witness the birth of their [...]
SRI LANKA: Peace Dividend Skips Remote Villages
May 29, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Amantha Perera UNNICHCHAI, Sri Lanka, May 28, 2011 (IPS) – The road to Unnichchai in eastern Sri Lanka makes for a nerve-wracking journey trying to avoid large crater-like potholes, squeezing across narrow bridges, and passing by a patchwork landscape of paddy fields – both abandoned and cultivated [...]
G8: ‘Arab Spring Could Lead to African Drought’
May 29, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By A.D.McKenzie DEAUVILLE, France, May 28, 2011 (IPS) – Stressing that there is only so much money to go around, development experts worry that the aid package the Group of Eight (G8) has announced for North Africa may mean fewer funds for the rest of the continent. During [...]
Pakistan Fighting Off U.S. Aid
May 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Zofeen Ebrahim KARACHI, May 23, 2011 (IPS) – The killing of Osama Bin Laden on May 2 in a covert operation by the United States has prompted strident calls by many in Pakistan to see it as a lesson for the country to stand on its feet, [...]
JAPAN: Difficult Shift From Aid Donor to Recipient
April 13, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Suvendrini Kakuchi TOKYO, Apr 13, 2011 (IPS) – April has traditionally being the time for ‘hanami’ or cherry blossom festivals here when millions of Japanese hold parties under the pink flowering trees in parks and streets lit up gaily by lanterns. But, one month after the earthquake [...]
HAITI: Seeding Reconstruction or Destruction?
April 1, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Correspondents* PORT-AU-PRINCE, Apr 1, 2011 (IPS/Haiti Grassroots Watch) – Last year, tens of thousands of tonnes of tools, seeds and plant cuttings were distributed to almost 400,000 Haitian farming families, perhaps one-third to one-half of the country’s farming population. The 20-million-dollar programme – spearheaded by the U.N. [...]
UN Launches Concerted Bid to Assist Japan
March 18, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Jaya Ramachandran IDN-InDepth NewsReport GENEVA (IDN) – As Japan battles to stave off a nuclear catastrophe, the United Nations has launched a concerted bid to help the East Asian country to cope with the multi-front disaster that Prime Minister Naoto Kan has called Japan’s worst since [...]
Aid Agencies Rush to Japan’s Humanitarian Front
March 16, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Kanya D’Almeida UNITED NATIONS, Mar 15, 2011 (IPS) – Day five of Japan’s post-earthquake, post-tsunami life dawned dismally Tuesday, with soaring radiation levels from the Fukushima Daiichi power plants and a relentlessly rising death toll in the four worst-affected prefectures. When the 9.0 earthquake first hit Japan, [...]
LIBYA: Aid Groups Struggle with Rising Tide of Refugees
March 7, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Aprille Muscara UNITED NATIONS, Mar 7, 2011 (IPS) – The international community is ramping up efforts to alleviate the growing humanitarian crisis in Libya, with has affected over 200,000 people since the Muammar Gaddafi regime first began a violent crackdown on opposition forces some three weeks ago. [...]
Bill Would Aid Afghan Women Caught in U.S.-led War
February 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Cléo Fatoorehchi NEW YORK, Feb 22, 2011 (IPS) – As conflict continues to rage in Afghanistan, the U.S. Congress is gearing up to debate a bill that could support the country’s long-oppressed women in their struggle to achieve gender equality, even in the years after the U.S. [...]
