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Libya’s Deserts a Source of Worry for its Neighbours

By Maryline Dumas
All eyes have turned to Libya since Nigerien President Mahamadou Issoufou’s statement claiming that recent attacks in north Niger were perpetrated by Malian terrorists based in south Libya.

Q&A: Women Hardest Hit by Growing Austerity Measures

By Thalif Deen
The widespread financial crisis in Europe, and its negative fallout in the developing world, has triggered severe austerity measures worldwide.

Behind the Climate Finance Headlines

By Smita Nakhooda
Developed countries report that they delivered more than 33 billion dollars in Fast Start Finance (known as FSF), beyond the pledges they made at COP 15 in Copenhagen in 2009. Recent analysis suggests that the funding delivered may have exceeded 38 billion dollars.  But that is not the whole story.

Are Developing Countries Waving or Drowning?

By Yilmaz Akyüz
More than five years since the outbreak of the global financial crisis, the world economy has shown few signs of stabilising and moving towards strong and sustained growth.

Survivors of WWII Massacre in Italy Persist in Quest for Justice

By Silvia Giannelli and Katharina Michael
Enrico Pieri was ten when German SS soldiers attacked his home village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Italy on Aug. 12, 1944 in a massacre that left 560 people, mostly women and children, dead.

Kenya’s Flower Farms No Bed of Roses

By David Njagi
Catherine Mumbi knows the difficulties of working in Kenya’s flower sector. She was fired as a casual worker at a flower farm after taking time off to recover from complications of the liver. But that was just the start of her problems.

Iceland Renews Push for Aluminium Plant

By Lowana Veal
The new Icelandic government was only a day old when it announced in mid-May that it would do all it could to push ahead with the Helguvik aluminium smelter. Construction for the smelter began in in 2008 but since then has met with a variety of problems, mostly energy-related.

Making a Business Out of Water Rationing

By Jeffrey Moyo
For 61-year-old Sarah Chikwanha from water-starved Chitungwiza, a town about 25 kilometres outside Harare, Zimbabwe, there is no choice. She must buy her water from illegal water traders, whose businesses have sprung up across the country.

BOOKS: The Brothel Next Door

By Silvia Romanelli
The underground sex trade is closer to our everyday world than we may think.

Malnutrition Still Killing Three Million Children Under Five

By Sudeshna Chowdhury
Kevin’s Carter’s disturbing picture of the 1993 famine in Sudan won him a Pulitzer Prize.

Ethiopia’s Protest Leaders Say No Change in Government

By William Lloyd-George
Despite speculation that the first anti-government protest in eight years, which was held this week in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, might signal new levels of political tolerance by the government, leaders of the political party that organised the protest say this cannot be further from the truth.

Looking to Cameroon’s Women Senators

By Dorine Ekwe
Marlyse Aboui, a 40-year-old nurse, has still not gotten over the astonishment she felt when she heard that Cameroon’s President Paul Biya had nominated her to the senate.

Rice Replaces Donilon as Obama’s Top Foreign Policy Adviser

By Jim Lobe and Thalif Deen
In a reshuffle of top foreign policy posts in his second term, U.S. President Barack Obama Wednesday announced that his controversial and blunt-spoken U.N. ambassador, Susan Rice, will replace Tom Donilon as his national security adviser.

U.S. Denounces Egyptian NGO Trial Results

By Cydney Hargis
President Barack Obama’s administration and several major rights groups are reacting with frustration to the decision of an Egyptian court, announced Tuesday night, to convict 43 civil society organisations and 16 U.S. employees of illegal use of foreign funds.

Turkey’s Excessive Neo-liberalism Threatens ‘Peace at Home’

By Jacques N. Couvas
"Peace at home, peace in the world" is the official motto of the Turkish Republic. Coined in 1931 by the republic's founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, it implies a causal relationship, but the events this week in Istanbul and dozens of other cities of Turkey suggest that causality can work in reverse order, too.

Overcoming “Strategic Suspicion” – Goal of Obama-Xi Summit

By Jim Lobe
This week’s relatively informal and unscripted summit between the presidents of the United States and China on a private estate in southern California is being welcomed by most analysts here as a virtually unprecedented opportunity for each side to gain a better understanding of the strategic aims of the other.

Children Help Take Care of Havana Bay

By Ivet González
On a piece of paper, Jennifer Rivas draws a beach, with little girls carrying bags of trash and signs that say “Let’s take care of the environment.” The 10-year-old is part of an educational programme, Friends of the Bay, that involves 322 schools in the Cuban capital.

French Town Makes Environment Everyone’s Business

By A. D. McKenzie
Christina E. is a mother of three who lives in an apartment building in an upscale neighbourhood in Paris. As someone who prepares meals daily, she wishes she had a place besides her household garbage bin where she could put biodegradable waste.

Shift in Latin America’s Approach to Drugs – from Security to Health Issue

By Louisa Reynolds
The drug problem should be tackled not as a security issue but as a public health question, with policies for "prevention, treatment and rehabilitation," delegations from the 34 countries participating in the 43rd General Assembly of the Organisation of American States agreed.

In Besieged Refugee Camp, Syrian Medics Struggle to Provide

By Mutawalli Abou Nasser
It was nine in the morning when the shell landed in front of nine-year-old Hella al-Abtah's house in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus. Hella survived the initial blast but was critically wounded in the head, and her father rushed her to the Palestine Hospital, blood pouring from the laceration.

46 Years on, Arab-Israeli War Still Leaving Its Mark

By Pierre Klochendler
Majda el-Batsch was eight years old in June 1967 when she heard about the war that year. "I didn't know what war meant," she recalled. More than four decades later, the Palestinian reporter is still grappling with the meaning of what is known as the Six-Day War.
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