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Africa’s Youth Not Lured by Unglamorous Farming

By Matthew Newsome
Ketsela Negatu is the son of an Ethiopian goat farmer living close to the country’s capital, Addis Ababa, who refuses to follow in his father’s footsteps. The 19-year-old has negative perceptions about the family profession after seeing the dim prospects a farming livelihood has offered his father. 

Afghans Set to Vote on Ethnic Lines

By Giuliano Battiston
Ethnicities will come to the fore in the Afghan elections due Saturday this week, even though it appears that the young are beginning to break away from such loyalties.

Donors Repeatedly Postpone Major Aid Effectiveness Report

By Bryant Harris
Major foreign assistance donors have once again delayed the release of a report meant to measure transparency, accountability and cooperation of aid effectiveness.

Russia Expelled From G8, but G20? Not So Fast

By Thalif Deen
When Western powers, led by the United States, decided to throw Russia out of the Group of 8 (G8) industrial nations, it was aimed at punishing and "isolating" President Vladimir Putin for his intervention in Ukraine and "annexation" of Crimea.

With U.S. Taking Off, Kyrgyzstan Mulls Selling Airports to Russia

By Asel Kalybekova
Russia’s state-run oil giant Rosneft wants to purchase a majority stake in the state-controlled company that owns all of Kyrgyzstan’s civilian airports.

Ukraine-Crimea – The Solution Is a Federation with High Autonomy

By Johan Galtung
History, not only law, matters: like how Crimea and Abkhazia-South Ossetia - basically Russian-Orthodox – became Ukrainian and Georgian, respectively.

OP-ED: Europe’s Commitment to Africa’s Children is Still Needed

By Philippe Cori
As African and European leaders meet in Brussels this week under the theme of “Investing in People, Prosperity and Peace", it is clear Africa’s greatest natural resource, its children, must be centre stage. 

What Nepal Doesn’t Know About Water

By Mallika Aryal
Water is a critical resource in Nepal’s economic development as agriculture, industry, household use and even power generation depends on it. The good news is that the Himalayan nation has plenty of water. The bad news - water abundance is seasonal, related to the monsoon months from June to September.

Wanted: Foreign Investment in Cuba

By Patricia Grogg
A new law opening Cuba up to foreign investment and a shift in the country’s relations with the European Union are aimed at seeking outside support to overcome the chronic crisis plaguing the country since the early 1990s.

IPCC Climate Report Warns of “Growing Adaptation Deficit”

By Carey L. Biron
The latest update of the world’s scientific consensus on climate change finds not only that impacts are already being felt on every continent, but also that adaptation investments are dangerously lagging.

Somali Diaspora Not Ready to Buy One-Way Tickets Home Yet

By Amy Fallon
On a Friday afternoon men wearing kamis — long white traditional robes — climb the steps to Somcity Travel, a small family business and travel agency in Kisenyi slum, in Uganda’s capital, Kampala. The agency boasts that they “fly all over the world” but to one destination in particular — Somalia.

Kyrgyzstan’s Glacial Floods a Growing Risk

By Adriane Lochner
It is a tough climb to the weather station: The trail leads across snow-covered boulder fields and steep, icy slopes. But for four researchers from Kyrgyzstan’s Geology and Mineral Resources Agency, the six-hour climb to the Adygene Glacier weather station, perched at 3,600 meters above sea level, is routine. From there, they can monitor 18 growing lakes at the glacier snout in the mountains above Bishkek.

U.S. Rejected Israeli Demand for Iran Nuclear Confession

By Gareth Porter
The Barack Obama administration appears to have rejected a deal-breaking demand by Israel for an Iranian confession to having had a covert nuclear weapons programme as a condition for completing the comprehensive nuclear agreement.

Commonwealth Works to Raise Climate Resilience on Global Agenda

By Peter Richards
As they fine-tune preparations for the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Conference in Samoa and the United Nations post-2015 development framework meeting in September, Commonwealth states are focusing on getting the international community to pay more attention to the challenges they face.

The Lady’s Allure Is Challenged

By Amantha Perera
For over a quarter of a century Uhla Min has lived under the spell of “The Lady”, the popular nickname for Nobel Peace Laureate Aung Sung Suu Kyi.

Exploring the Path Towards a Nuclear-free World

By Daisaku Ikeda
This past February, the Second Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons was held in Nayarit, Mexico, as a follow-up to the first such conference held last year in Oslo, Norway. The conclusion reached by this conference, on the basis of scientific research, was that “no State or international organisation has the capacity to address or provide the short and long term humanitarian assistance and protection needed in case of a nuclear weapon explosion.”

Côte d’Ivoire’s Middle Class – Growing or Disappearing?

By Marc-Andre Boisvert
“I’m middle class. Definitively,” Sonia Anoh, a young and independent 30-year-old Ivorian tells IPS. Anoh has a master’s degree, earns 1,470 dollars a month working in marketing, lives alone, owns a car and is now shopping for a home. 

A Call for Universal Access to Safe, Legal Abortion

By Michelle Tullo
Lawmakers and civil society leaders from over 30 countries are calling for universal access to safe, legal abortion.

Non-Nuclear Ukraine Haunts Security Summit in The Hague

By Thalif Deen
The two-day, much-ballyhooed Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) in the Netherlands, which concluded Tuesday, was politically haunted by the upheaval in Ukraine - the former Soviet republic that renounced some 1,800 of its nuclear weapons in one of the world's most successful disarmament exercises back in 1994.

Ethiopia’s Textile Manufacturers Benefit from Global Interest

By James Jeffrey
The sign for Salem’s directs you off a busy road in Addis Ababa, down a side street to a compound where multiple pairs of feet move up and down working treadles, and wooden shuttles flit back and forth, as Ethiopian sheumanoch — weavers — ply their trade.

A Honduran Paradise that Doesn’t Want to Anger the Sea Again

By Thelma Mejía
At the mouth of the Aguán river on the Caribbean coast of Honduras, a Garífuna community living in a natural paradise that was devastated 15 years ago by Hurricane Mitch has set an example of adaptation to climate change.
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