Report

Oct

SOUTHERN AFRICA: Strengthen Cooperation to Secure Power

By editor | Africa, Economy, Geopolitics, Report

Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS By Thabani Okwenjani MAUN, Botswana, Oct 16, 2010 (IPS) – Southern African nations need to agree on a common operational system to manage energy in the region, environmental experts advise. If they don’t, the region could experience power shortages and resulting economic deficits. The Southern African Power…
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Oct

Q&A: Cuba’s Catholic Media Multiply, But Change Is Slow

By editor | Americas, Issues, Report

Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS HAVANA, Oct 17, 2010 (IPS) – In the context of ongoing conciliation between the Cuban government and the Roman Catholic Church, the communications media of the latter are growing quickly on this Caribbean island where the press remains under strict state control. All told, there are dozens…
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Oct

ZAMBIA: Bumper Harvest May Prove an Embarassment of Riches

By editor | Africa, Economy, Report

Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS By Kabomba Sonkolo LUSAKA, Oct 16, 2010 (IPS) – Buoyed by government’s fertiliser subsidy, Zambia’s farmers produced 2.8 million tonnes of maize in the 2009/10 growing season. Initial delight over the increased harvest – up from 1.8 million tonnes the previous year – gave way to worry…
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Oct

U.S. Weighs Endorsing Indigenous Rights Declaration

By editor | Americas, Issues, Report

Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS By Matthew O. Berger WASHINGTON, Oct 15, 2010 (IPS) – Just over three years after having voted against it at the United Nations, the United States is in the process of reviewing its position on the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The declaration lays…
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Oct

JAMAICA: Invasive Lionfish Go From Predator to Prey

By editor | Americas, Environment, Report

Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS Zadie Neufville* – IPS/IFEJ KINGSTON, Oct 12 (IPS) – Anxious to prevent the collapse of Jamaica’s overexploited marine fisheries, the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is promoting the consumption of lionfish to control its burgeoning population. At risk officials say, are the nation’s marine biodiversity, its food…
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News and Analysis

HAITI: Health Workers Scramble to Keep Cholera out of Crowded Camps

Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS By Ansel Herz PORT-AU-PRINCE, Oct 22, 2010 (IPS) – Some 1.3 million people have lived in makeshift camps throughout Port-au-Prince since the January earthquake devastated the city. Living conditions are "appalling", according a recent report by Refugees International. But one bright spot of the multi-billion-dollar relief effort,…
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BRAZIL: Environment Meets Development en Route to the Pacific

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mario Osava RIO BRANCO, Brazil, Oct 22, 2010 (IPS) – Acre, the small Brazilian state that is a symbol of the struggle to preserve the Amazon rainforest, is facing the challenge of ensuring that the development ushered in by two paved roads that will link the state…
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Cuban Treatment for Diabetic Foot Ulcers Heads for Europe

Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS By Patricia Grogg HAVANA, Oct 22, 2010 (IPS) – Cuba’s biotechnology industry is hoping to conquer the European Union market with Heberprot-P, a therapeutic drug used to prevent foot amputations in patients with diabetes. Heberprot-P, developed by the Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Centre (CIGB), stimulates tissue healing…
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Hard to Put a Price-tag on Healthy Rivers

Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS By Stephen Leahy NAGOYA, Japan, Oct 22, 2010 (IPS) – Damming a river may bring electric power, but it often comes at the price of high-quality food fisheries, experts say. When dams are proposed for power, flood control or irrigation, the often devastating impacts on fisheries in…
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U.S.: Report Details Tea Party Ties with Hate Groups

Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS By William Fisher NEW YORK, Oct 21, 2010 (IPS) – Asserting that "the majority of Tea Party supporters are sincere, principled people of good will", the head of the National Association of Colored People (NAACP) and other U.S. civil rights leaders are calling on the populist political…
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CHINESE SUPPRESSION OF TIBETAN LANGUAGE LEADS TO PROTESTS

GNB’s Global Analyst B.RAMAN In the wake of the first Xinjiang Work Conference held at Beijing from May 17 to 19, 2010, to draft a blueprint for the Chinese-controlled province’s economic development until 2020, the Chinese authorities had embarked on a campaign in Xinjiang, which de-emphasised the Uighur ethnic identity of the province and highlighted…
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AGENDA FOR OBAMA’S VISIT: COUNTER-TERRORISM

GNB’s Global Analyst B.RAMAN Indo-US co-operation in counter-terrorism has the following components: * Assistance in capacity building in traditional counter-terrorism: Started in the early 1980s during the administration of Ronald Reagan when some officers of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and the Research & Analysis Wing (R&AW) were sent initially to the UK and then…
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CHINA: On the Thousand Mothers March

Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS By Ida Karlsson STOCKHOLM, Oct 20, 2010 (IPS) – Rebiya Kadeer has taken up a campaign for the rights of a people usually far from world headlines: the Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority in China. Before she was arrested and imprisoned for nearly six years for criticising…
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MIDEAST: Earning a Living in No Man’s Land

Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS By Mel Frykberg EREZ BORDER CROSSING, Northern Gaza, Oct 19, 2010 (IPS) – Crossing through the metal-caged tunnel that leads from the Israeli side of the border into northern Gaza towards the Palestinian checkpoint, several groups of young Palestinian men and boys can be seen scavenging through…
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PERU: A Highway Built to Be Flooded

Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS PUNO, Peru, Oct 19, 2010 (Tierramérica) – Construction workers are fighting the clock to finish the last stretch of the Southern Inter-Oceanic Highway, in southeastern Peru, apparently unaware that about 100 kilometres of this road connecting to Brazil will be covered by water once the Inambari hydroelectric…
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