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Baka Caught in the Maze of Modernism
Baka children in Cameroon sit in front of a hut called a 'mongolou'. Credit: Ngala Killian Chimtom/IPSMINDOUROU, Cameroon, Dec 30 2013 (IPS) Essomba Dominique, a Baka man from Mindourou in Cameroon’s...
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Barren Fields Recover From Taliban
Many farmers are struggling to revive agriculture from the losses under the Taliban. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPS.PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Dec 30 2013 (IPS) Ahmed Nawaz, a 55-year-old farmer in northwestern...
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Growing Number of Private Operators in Cuban Education
Students of communication at the University of Havana. Public education is suffering from the effects of the ongoing economic crisis. Credit: Jorge Luis Baños/IPSHAVANA, Dec 30 2013 (IPS) Cuba’s state...
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Tallying Losses, St. Vincent Begins Repairs After Deadly Flood
St. Vincent Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves (centre) chairs a meeting to discuss reconstruction following deadly floods on Dec. 24. At left is his Antiguan counterpart, Baldwin Spencer. Credit: Desmond...
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Cuba’s Reforms Don’t Believe in Tears
Saturday night at El Madrigal, a private bar in the upscale Havana neighbourhood of Vedado, Cuba. Credit: Jorge Luis Baños/IPSHAVANA, Dec 30 2013 (IPS) The landscape is changing in Cuba’s cities and...
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Pakistani NGOs Fear New Year Constraints
Pakistani NGOs fear that a new law will restrict civil society freedom. Credit: Irfan Ahmed/IPS.LAHORE, Pakistan, Dec 31 2013 (IPS) A new policy by the Pakistani government to regulate foreign-funded...
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Kenya’s Excess of Policies Can’t Deal With Climate Change
The long rains stopped earlier than expected in Kenya this year and in some areas taps have run dry and rain-fed agriculture has been affected. Credit: Miriam Gathigah/IPSNAIROBI, Dec 31 2013 (IPS)...
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Mexican Communities On Guard Against Thirst for Oil
Bird covered with oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: Susan Keith/IPSMEXICO CITY, Dec 31 2013 (IPS) The Terra 123 oil and gas well in the southeastern Mexican state of Tabasco was in flames since late...
View ArticleDemocracy Gets an Electronic Boost
Elections in Pakistan have long been marred by allegations of fraud, but now one of its provinces is hoping to give democracy a boost with the help of technology. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the north of the...
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Farm Forecasts Try to Decode a Capricious Climate
Kenneth Kerr, climate meteorologist at the Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological Service, explains how computer modeling is used to provide agrometeorology services to farmers. Credit: Jewel...
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A Complicated Calculus in South Sudan
Salva Kiir Mayardit (in black hat), and Riek Machar (right), bid farewell to Sudanese President Omer Hassan A. Al-Bashir, who visited Juba, South Sudan, less than a week before the South’s referendum...
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Libyan Highlanders Enforce Rule of Law
Militia commander Ziad Zabala (with a beard) poses next to three policemen at the entrance to the Jadu Police station. Credit: Karlos Zurutuza/IPSJADU, Libya , Jan 2 2014 (IPS) Everybody in this...
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Keeping the Grass Greener for African Plant Breeders
Jose Ricardo is the only sweet potato breeder in Mozambique. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPSACCRA, Ghana, Jan 2 2014 (IPS) For the few plant breeders in Africa like Vivian Oduro, working for an international...
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Seedpods Worth More than Gold in Argentina’s Arid North
Teolinda Coronel gathers ‘algarroba’ pods with her granddaughter in San Gerónimo, Santiago del Estero. Credit: Fabiana Frayssinet/IPSGUANACO SOMBRIANA, Argentina , Jan 2 2014 (IPS) Tired of the drought...
View ArticleSouth Sudan Declares Emergency in Two States
DOHA, Jan 2 2014 (Al Jazeera) South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has declared a state of emergency in two states, according to the government’s official Twitter account. The decree issued on Wednesday...
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Hospitality, Agriculture Firms Vulnerable to Human Trafficking
WASHINGTON, Jan 3 2014 (IPS) Shareholders are calling on 15 U.S.-based multinational corporations to ensure that their global supply chains are not facilitating human rights abuses, particularly labour...
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The Scramble for Kenya’s Kibera Slum
This area in Kibera Slum was among the most affected by the 2007 tribal clash. Residents fear that the controversy over land ownership in Kibera may spark similar violence. Credit: Miriam...
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Pakistan’s Polio Campaign Runs Into Taliban Wall
Former cricket captain Imran Khan administers oral polio vaccine to children in Akora Khattak in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPS.PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jan 3 2014...
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More Vehicles in Latin America – More Deaths
Vehicles and pedestrians mingle haphazardly on Bolívar avenue, one of the main arteries in Caracas, where traffic rules are regularly flouted. Credit: Raúl Límaco/IPS CARACAS, Jan 3 2014 (IPS) The...
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Many More Snakes Than Ladders for U.S. Policy in 2014
President Barack Obama, with Vice President Joe Biden, attends a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Dec. 12, 2013. Credit: Official White House Photo by Pete SouzaWASHINGTON, Jan 3 2014...
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