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It’s the Day to Buy Votes in Swaziland
Swaziland goes to the polls for the second and final round of voting in its elections on Sept. 20, 2013. Credit: Mantoe Phakathi/IPS As Swaziland goes to the polls for the second and final round of...
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Q&A: Faith Groups as Partners in Development
Azza Karam, Senior Advisor on Culture at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). UN Photo/Paulo FilgueirasThe United Nations is considered one of the world’s most secular institutions, with 193...
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Cuban Athletes Score against Violence
Football is gaining ground among the young in baseball-crazed Cuba. Credit: Jorge Luis Baños/IPS It is unusual to see Cuban sports legends in public service announcements. However, a handful of...
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U.S. Proposes Landmark Cap on CO2 from Power Plants
Power plants are the single largest sources of carbon pollution in the United States. Credit: BigstockRegulators here have taken the first major step of President Barack Obama’s second term to scale...
View ArticleHard Times for Iran Hawks
Just three weeks ago, Washington’s hawks, particularly of the pro-Israel neo-conservative variety, were flying high, suddenly filled with hope. President Barack Obama, having trapped himself with his...
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It’s Afghanistan Again in a Turkish Town
Afghans in the small Turkish border town Ceylanpinar. Credit: Karlos Zurutuza/IPS.People run back home at dusk, just when the shooting intensifies. To Sha Mehmed the experience is familiar. He was 11...
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Robin Hood Activists Take Aim at Wall Street
Five years after the 2008 world financial crisis and two years after the Occupy movement it triggered, U.S. critics of the financial sector are coalescing around the idea of a Robin Hood Tax on...
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Boats of Hope Head for Australian Rocks
A police officer on the lookout at a spot near the southern town Galle often used by people to board boats to Australia. Credit: Amantha Perera/IPS.It was a decision based on simple sums. Ananda, 28,...
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Terrorists Rob Somalia of Healthcare
Medical officials in Somalia say that the withdrawal of international medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières from the country will have negative impact on lives of hundreds of thousands of people and...
View ArticlePhilippines Struggles With Muslim Rebels
With the administration of Philippines President Benigno Aquino III devoting much of its political capital to resolving the conflict in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, which has claimed...
View ArticleIsrael Silent on Chemical Weapons
“Does Israel have chemical weapons too?” is the question posed by the U.S. publication Foreign Policy, citing a newly uncovered CIA document from 1983 which alleged that Israel is likely to have...
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Trinidad’s Farmers Outpaced by Climate Change
The remains of shade houses that one farmer attempted to build to protect his crops from the effects of climate change. He subsequently abandoned the project after the Trinidad and Tobago government...
View ArticleGambia Media Crackdown Continues
Last July marked 19 years of Gambian President Yahya Jammeh’s inordinately long rule. His legacy during this time is to mark his country as one of the most unapologetically repressive states in Africa....
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Kenya Forces Mount Assault to End Mall Siege
A mother and her children protect themselves pretending to be dead in Westgate mall. Credit: Al JazeeraHeavy and sustained gunfire has been heard from the Nairobi mall where the Al-Qaeda-linked Somali...
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Making Local People Stewards of the Earth
The Bhumia tribal community practices sustainable forestry: these women returning from the forest carry baskets of painstakingly gathered tree bark and dried cow dung for manure. Credit: Manipadma...
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Speculation over Iran-U.S. Détente Continues Apace
President Barack Obama talks with Amb. Samantha Power, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Sept. 12, 2013. Credit: White House Photo by Pete SouzaOn the eve of a possible – if...
View ArticleNairobi Attack Exposes Flawed U.S. Terror Policies
In the aftermath of the worst terror attack in East Africa in three years, foreign policy scholars here are urging the U.S. government to rethink its counter-terror policy in the region. As the number...
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From Tanzania to Brazil in the Hold of a Ship
Ornela Mbenga Sebo during the interview with IPS in Rio de Janeiro. Credit: Fabíola Ortiz/IPSOrnela Mbenga Sebo, a young Congolese woman, escaped in 2011 from a rebel camp in Tanzania where she was...
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Cracks Widen Among Syrian Rebels
An FSA fighter has to look out on many fronts now. Credit: Shelly Kittleson/IPSScorching flames from a makeshift oil refinery sting eyes and the fumes choke throats near the top of a hill in...
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Ladakh Invites New Scarcities
Tourism is adding to the strain on natural resources in Leh. Credit: thar Parvaiz/IPS The Ladakh of today is a different world from the one Skarma Namgiyal remembers as a child. Back then, he had taken...
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