IDN InDepthNews informs on topics related to globalization, global governance and international cooperation http://indepthnews.net/area2.php?key=AF Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:59:32 +0100 http://indepthnews.net/images/rechts.jpg http://indepthnews.net/area2.php?key=AF 292 117 IDN InDepthNews | Analysis That Matters de-de rjaura@globalommedia.com(Ramesh Jaura) jbusse@globalommedia.com(Joerg-Werner Busse) 60 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-09-19%2022:59:32&key2=1 BY NIRODE MASSON IDN-InDepthNews Service ZURICH (IDN) - A new study highlights an important yet often ignored aspect of economic divides between the developed and developing countries. While in most developed economies, it is relatively easy for individuals and business to obtain credit or use affordable banking services, for developing economies this is not yet the case. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-09-19%2022:59:32&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-09-02%2009:20:37&key2=1 BY BABUKAR KASHKA IDN-InDepthNews Service NAIROBI (IDN) - Africa, the world's richest continent in natural resources, has been the scene of the highest number of armed conflicts, mostly triggered and fuelled by foreign powers and corporations. How to resolve these conflicts has been the key issue on the agenda of African leaders during their two-day summit in Libya. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-09-02%2009:20:37&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-08-30%2020:31:59&key2=1 BY JAYA RAMACHANDRAN IDN-InDepth News Service BERLIN (IDN) - India, China and 53 African countries - together home to more than half of the world's population -- have opened what may turn out to be a new chapter in the history of international climate diplomacy as the clock ticks down to Copenhagen. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-08-30%2020:31:59&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-08-27%2008:20:28&key2=1 BY TARO ICHIKAWA IDN-InDepth News Service TOKYO (IDN) - Japan has agreed on a landmark joint venture with Brazil -- home to the largest Japanese population outside of Japan. The project is purported to bring about 'change' in Mozambique, a former Portuguese colony in southeastern Africa by transforming the savannah into arable farmland and help Mozambique attain food security. This is the first program Japan and Brazil are undertaking in Africa. Government officials from Japan and Brazil are due to meet in Mozambique in September . . . http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-08-27%2008:20:28&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-08-22%2010:36:43&key2=1 BY FAREED MAHDY IDN-InDepthNews Service Special Correspondent CAIRO (IDN) - Africa, the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent after Asia has now become the world's largest nuclear free zone comprising 53 countries with about one billion people. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-08-22%2010:36:43&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-08-13%2001:17:01&key2=1 BY LILLIAN ALUANGA* IDN-InDepthNews Service BERLIN/NAIROBI (IDN) - Environmental experts are warning of an impending humanitarian disaster in Africa, emerging from creeping desertification. If unchecked, it would undo remarkable social and economic progress achieved over decades and wipe millions off the face of the continent. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-08-13%2001:17:01&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-08-08%2012:50:53&key2=1 BY AZIZI F. DIALLO IDN-InDepthNews Service BERLIN (IDN) - "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil." This proverbial principle embodied by the legendary three wise monkeys is coming in handy to all parties -- foreign companies, their governments in Britain and Belgium, and donors and diplomats -- involved in a murderous mineral trade in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-08-08%2012:50:53&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-07-17%2009:21:40&key2=1 BY ERNEST COREA WASHINGTON DC (IDN) - The troubled India-Pakistan relationship, aggravated by the terrorist attack on Mumbai, moved towards positive improvement when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India and Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani Prime Minister of Pakistan, met on the sidelines of the 15th Summit of the 118-member Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), which was held in Sharm el Sheikh, July 11-16. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-07-17%2009:21:40&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-06-16%2001:34:13&key2=1 BY JEROME MWANDA NAIROBI (IDN) - The UN Millennium Campaign is calling on African states, civil society organisations and the private sector to tackle child and maternal mortality, school dropout, gender inequality in the universal primary education and poor quality standards of that programme. Some 50,000 African children under the age of five years will be losing their lives as a result of preventable or curable diseases. 38 million children of primary school age in Africa will still remain out of school, says the Campaign that coincides with the Day of the African Child on June 16. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-06-16%2001:34:13&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-05-20%2017:23:38&key2=1 BY SUMAN J. CHANDER WASHINGTON (IDN) - 'AfPak' is a new addition to the security lexicon, which stands for a coordinated Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy. Coined by President Barack Obama's administration, its key element is troop increases in Afghanistan and broader cooperation with Pakistan focusing on non-military aid. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-05-20%2017:23:38&key2=1