Please click here for Part One of this article. By Ye Ruolin and Yuan Ye * SHANGHAI (IDN | China Dialogue) — The Hunanese experience and other cases demonstrate how this vision may prove difficult to realise. The Baihetan dam, currently under construction on the Jinsha River straddling the border of Sichuan and Yunnan provinces, […]
China’s Growing Network of Ultra-High Voltage Power Lines Has Hit Its Fair Share of Snags — Part One
By Ye Ruolin and Yuan Ye * SHANGHAI (IDN | China Dialogue) — With few coal reserves to call its own and winter rains too erratic to rely on hydropower, central China’s Hunan province had long faced frequent electricity blackouts, an annoyance to residents and a hindrance to economic growth. So, when an ultra-high voltage […]
Internal Conflict Over Carbon Neutral China by 2060
Viewpoint by Alexander Kallweit Last year, President Xi Jinping announced ambitious climate targets. But China’s reluctant state apparatus struggles to reconcile high growth and climate policy, writes Dr Alexander Kallweit, who heads the office of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Beijing. Previously, he led the foundation’s International Dialogue Department in Berlin. This article first appeared in the […]
Fire Through Sierra Leone Leaves Thousands Without Shelter
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — A scorching blaze that turned a crowded neighbourhood of Sierra Leone’s capital city into rubble and ashes has left an estimated 4,500 residents homeless with many searching for missing family. The inferno which broke out on March 24 between 7 and 10 p.m. in Susan’s […]
Extremist Groups’ Attacks on Civilians in Niger Condemned
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — “Multiple senseless attacks” on civilian populations by armed groups in the Tahoua and Tilabery regions of Niger were condemned by world leaders and the International Rescue Committee (IRC) which noted the recent killings of some 200 civilians including children in the violence. In the last […]
Relaxed Public Health Measures Trigger New Wave of COVID-19 in Africa
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — Africa is experiencing a second coronavirus wave more severe than the first, according to a worrying new study published on March 24 by the medical journal The Lancet. The Lancet said one reason for the rise was that some countries were implementing fewer public health […]
UNHRC’s Sri Lanka Resolution Viewed as Intrusive Intervention
By Kalinga Seneviratne* SYDNEY (IDN) — “The Core Group chaired by the UK tabled a shoddy motion based on a hostile UNHRC Report riddled with factual errors and unproven allegations going back to 2009; none of which qualifies as robust evidence,” said Lord Naseby. Conservative party member and the President of the All-Party Parliamentary UK-Sri […]
Development Needs to Come from The People
By Jones Ntaukira KAPITA, Malawi (IDN) — Most development agencies fail because they don’t listen to the people and end up imposing projects on people. This is an important lesson I learned over 10 years working as a development worker here with Empower Malawi. I joined the Empower Malawi team in 2010 as a fresh […]
Congo Opposition Candidate Dies of COVID-19
By Lia Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — Another African leader has lost the fight for his life—this time in a private hospital in Brazzaville, where he was last seen lifting up his oxygen mask and warning his supporters that he is “fighting death.” Family members of Guy Brice Parfait Kolelas—the leading opposition […]
Egyptian Feminist Writer, Activist and Physician Dies
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — Over the course of a lifetime spent fighting for women’s rights and equality, Nawal El Saadawi inspired generations of women even while she faced threats against her life and imprisonment. Aged 89, she died on March 21 in a Cairo hospital after a long illness.