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  1. GHANA: Indecisive On Small Arms Control

    IPS Inter Press Service - West Africa - Dec 4, 2008

    ACCRA, Dec 4 (IPS) - It is estimated that there are eight million small arms in circulation in the West African subregion, with grave consequences for the region's security.

  2. EAST AFRICA: Plan to Integrate Bourses Despite Hesitant Tanzania

    IPS Inter Press Service - Africa - Dec 4, 2008

    NAIROBI, Dec 4 (IPS) - Despite Tanzania’s resistance to cross-border investment, a position that contradicts the East African Community Customs Management Act, plans are going ahead to integrate the three major bourses

  3. EAST AFRICA: Plan to Integrate Bourses Despite A Hesitant Tanzania

    IPS Inter Press Service - Dec 4, 2008

    NAIROBI, Dec 4 (IPS) - Despite Tanzania’s resistance to cross-border investment, a position that contradicts the East African Community Customs Management Act, plans are going ahead to integrate the three major bourses

  4. AUSTRALIA: Homeless World Cup - More Than Football

    IPS Inter Press Service - Dec 4, 2008

    MELBOURNE, Dec 4 (IPS) - While the action has been fast and furious among the 56 teams competing in the 2008 Homeless World Cup -- a football tournament in which homeless and marginalised people from around the world

  5. TANZANIA: Poverty Reduction Slow Despite Economic Growth

    IPS Inter Press Service - Dec 4, 2008

    DAR ES SALAAM, Dec 4 (IPS) - Tanzania is lagging behind on key development goals for safe water, income and health, even though the east African nation has benefited from a growing economy over the last few years

  6. DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Celebrating Sanitation

    IPS Inter Press Service - Politics - Dec 3, 2008

    KURUKSHETRA, Haryana State, Dec 4 (IPS) - Everywhere there was the seductively deep bass sound of Indian drums as crowds of local villagers shouted ‘Jai Swachhta’ (long live cleanliness) and punched the air.

  7. ENVIRONMENT: Native Peoples Out in Cold at Warming Meet

    IPS Inter Press Service - Dec 3, 2008

    UNITED NATIONS, Dec 3 (IPS) - Global efforts to combat climate change will lead nowhere as long as the indigenous peoples' representatives have no say in discussions to lay out future plans, say activists who are

  8. ENVIRONMENT: Modified Habitats Pose Threat of Zoonotic Diseases

    IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs - Dec 3, 2008

    MÉRIDA, Mexico, Dec 3 (IPS) - A breakout of yellow fever among monkeys caught authorities in Argentina and Brazil, and the Pan-American Health Organisation (PAHO), off-guard in October.

  9. CHILE: Salmon Industry Workers Demand Subsidies

    IPS Inter Press Service - Environment - Dec 3, 2008

    SANTIAGO, Dec 3 (IPS) - Workers in Chile’s salmon industry are demanding that the national government grant assistance to thousands of the sector’s workers who have been laid off due to the sanitary crisis affecting

  10. ECONOMY: Companies Warned to Go Green or Go Under

    IPS Inter Press Service - North America - Dec 3, 2008

    NEWYORK, Dec 3 (IPS) - If companies in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector do not implement sustainable environmental strategies, their earnings could be cut in half by 2018, according to a future scenario

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