Stephen Leahy
BROOKLIN, Canada, Nov 6 2006 (IPS) – Climate change will devastate Africa without substantial help from the world community, according to a new report released at the opening of a major U.N. climate change conference in Nairobi, Kenya Monday.
Africa is the least responsible for climate change but will be hit the hardest, said Nick Nuttall, spokesperson for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
New scientific data shows that Africa is more vulnerable to the impacts than previously thought, Nuttall told IPS from Nairobi.
Seventy million people and 30 percent of Africa s coastal infrastructure face the risk of coastal flooding by 2080 linked to rising sea levels, the report found. More than one-third of the habitats that support African …
Kester Kenn Klomegah
MOSCOW, Dec 1 2006 (IPS) – The budget for treatment of HIV and AIDS has been doubled in Russia, but patients are complaining they still do not have access to adequate treatment.
Chief epidemiologist Gennady Onishchencko has blamed the bureaucracy for acute shortage of AIDS/HIV medicines. A problem in the sufficiency of antiretroviral drugs in Russia exists, he said in a statement. We know about this issue and are trying to regulate it, but I will say that it won t be solved right now.
In all 11,861 people have died of AIDS in Russia in the past 20 years, the Russian Federal Consumer Protection and Human Welfare Control Service (Rospotrebnadzor) reports. More than 362,000 HIV infection cases had been registered by Nov 30, 80 percent of them aged 1…
Joyce Mulama
NAIROBI, Jan 21 2007 (IPS) – We were told to come for this celebration because it is a celebration to end poverty, Edward Njeru, driver of a tuktuk (a three-wheel vehicle used as a taxi in urban areas), said about the World Social Forum (WSF) that opened here Saturday.
He told IPS, I hope this poverty really ends. Njeru, who takes home between 14 to 43 dollars per month, barely enough to meet his needs, was with about 30 of his colleagues who paraded their colourful tuktuks in Uhuru Park, where the WSF opening ceremony took place.
Besides the tuktuks, bicycle taxi drivers displayed their boda bodas , which have become a popular means of transport in many parts of the country.
The parades of tuktuks and boda bodas reflected the theme for the sevent…
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Vesna Peric Zimonjic
BELGRADE, Feb 14 2007 (IPS) – Serbia is to implement a 10-year plan to improve mental health that declined for many in recent years of harsh isolation and transition into a market economy.
Mental health problems were something experts have warned about more than 10 years ago, particularly where young people were concerned, but it is only now that something can be done, Dr Vojislav Curcic told IPS.
Dr Curcic heads the psychiatry department of the elite Dragisa Misovic hospital in Belgrade, and was involved in the five-year research that led to the creation of the Strategy for Mental Health project, now adopted by the government.
The plan provides for complete reconstruction of seven psychiatry hospitals at a cost of 15 million dollars, and…
Moyiga Nduru
JOHANNESBURG, Mar 23 2007 (IPS) – Zimbabwe s outspoken Catholic archbishop, Pius Ncube, has volunteered to lead peaceful, mass protests to remove President Robert Mugabe from power, as Cardinal Jaime Sin did to unseat dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines more than two decades ago.
Sin made headlines around the world in 1986 after calling on a million people to form barricades to protect 300 army rebels against the advancing tanks of Marcos.
If we can get 30,000 people in the streets, Mugabe will go down, Ncube told a briefing on Zimbabwe that took place in South Africa s commercial hub of Johannesburg, Friday. I am prepared to lead the people against Mugabe. Like in the Philippines, our security forces will side with us if we are courageous.
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Sarah McGregor
JOHANNESBURG, Apr 25 2007 (IPS) – While South Africa is planning on increasing biofuels production some experts warn the move may hurt subsistence farmers and cause more hunger in impoverished areas of the country.
Proponents in the United States and Brazil say biofuels such as maize-based ethanol is a clean energy alternative that comes from resources that are renewable. However, the production of ethanol itself is energy intensive and requires fossil fuel to process and transport.
In recent years the growing appetite for biofuels, coupled with rising oil prices, has heightened demand for maize and driven up commodity prices. Hoping to cash in, South Africa is expected to soon release a biofuels policy that officials say will re-energize the agricultur…
Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO, Jun 4 2007 (IPS) – In what was hailed as a landmark ruling, the Chilean Supreme Court ordered the state to pay compensation to 356 residents affected by pollution with toxic metals in the northern city of Arica.
The authorities, meanwhile, are investigating an oil spill that occurred in mid-May in the south of the country.
Unfortunately, all of this makes something very clear: in Chile there is a lot of talk about the environment, but there is no real intention to solve the problems, Fernando Dougnac, president of the environmental group Fiscalía del Medio Ambiente (FIMA), told IPS. Environmental rules and laws are only complied with in appearance, and for commercial reasons.
The Supreme Court recently sentenced the Health Service …