IPS Inter Press Service

Jessie Boylan

LAGO DISTRICT, Mozambique - As if they were going to the races, Emma Musako and Monica Mhango showed up in their finest outfits to attend a meeting on the health, social and environmental impacts of uranium mining. They came because they, like the other attendees, no longer want to remain uninformed citizens.

RIGHTS-MALAWI: Blame Game While Children Suffer

AFRICA: Counting on Media for Good Governance

CORRUPTION-SIERRA LEONE: Anti Graft Now in the Hands of Civil Society

CLIMATE CHANGE: Divide Before You Add
Analysis by Sanjay Suri
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland - You could almost begin to divide the figures before you add them up. The numbers being advertised by way of aid to the developing world to contain carbon emissions do not quite add up. What is more certain is the division to follow.

HONDURAS: Unilateral "Unity Government" Announced; Deal "Dead"
Thelma Mejía*
TEGUCIGALPA - Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said Friday that the agreement reached last week to solve the four-month crisis triggered by a coup d'etat was "dead."

Q&A: Geert Wilders Gets a Big Email Hug
	Since the terror attacks of Sep. 11, 2001, persistent misconceptions about Islam have contributed to a dangerous climate of mistrust and disharmony between the Muslim world and the West.

CLIMATE CHANGE: Divide Before You Add

ENVIRONMENT: China’s Climate Change Plan: The Debate Goes On

AFRICA: We Are the Government
	As if they were going to the races, Emma Musako and Monica Mhango showed up in their finest outfits to attend a meeting on the health, social and environmental impacts of uranium mining. They came because they, like the other attendees, no longer want to remain uninformed citizens.

ZIMBABWE: Numerous Challenges For Harare Water Supply

DEVELOPMENT: "Africans Should Become Their Own Philanthropists"

POLITICS: U.S. Seeks to Limit Warlords in Karzai Cabinet
	The Barack Obama administration is talking tough to Afghan President Hamid Karzai about the need for decisive action on corruption and governance reform, but its main objective is to prevent particularly corrupt and incompetent warlords from getting plum ministries as rewards for helping clinch his fraudulent reelection, IPS has learned.

ENVIRONMENT: China’s Climate Change Plan: The Debate Goes On

NEPAL: Hopes High for Environmental Rights in New Constitution

CLIMATE CHANGE: Divide Before You Add
	You could almost begin to divide the figures before you add them up. The numbers being advertised by way of aid to the developing world to contain carbon emissions do not quite add up. What is more certain is the division to follow.

ENVIRONMENT-SPAIN: Improving Garbage Management

AFRICA: 'Pick Up Your Money With Your Groceries'

HONDURAS: Unilateral "Unity Government" Announced; Deal "Dead"
	Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said Friday that the agreement reached last week to solve the four-month crisis triggered by a coup d'etat was "dead."

RIGHTS-NICARAGUA: Mudslinging Match Between Gov't, Activists

LATIN AMERICA: Journalistic Prize for Making Poverty News

MIDEAST: Lessons from the Karine A -Déjà Vu All Over Again
	As Israeli Defence Forces munitions experts sorted through 300 tonnes of weapons found on a German-owned, Cypriot-operated cargo ship flying the Antiguan flag, Israeli politicians were sifting through the various talking points that could be offloaded from the vessel.

MIDEAST: Abbas Produces a Dubious Twist

POLITICS: U.N. Affirms Israeli-Hamas War Crimes Report

CLIMATE CHANGE-US: Too Little, Too Late for Copenhagen?
	The momentum that U.S. climate change legislation has picked up in recent weeks will not be enough to get it through prior to the Copenhagen climate talks that kick off Dec. 7. It has also come at a steep price for those most committed to seeing such legislation pass.

MIDEAST: Lessons from the Karine A -Déjà Vu All Over Again

U.S.: "War Comes Home" with Ft. Hood Shootings

CLIMATE CHANGE-US: Too Little, Too Late for Copenhagen?
	The momentum that U.S. climate change legislation has picked up in recent weeks will not be enough to get it through prior to the Copenhagen climate talks that kick off Dec. 7. It has also come at a steep price for those most committed to seeing such legislation pass.

AFRICA: We Are the Government

CLIMATE CHANGE: Divide Before You Add

HONDURAS: Unilateral "Unity Government" Announced; Deal "Dead"
	Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said Friday that the agreement reached last week to solve the four-month crisis triggered by a coup d'etat was "dead."

RIGHTS-NICARAGUA: Mudslinging Match Between Gov't, Activists

AFRICA: We Are the Government

U.S.: "War Comes Home" with Ft. Hood Shootings
	While investigators probe for a motive behind the mass shooting at the Fort Hood military base in Texas Thursday, in which an army psychiatrist is suspected of killing 13 people, military personnel at the base are in shock as the incident "brings the war home".

HEALTH: Uganda’s Counterfeits Bill Threatens Access to Medicine

LESOTHO: AIDS Orphans get Helping Hand

AFRICA: We Are the Government
	As if they were going to the races, Emma Musako and Monica Mhango showed up in their finest outfits to attend a meeting on the health, social and environmental impacts of uranium mining. They came because they, like the other attendees, no longer want to remain uninformed citizens.

DEVELOPMENT: "Africans Should Become Their Own Philanthropists"

Q&A: Put the New Women's Agency in Africa