Category: Global South

Kerry A. Dolan Forbes StaffI’m an editor overseeing Forbes’ coverage of the world’s wealthiest. Isabel dos Santos attends the 75th annual Cannes film festival on May 27, 2022. The longtime president of Angola died Friday, but the financial impact of his rule lingers on. Here’s Forbes’ award-winning story on how Isabel dos Santos banked $3…

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By Pattama Kuentak KHLONG SONG, Thailand, Jul 6 2022 (IPS) – Hidden in Pathumthaini province just outside of Bangkok, 0.24 hectares of land adjacent to Seangsan temple has been turned into an urban vegetable farm managed by members of the Association of the Physically handicapped of Pathumthani. ‘Farm Samart Khon Samart’ consists of a large open…

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By Stefan Shweinfest UNITED NATIONS, Jul 8 2022 (IPS) – This week marks the mid-way point to the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development and with it the release of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals Report 2022. While we would like to trumpet success stories and report that we are on track in eradicating poverty and hunger and improving…

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By Osamu Kusumoto TOKYO, Jul 11 2022 (IPS) – Shinzo Abe, the longest-serving Prime Minister of Japan, has died. It was a murder caused by a personal grudge rather than political terrorism. And it was not a direct grudge against Mr. Abe. A religious group had supported Mr. Abe, and a murderer with a grudge against the…

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By Busani Bafana Bulawayo, Jul 11 2022 (IPS) – Nature has diverse values for different people, but it is poorly evaluated, and this is driving the global biodiversity crisis, top scientists say in a new report. The Assessment Report on the Diverse Values and Valuation of Nature found that the way nature is valued in political…

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By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Jul 11 2022 (IPS) – India and China, two Asian nuclear powers who are also longstanding rivals embroiled in the geo-politics of the Indian Ocean region, have remained two of the world’s most populous nations accounting for over a billion people each. But as the world’s population reaches the 8.0…

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By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Jun 30 2022 (IPS) – Liquefied gas does not occupy a prominent position in Mexico’s energy mix, but the government wants to change that scenario, to take advantage of the crisis unleashed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the need for new sources of the fuel due to the sanctions against…

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By Patricia Balvanera, Brigitte Baptiste, Mike Christie and Unai Pascual BONN, Germany, Jun 30 2022 (IPS) – Nature has many values. A forest can be a cool and quiet place to retreat to when you need relaxation on a hot summer day. It is a habitat for many species. Trees also sequester and store carbon, reducing…

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By Alison Kentish DOMINICA, Jul 1 2022 (IPS) – In the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, the changing climate often eclipses the loss of ecosystems and species in funding and awareness. For years, the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has been one of the world’s most visible forces for policy…

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By Orlando Milesi SANTIAGO, Jul 1 2022 (IPS) – A Chilean government plan seeks to ensure connectivity in remote areas, in a first step to address a deep digital divide among the country’s inhabitants that includes a lack of access to technology and digital education deficits, exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, during the social isolation…

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