COBUE, Mozambique, Oct 31 (IPS) - When Dorothy Kakongwe smiles, her creases tell stories no history book can recount. Now, as an elderly and humble nurse, she can reflect on the changes in the landscape and people around her.

BONDOUKOU, Côte d'Ivoire, Oct 31 (IPS) - Every year, Robert Assalé, a farmer at Tangamourou in the Bondoukou region in east-central Côte d'Ivore, produces an impressive amount of yams. He harvested 30 tonnes in 2007, 42 tonnes in 2008 and

MANAMA, Oct 31 (IPS) - Transsexuals in the Gulf call Bahraini lawyer Fawziya Janahi "guardian angel". She is the Arab world's only female lawyer who takes up cases on behalf of clients who want to change their sex.

NEW DELHI, Oct 31 (IPS) - An ascendant China that ignores human rights in Tibet and Xinjiang, poses a danger to world peace, say Nobel laureates Mairead Corrigan Maguire and Jody Williams.

BANGKOK, Oct 31 (IPS) - With the annual monsoon rains ending, there is a growing fear among the Karen ethnic minority living along military-ruled Burma's eastern border of a dry season offensive. The most vulnerable are villagers residing in the

WASHINGTON, Oct 30 (IPS) - Global health and U.S. AIDS activists are hailing President Barack Obama's announcement Friday that the government will end a 22-year-old ban on the entry into the United States of HIV-positive visitors.

BUENOS AIRES, Oct 30 (IPS) - Investing in the sustainable management of ecosystems and curbing environmental degradation greatly improves the capacity of nations to adapt to climate change, according to a study carried out in 16 countries by two environmental

WASHINGTON, Oct 30 (IPS) - Following months of dithering on the part of the U.S., a delegation from the U.S. State Department brokered a deal Thursday between the ousted and interim governments of Honduras.

WASHINGTON, Oct 30 (IPS) - International human rights groups have raised concern over a proposed non-binding resolution in the U.S. House Representatives which would call on the White House to oppose any future endorsement or consideration of Judge Richard Goldstone's

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 30 (IPS) - The United Nations, which is pursuing a proposal for "a world without nuclear weapons", will soon turn its attention to another new goal in the field of disarmament: creating a legally-binding treaty on conventional

RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 30 (IPS) - Janaína*, who lives in Jacarezinho, one of the most violent "favelas" or shantytowns in this Brazilian city, describes the control that the "movement" - the local drug mafia - exercises over the neighbourhood

BOSTON, Oct 30 (IPS) - Big banks will not be forced to downsize and the public will be the last to know when they fail, a controversial bill unveiled by U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Congressman Barney Frank proposes.

ATLANTA, Georgia, Oct 30 (IPS) - Two recent police raids of gay bars in Atlanta, Georgia and Fort Worth, Texas have sparked mass protests in the two cities and led activists to question whether equality for persons of all sexual

GUATEMALA CITY, Oct 30 (IPS) - A new process aimed at making the selection of judges more transparent in Guatemala failed to block the appointment of several candidates who were questioned by civil society and a U.N.-sponsored commission set up

BEIJING, Oct 30 (IPS) - Fifteen years after dynamite blasts first shattered the peace of China's breathtaking Three Gorges, the Three Gorges Dam—the pride of China's engineering progress—is nearing completion. But the cannonade of criticism bombarding the world's largest and

KYIV, October 30 /UKRINFORM/. The Ukrainian and Russian foreign ministers, Petro Poroshenko and Sergey Lavrov, have discussed in their phone call a broad range of issues of bilateral cooperation. The parties acknowledged that Ukraine-Russia relations have recently gained a new

KYIV, October 30 /UKRINFORM/. Ukraine's Healthcare Ministry has released the latest data on flu-patients and death toll in the country as of Friday, October 30. For today, the number of acute respiratory disease-hit patients is 81,487 people, including 33,500 children.

KYIV, October 30 /UKRINFORM/. The Ukrainian government will apply best efforts to protect Ukraine from the influenza, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said this at a meeting in Ternopil on Friday, UKRINFORM correspondent reports. According to Tymoshenko, the Cabinet outlined

KYIV, October 30 /UKRINFORM/. The Ukrainian Ministry of Emergencies and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding in support of bilateral cooperation on natural disaster risk reduction and early recovery. The program envisages financing at

KYIV, October 30 /UKRINFORM/. The European Commission has proposed to the Council to provide macro-financial assistance to Ukraine, in the form of a loan of up to EUR 500 million, reads the Commission's press release, UKRINFORM's own correspondent in Belgium