Featured, Headlines, IBSA-featured, Interviews, Opinion
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
By Mario Osava BRASILIA, 28 Jun (IPS) Celso Amorim, one of the fathers of the IBSA Forum (India, Brazil, and South Africa) says in this interview that for this alliance of three major emerging powers, “Helping the poorest countries is clearly one of its callings.This gives it both its uniqueness and its international legitimacy.”
Featured, Headlines, IBSA, IBSA-featured, Interviews, Opinion, South-South, Trade and Development
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
Rousbeh Legatis interviews JOSEPHINE OJIAMBO, Ambassador of Kenya UNITED NATIONS, May 4 (IPS) – “In South-South cooperation we are all partners,” Josephine Ojiambo, ambassador of Kenya to the U.N. and president of the U.N. General Assembly High-Level Committee on South-South Cooperation, told IPS. “SSC specifically shies away from the donor-client relationship.”
Headlines, IBSA, Interviews
Saturday, March 5th, 2011
Rosebell Kagumire interviews EJ HOGENDOORN, International Crisis Group KAMPALA, Mar 5 (IPS) – The four-year old African Union Mission in Somalia is fighting a desperate defensive action in support of a transitional government that is “corrupt and inept”, according to the International Crisis Group
English, Featured, Headlines, Interviews, South Africa
Sunday, February 6th, 2011
By Thandi Winston and Souleymane Faye* DAKAR, Feb 6, 2011 (IPS) – Tens of thousands of people marched through the streets of Dakar on Sunday to mark the start of the annual World Social Forum. Activists carried colorful banners denouncing land grabs, restrictive immigration laws, agricultural subsidies in Europe and the U.S. and many other [...]
English, Headlines, IBSA, Interviews, South Africa
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
By Omer Redi * ADDIS ABABA, Feb 2, 2011 (IPS) – A High Level Panel has been set up by the African Union to send a team of experts to Côte d’Ivoire and come up with a solution to the political impasse that would be binding on both incumbent Laurent Gbagbo and his rival for [...]
Development, Headlines, Interviews, South-South
Tuesday, January 4th, 2011
Mario Queiroz interviews MANUEL CORREIA, president of the Portuguese Institute for Development Support LISBON, Jan 4, 2011 (IPS) – Despite the global economic crisis that has hit Europe especially hard, Portugal’s official development aid to its former colonies will not decline this year, although “unfortunately no increase is expected either.”
IBSA-featured, Interviews, Opinion
Thursday, April 8th, 2010
Thalif Deen interviews Ambassador Hardeep Singh Puri of India UNITED NATIONS, Apr 8 (IPS) – When the political leaders of three of the world’s major democracies in the global South – India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA) – gather at a high-powered summit meeting in Brasilia next week, one of the key items on the [...]
