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It’s supposed to be cold in Europe in February. Just not this cold.An historically frigid cold snap has descended upon the continent,claiming the lives of over 300 and dumping snow across Europe and even into some parts of Northern Africa. The Sahara, the world’s largest desert has seen snow in...
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With the United Nations Rio+20 Conference looming, the topic of energy is becoming increasingly important. The United Nations and governments around the world are beginning to call for a weaning off dirty fuel sources like coal, oil, and gas, and embrace clean renewables. One renewable that holds...
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Around this time last year, news coming out of Egypt shocked the world. While demonstrations had toppled the government of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in neighboring Tunisia, and unrest had been brewing on the streets of Cairo, the regime of strongman Hosni Mubarak, who had held the office of...
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Unparalleled scenic beauty, strong and stable governance, a durable economy; Zambia today is a far cry from the coups and economic busts that characterized the country in the last quarter of the twentieth century. With strong economic indicators, and a sturdy political system, Zambia looks poised...
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When money is tight, it tends to get tighter. This is the catch-22 that much of the world’s poor find themselves in; consumed by personal debt and poor credit, they can’t take on new loans, and find themselves spiraling deeper into the throes of poverty.
Hopefully, this bleak scenario is...
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NEW YORK - Despite a slowdown in the global economic recovery and an increasingly difficult global environment, Sub-Saharan African countries are continuing to grow. Africa is certainly getting harder to write off."From an investment standpoint, it's a market that's hard to ignore, because it's a...
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NEW YORK--Somalia has by all accounts suffered through the last twenty years, with the population of just over 9 million dodging conflicts, warlords and natural disasters while attempting survival in one of the poorest countries in the world. Being without a centralized government since 1991 when...
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NEW YORK -The Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York was the setting for theSouth-South Awards, and it reflected the significance and grandeur of the event. This award ceremony is remarkable among the many other award ceremonies that take place each year. It features the nations of the South and their...
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HELSINKI, FINLAND- Formal debate about the future of Africa subsided in Helsinki on Tuesday, as participants in the “Sharing Know-how for a Sustainable Future” program, your correspondent included, traveled by bus around southern Finland, learning as much as we could about the country graciously...
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HELSINKI, FINLAND - After hours of jetlag, sleep apnea, and a variety of other episodes of somnambulist discomfort , I am prepared to face you, the South-South News audience, in the exciting arena of first-person journalism. That's right, fair reader; I have been in Helsinki for the past few days,...