| |  | |  Mbeki to arbitrate in Zimbabwe as Mugabe threatens unilateral cabinet The powersharing arrangement that brought tentative political stability to Zimbabwe was threatened as President Robert Mugabe declared that his political party would appoint the heads of all the cabinet ministries, including military and police. Morgan Tsvangirai, whose Movement for Democratic Change party won the most recent election, announced that he would withdraw from the government rather than compromise on the power-sharing deal with Mugabe. Former South African President Thabo Mbeki, who brokered the dual government, will return to Zimbabwe to try to arbitrate a solution, but his power is diminished. The new African National Congress leadership is reportedly predisposed against Mugabe and his Zanu-PF party. Financial Times (10/12) , The Guardian (London) (10/13) , BBC (10/13)
|  |  | The credit crisis can be used to make progress in a new direction, an opportunity for global green economic growth. The credit crunch I believe is an opportunity to rebuild the financial system that would underpin sustainable growth ... Governments now have an opportunity to create and enforce policy which stimulates private competition to fund clean industry. UN Climate Change Secretariat chief Yvo de Boer. Read the full story. |
|  | UN DISPATCH: Facing a "perfect storm" of drought and rising food prices, the number of people in Ethiopia in need of emergency assistance has jumped from 4.6 million to 6.4 million in less than four months. This would be bad enough, but there are 7.2 million additional Ethiopians who receive only some small support from their government. UN Dispatch | |
- Piracy, attacks on aid workers stymie UN missions in Somalia, Darfur
Increased dangers to the mission have forced UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to delay the full deployment of 22,000 of the authorized 26,000 troops to Darfur this year. Ban has said the UN will aim to send 17,000 by January and reach 22,000 in the spring. Ban also said a security detail to escort the UN World Food Programme aid deliveries to Somalia had not been found to replace the Canadian frigate that performed this service most recently. Google/The Associated Press (10/9)  - U.S. and allies consider Iran sanctions alternative to UN process
The U.S. and several allies are in talks about implementing a parallel sanctions program after a largely symbolic UN resolution passed this month revealed that substantive sanctions are unlikely to pass the UN Security Council. These U.S. and European sanctions would target Iran's energy sector, including engineering products for Iranian refineries as well as refined oil. Financial Times (10/12) - China acts to empower peasantry
Chinese authorities have moved forward with plans to allow the country's peasantry to buy and sell land-use rights for the first time, a major shift in China's ongoing economic reform that authorities hope will improve the lot of the country's 800 million peasants and lend more staying power to the goal of self-sufficient food production. The New York Times (10/11) - Pregnancy brings huge risk of death to Sierra Leone women
In Sierra Leone, where even the largest city lacks electricity and running water, the risks associated with pregnancy are grave -- and further complicated by dependency on a corps of poorly trained midwives and lack of access to the few trained doctors operating in the nation. Despite the introduction of 54 new clinics throughout the country, 1 in 8 women dies as a result of complications related to pregnancy. The Washington Post (10/12) Top five news stories selected by UN Wire readers in the past week. - Results based on number of times each story was clicked by readers.
- De Boer: Use crisis to fuel climate change battle
The current global credit crisis can be used to spur advances in the "green growth" industries, Yvo de Boer, the United Nations chief climate official, said Friday. "The credit crunch I believe is an opportunity to rebuild the financial system that would underpin sustainable growth ... Governments now have an opportunity to create and enforce policy which stimulates private competition to fund clean industry," de Boer said. Environmental News Network/Reuters (10/11) - Tigris River no longer a good source of fish
Choked by overfishing, pollution, and neighboring nations Iran and Syria who share its basin, the Tigris River brings barely any fishing at all to Baghdad. In the Haifa Street neighborhood, fishing along the Tigris was once a source of industry. The Washington Post (10/13)  |  | |  | | | | | | | | Director of Security | American Refugee Committee International | Minneapolis, MN, USA | | Director, Gender, Women and Health | World Health Organization (WHO) | Geneva, Switzerland | | Program Officer (Reforming Family Law Program) -- Kuwait | Freedom House | Kuwait | | Project Director (Reforming Family Law Program) -- Kuwait | Freedom House | Kuwait | | General Manager | CHF International | Afghanistan | | Chief of Party, Iraq Community Action Program III | International Relief and Development (IRD) | Iraq | | Assistant Country Director | CARE USA | Kabul, Afghanistan | | Administrative Assistant | Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation | Washington, DC | | IDIQ Program Manager, USA | International Relief and Development (IRD) | Arlington, VA | | IDIQ Program Manager | International Relief and Development (IRD) | Iraq | | Project Director, Cultural Heritage Project | International Relief and Development (IRD) | Arlington, VA | | Project Coordinator, Cultural Heritage Project | International Relief and Development (IRD) | Erbil, Iraq | | Senior Program Officer, Infrastructure | International Relief and Development (IRD) | Arlington, VA | | Technical/Proposal Writer, Democracy &Governance | International Relief and Development (IRD) | Arlington, VA | | Director of Development | Freedom House | Washington, DC | | | |  | |  | |
 | - Coordinated financial response gains momentum
Support for coordinated efforts to address the global financial crisis have gained steam with the IMF throwing its support behind a plan to ease worldwide credit, jump-start the secondary mortgage market and safeguard depositors' funds. Also, European Union leaders agreed Sunday to inject billions of euros into European banks. The New York Times (10/13) , The Toronto Star (10/12) - Interview: Crisis proves greed must be sidelined
A singular emphasis on profit margins as a way of doing business allowed greed to drag the world's financial system into disarray, and social consciousness must play a role in the solutions, Nobel laureate and Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus tells Der Spiegel in this interview. Der Spiegel (English online version) (10/10) |
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