Tackling the basic needs of people living with HIV/Aids in Papua New Guinea is, as we learn in our development section this week, far from simple. The facilities to keep themselves clean and to access safe drinking are not givens, and the non-government organisation that the article covers, ATprojects, developed a simple kit to help with these issues: 6,500 have been distributed. We also learn about a development project in Rajasthan, where Israel, with a very similar climate, has been the inspiration for a project to develop olive cultivation.
But it's the very full news agenda that dominates our pages. After a wave of terrible violence swept across the Ivory Coast, former President Laurent Gbagbo was finally deposed, with Alassane Ouattara taking over the very difficult task of restoring order in a country where 46% of the vote in the presidential election four months ago went to the fallen strong man.
And there's continuing unrest in Syria, where the toll of deaths in less than a month has now topped 200, and Yemen, where President Ali Abdullah Saleh appears to have been abandoned by most of his international allies. In Libya, meanwhile, there's an apparent military stalemate, as both sides start to contemplate how they are going to keep funding their positions.
It's economics that's also causing headaches for many other governments, from the eurozone wondering "what next?" after the agreement to bail out the Portuguese economy, to Washington, where a last-hour deal on the budget only set the scene for a battle next month over the federal debt ceiling, an issue which if not resolved could see the US government begin defaulting on its debt.
All of these big news items meant the raising of the rating of the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster to a level seven, the same as Chernobyl, was pushed deep into the paper. The Japanese authorities say this is on the basis of more complete further information, rather than continuing events, and there is some good news in that plant officials say they have stopped pumping radioactive water into the sea.
In our monthly Learning English supplement we consider the position of English teachers in the region of Japan affected by the tsunami and nuclear crisis. The long-term effects are still hard to judge - and convincing new teachers to come to Japan may be difficult.
Quote of the week: "Earth is the mother of all. It establishes a new relationship between man and nature, the harmony of which must be preserved as a guarantee of its regeneration." Bolivian Vice-President Álvaro García Linera, on planned laws granting nature equal rights to humans
Fact of the week: The poor in Russia now have barely half the spending power they had in the Soviet era, while the richest 20% of society has doubled its share of the nation's wealth, according to a study by Moscow's Higher School of Economics.
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