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Men are stopped at a UN checkpoint in Kidal, Mali. (Photo by MINUSMA/Blagoje Grujic) Photo used under CC BY

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10M kids in Sahel region need aid due to fighting

Ten million children in the Sahel region of Africa are in dire need of humanitarian aid as a result of spiraling conflict, the UN says. Nearly four million more children are at risk as hostilities between national security forces and armed groups spill across borders.

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Al Jazeera

Haiti’s PM turns to military to help fight gangs

Haiti’s prime minister signaled that he wants to mobilize the military to help the police fight the country’s increasingly powerful gangs.

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Associated Press

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Haiti crisis putting pressure on Canada to act

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Extreme weather creating supply chain disruptions

With global catastrophes on the rise, the concurrence of the pandemic and climate disasters that triggered supply chain problems may be less a generational event and more of a preview of the multilayered emergencies that could occur increasingly often.

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Devex

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Malawians fear storm Freddy could make deadliest cholera outbreak worse

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Reuters

Education crisis in Lebanon spells ‘disaster’

A third of Lebanon‘s children are not attending school, the UN says. The country’s economic crisis is rippling through the education system, which is threatening to collapse. The hardest hit in the disruptions are Syrian refugees.

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Israeli forces kill terrorist reportedly from Lebanon

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Kids suffer most from Amazon’s mining gangs

About 570 Yanomami children in the Brazilian Amazon have died preventable deaths since 2018 thanks to a toxic cocktail of government neglect, local corruption and an onslaught from illegal mining gangs, activists say.

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Guardian

HUMAN RIGHTS

2.4K Afghan asylum seekers detained by UAE

The United Arab Emirates is arbitrarily detaining at least 2,400 Afghan asylum seekers, HRW says. Those being held at a the Abu Dhabi facility were evacuated from Kabul following the Taliban takeover in August 2021.

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BBC

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My escape from Afghanistan: Tamana’s story

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Mexico to probe alleged human rights abuses

Mexico will launch a federal commission to investigate allegations of human rights abuses by the country’s military, including the use of powerful spyware technology, the head of the government party has said.

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Guardian

Senegal police clash with opposition supporters

Police and demonstrators clashed in Senegal’s capital Dakar before a court case involving opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, who is widely supported by many of the West African country’s youth.

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Al Jazeera

El Salvador extends anti-gang crackdown

Measures enjoy widespread support, but rights groups say they have led to arbitrary arrests and prison overcrowding.

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Al Jazeera

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El Salvador: 2,000 more to prison, vows will ‘never return’

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Yahoo! News

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Israelis press ahead with government protests

Israeli protesters pressed ahead with demonstrations against a contentious government plan to overhaul the judiciary, pushing back against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after he rejected a compromise.

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NBCNews.com

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Israel‘s president warns of ’civil war’ amid disputes over controversial judicial reforms

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Few migrants reunited through US program

Few, if any, Guatemalan children have made it to the U.S. under an expanded program to reunite children with their parents in the U.S., according to a report published by the nonprofit organization Refugees International.

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NBCNews.com

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Sharp drop in illegal border crossings continued in February, U.S. says

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NBCNews.com

Hungary students march for education reform

Thousands of students and other opponents of Hungary’s government marched in the capital Budapest on Wednesday to demand educational reforms and a change in the Central European country’s political culture.

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Associated Press

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

China bars 1.1K scientists from working in UK

More than 1,000 scientists and postgraduate students were barred from working in the UK last year on national security grounds, amid a major government crackdown on research collaborations with China.

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Guardian

Can young robotics fans unite a troubled Libya?

Young people work together across social, economic and racial divides to embrace technology and advance their country.

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Al Jazeera

GLOBAL HEALTH

Cocaine production reaches record levels

The UN Office on Drugs and Crime said coca cultivation rose by 35% between 2020 and 2021 to record levels. Findings suggest new hubs for trafficking have emerged in West and Central Africa.

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BBC

Viral outbreak in W. Bengal leaves 19 dead

Nineteen children have died of acute respiratory infections in West Bengal this year, and thousands more are in hospital as India grapples with an adenovirus outbreak.

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Guardian

Medics launch cholera vaccination drive in Syria

Medics in northern Syria have launched a campaign to vaccinate about 90,000 people against cholera in an effort to stop an outbreak that began in 2022.

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Why Indonesia fails to address the West Papua conflict

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Al Jazeera

The Guardian view on Iran and Saudi Arabia: a cautious start

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Guardian

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Countries must send the climate crisis to the world’s top court

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Pakistan’s Karachi jail teaches art to inmates

A fine arts center at a jail in Karachi is helping inmates to learn various artistic skills, including painting, jewelry making and embroidery. Some prisoners are even earning money by selling their works.

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Turtles find friends off coast of Benin

Off the coast of Benin, Bienvenue Djossou has created a safe zone for sea turtle hatchlings in his pub. He is part of a group called eco-guards. They protect turtle eggs and fight to ensure that they don’t become extinct.

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Baghdad’s youth reclaim their city

Post-Saddam violence and chaos forced Iraqis to hunker down in their neighborhoods but the capital is opening up again.

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NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

UN task force reform needed to save lives

A group of prominent relief organizations has called for reform of a high-level United Nations task force on famine prevention, arguing it cannot act quickly enough to prevent mass starvation in places such as Somalia.

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Devex

Norway vows to fight against global hunger

Food insecurity has shot to the top of Norway’s development agenda. Norwegian Minister Anne Tvinnereim is concerned the planet might not be able to produce enough food to sustain the human population.

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Devex

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Nigeria extends timeline to swap old currency

Nigeria has extended the timeline to swap out its old currency for redesigned notes after the change triggered a cash shortage, forcing businesses to close and leaving millions unable to withdraw their money.

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U.S. News & World Report

Lebanon schools crushed by economic crisis

Lebanon’s schools are crumbling under the weight of the country’s economic collapse as the political leadership balks at taking any measures to resolve it.

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Associated Press

ENVIRONMENT

UN announces 7 new youth climate advisors

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres named seven young climate leaders to be his Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change, underlining the role of youth advocates in climate action.

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Associated Press

Deforestation ‘fast outstripping’ regrowth

Recovering tropical forests offset just a quarter of carbon emissions generated each year by logging, wildfire and land clearing, new research has found.

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BBC

Farmed animals suffer amid high meat demand

Despite demands for improved farmed animal welfare, livestock is reared in confinement and isolation as intensive factory production also compounds pollution.

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Africa economy hit by extreme weather events

African countries are spending between 2% and 9% of their budgets to respond to extreme weather events, according to a report released by the United Nations.

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U.S. News & World Report

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A portrait of a member of the Indigenous community in Copán Ruinas Archaeological Site, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Honduras. (Photo by UN Photo/Evan Schneider) Photo used under CC BY

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