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Lunch break in Kibera Slum School, Nairobi, Kenya. A study led by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found the need for adequate housing to be “particularly acute” in Africa, since the continent has the fastest growing population in the world, predicted to rise from 1.2 billion people in 2015 to 2.5 billion people by 2050. (Photo by Michał Huniewicz) Photo used under CC BY

Despite progress, millions in Africa still live in slums

Africa has undergone a dramatic transformation in living conditions over the past 15 years but almost half of the the urban population – 53 million people across the countries analyzed – were living in slum conditions.

Guardian

Urban middle class may offer lifeline to rural Africa

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Traffickers accused of crimes against Rohingya

Human trafficking gangs are guilty of crimes against humanity for their brutal treatment of vulnerable Rohingya refugees trying to flee to Thailand and Malaysia according to a harrowing new investigation.

Telegraph.co.uk

Delayed payment enslaves India’s slavery survivors

Three years after India said it would increase state compensation for slavery survivors, not one has received the full amount, new data show, as campaigners warn that thousands are being forced back into debt bondage.

Straits Times

Somali refugees at risk if Kenya shuts camp

A quarter of a million Somali refugees face violence back home if Kenya continues with plans to shut the vast Dadaab camp, rights groups have warned. Kenya has submitted plans to shut the camp complex.

Middle East Online

Burkina Faso forces, militants execute dozens

Burkina Faso security forces have summarily executed more than 115 civilians since mid-last year during operations against Islamist militants who themselves have killed over a third of that number.

Channel NewsAsia

China’s push for coal imperils climate goals

Beijing had pledged to scale back its coal industry, but a new report says the Chinese government has quietly restarted construction of coal-fired power plants. The report also found an increase in coal consumption.

Deutsche Welle

Climate expert: US is asleep at the wheel

CNN

HUMAN RIGHTS

Tea giant vows probe after labor abuse claims

Sri Lankan plantations that supply tea stamped slavery-free to top global companies are under investigation by ethical label groups after an expose found illegal wage deductions that have left workers ill, unable to afford healthcare.

Reuters

60 years of stalemate awakens youth in Tibet

A new generation of Tibetans born in exile are questioning the leadership’s direction in the struggle against Chinese rule six decades after Beijing crushed an uprising for independence.

Al Jazeera

China: Tibet rights critics ‘bewitched’ by Dalai Lama

Reuters

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Thai parties form coalition to stop military rule

Pro-democracy parties battling to block the military’s return to power after Thailand’s first election since a 2014 coup said they have secured enough seats to form a government.

CNN

EU backs copyright reforms in blow to big tech

Members of the EU have endorsed an overhaul of the bloc’s two-decade-old copyright rules. Reforms will force tech giants to pay publishers for use of their content, a move critics say threatens the free internet.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

NASA cancels all-women space walk over suits

NASA has cancelled its first all-female spacewalk due to the lack of availability of medium-sized spacesuits.

CNN

Female astronaut speaks out after NASA cancels all-female spacewalk

The Hill

World’s biggest T. rex discovered in Canada

A fossil site in Canada has yielded the heaviest Tyrannosaurus rex specimen ever found — an animal that weighed an estimated 19,500 pounds in life, far heftier than most elephants alive today.

National Geographic

Wood-based tech creates electricity from heat

A University of Maryland-led team of researchers has created a heat-to-electricity device that runs on ions. This could someday harness the body’s heat to provide energy.

Phys.org

GLOBAL HEALTH

WHO: Cholera, a concern in Mozambique

Cyclone-ravaged Mozambique faces a “second disaster” from cholera and other diseases, the World Health Organization has warned.

FOX News

Trump expands ban on foreign aid for abortion

he Trump administration is expanding a ban on U.S. aid to foreign groups that promote or provide abortions to include those who support others who do, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced.

NBCNews.com

County bans unvaccinated in public spaces

Rockland County, New York banned unvaccinated minors from public places in order to stem a growing measles outbreak.

CNN

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Achim Steiner and Shenggen Fan):

Rural areas are in crisis. Revitalization is the solution

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Column (Holly Burkhalter):

Widows are on the frontlines of property battles in Uganda

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Column (Kim Kelly):

Fast-Food industry workers continue to fight for their right to unionize

Teen Vogue

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GOOD NEWS

Laundry room revolutionizes Newark school

To help poor students who faced bullying for wearing dirty clothes to school, a Newark, New Jersey high school has created a laundry room with five commercial-grade washing machines and dryers.

CBS News

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Billionaire family to donate $11M over Nazi past

The Reimann family, which own Krispy Kreme and Dr. Pepper, will donate $11 million to charity after learning the extent of their family’s ties to the Nazi regime.

Deutsche Welle

ENVIRONMENT

Trees crucial to the future of cities, study says

According to a study, the right amount of tree cover can lower summer daytime temperatures by as much as 10 degrees Fahrenheit. And the effect is quite noticeable across neighborhoods, even down to the scale of a single city block.

Phys.org

Deforestation triggers calamities in Indonesia

Palm oil production in Indonesia has been held responsible for cutting down vast swathes of tropical forests and killing biodiversity. Now, deforestation may also be the reason why the region is witnessing flash floods.

Deutsche Welle

Flash floods cause devastation in Indonesia

Guardian

Fossil fuel costs more than solar, wind

A report from Energy Innovation reveals that three-quarters of US coal production is now more expensive than solar and wind energy in providing electricity to American households.

Mother Jones

Widespread losses of pollinating insects in UK

A widespread loss of pollinating insects like wild bees and hoverflies in recent decades has been revealed by the first national survey in Britain. Scientists say this “highlights a fundamental deterioration” in nature.

Guardian

ECONOMIC EQUITY

Moroccan teachers protest wages, contracts

Several thousand Moroccan teachers have staged a protest in the capital Rabat, in the latest outbreak of anger at low-wage, temporary teaching contracts that do not cover health care or provide for pensions.

US News & World Report

US lacks enough workers to fill open jobs

For nearly a year now, the number of open jobs in the U.S. each month has been higher than the number of people looking for work — the first time that’s happened since the U.S. began tracking job turnover two decades ago.

Vox.com

McDonald‘s won’t lobby against minimum wage hikes

CNBC

Study says, gender pay gap exists, but falling

Although the pay disparity between men and women still exists in the U.S. according to a new study, it’s slowly beginning to shrink.

Fox Business

Photo of the Day

Happy children in a slum in Manila, Philippines. According to a recent survey of Gallup International Association, Philippines is the third happiest country in the world in 2017. The Survey found 86 percent of Filipinos claiming they were happy against only two percent saying otherwise. (Photo by John Christian Fjellestad) Photo used under CC BY

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