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According to the Brookings Institution, Nigeria now has the world’s greatest number of extreme poor. Locals believe that poor governance, the insecurity in the northeast, and the threat from Boko Haram are the main reasons for the extreme poverty. (Photo by CEE-HOPE NIGERIA) Photo used under CC BY

How Nigeria’s poorest struggle to survive

Families living on $2 a day or less tell of the hardships of life in the oil-rich nation, which now has the greatest concentration of extreme poverty in the world.

Guardian

Humanitarian situation worsens in Ethiopia

Over 800,000 internally displaced persons are living with inadequate shelter and sanitation in Ethiopia, resulting in a worsening humanitarian situation exacerbated by cold, wet weather.

allAfrica.com

Nigeria floods worsen food shortages

Al Jazeera

Paraguay’s women fight for reproductive rights

Issues like abortion, child sexual abuse and a lack of sex ed are impossible to separate from each other in Paraguay, a country with a history of dictatorship and oppression.

PRI

Queensland moves to decriminalise abortion within months

Guardian

Income inequality is getting worse in the US

The gap in income between the 10 percent who make the most and those who make the least in the U.S. has continued to widen since 1970, according to a new study.

AXIOS

Tanzania’s Magufuli calls prisoners free labor

The president of Tanzania has called for prisoners to be made to work long hours, and to be punished if they are lazy. He said inmates should grow their own food in prison fields.

Star FM Online

Hundreds more migrants abandoned in desert

A UN migration official has accused Algeria of leaving hundreds of African migrants stranded in the desert. A report said migrants from 16 African countries are among those ditched in the Sahara with little water.

Deutsche Welle

HUMAN RIGHTS

Child dies as Nicaraguan death toll rises to 280

At least 10 people, including a young girl, were killed in Nicaragua after pro-government forces launched an operation in the country’s south. The Nicaraguan Association for Human Rights said that six civilians and four riot police officers died on Sunday in the city of Masaya.

Al Jazeera

Students die hiding in church to pray

NPR

Civilian deaths hit record high in Afghanistan

The number of civilians killed in Afghanistan hit a record high in the first half of the year, despite last month’s ceasefire, according to the United Nations.

Al Jazeera

Bill shields military from prosecution in Egypt

Egypt’s parliament has passed a bill that could make senior military officers immune from future prosecution tied to the violence which followed the 2013 overthrow of elected President Mohamed Morsi.

Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Haiti’s prime minister resigns after riots

Jack Guy Lafontant resigned after days of riots sparked by a plan to raise prices on fuel. Haitian President Jovenel Moïse said on Twitter that he had accepted Lafontant’s resignation as well as members of his cabinet. Moïse said he would work to choose a new prime minister.

NPR

Polls show xenophobic politicians are popular

En route to winning a fourth term this year, Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned that migration would harm Hungary‘s largely homogeneous nation, proclaiming “countries that don’t stop immigration will be lost.”

USA TODAY

Cuba now recognizes private property

Cuba will officially recognize private property for the first time in decades under a new constitution featuring far-reaching changes. The state’s new constitution will reaffirm that central planning and state enterprise are key to the economy. It is expected to be approved by a vote at the national assembly next week.

BBC

Obama urges Kenyan brass to ease tensions

Former U.S. President Barack Obama is visiting Kenya for the first time since leaving office. Obama is in Kenya to help launch the sports and training center founded by his half-sister, Auma Obama, through her foundation Sauti Kuu.

CBS News

‘Diversity must been seen as strength’

YouTube

Nigerian leaders meet on development

Influential Niger Delta indigenes gathered Lagos in response to a call by the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator to rub minds on how to deepen peace in the hitherto volatile Niger Delta and pave way for socio-economic development.

(Guardian)

Sunday Magazine

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

South Africa launches powerful new telescope

South Africa has unveiled a new super radio telescope that will study galaxy formation, a first phase of what will be the world’s largest telescope in a project to try to unravel the secrets of the universe.

Al Jazeera

Are we likely alone in the Milky Way galaxy?

University of Oxford researchers are raising doubt about the supposition that the cosmos is thick with extraterrestrials. They were addressing the Fermi Paradox — the disconnect between our expectation of many worlds swarming with aliens and the fact that they remain undiscovered.

NBCNews.com

GLOBAL HEALTH

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International Food Security Assessment

US Department of Agriculture

Southern Syrians lack access to medical care

The WHO is calling for access to more than 210,000 people in need of medical assistance in parts of rebel-held northwest Daraa and Quneitra, the scene of recent intense fighting between Russian-backed Syrian Government forces and opposition armed groups.

VOA News

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Hiroto Mitsugi):

Forests and trees: Pathways to sustainable development

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Column (Susan Barnett):

Family planning is crucial for those in the developing world

The Hill

Column (Rebecca Onion):

Critics of Starbucks’ straw ban are missing the point

Slate

Column (Vivek Kaul):

India’s minimum support price for crops useless without procurement

Asia Times Online

Column (Ishaan Tharoor):

The World Cup is a victory for the immigrant dream

The Age

Column (Demola Olarewaju):

How a Nigerian icon came to be celebrated by those he sang against

Al Jazeera

Column (Victor Asemota):

‘Ghana is the future of Africa’: Why Google built an AI lab in Accra

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Elon Musk funds water filters for Flint crisis

Tesla CEO and tech mogul Elon Musk is paying to have new water filters installed in any Flint, Michigan homes that are below federal water safety guidelines.

ABC News

Russian youth see lives changed by World Cup

Since the fall of communism young Russians have grown up viewing Moscow as a cosmopolitan capital. But nothing prepared them for the vibrant, colourful and multicultural experience of hosting the World Cup.

BBC

Saudi aviation academy to train women pilots

A flight school in Saudi Arabia is opening its doors for women, following the end of a decades-long driving ban in the deeply conservative Muslim country where many social restrictions are easing.

Reuters

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

US gives $6M in aid for Venezuelan migrants

The United States is pledging an additional $6 million in aid to help Colombia respond to the massive influx of Venezuelans fleeing their country’s economic and humanitarian crisis.

ABC News

Operation Smile holds annual conference

The students of Operation Smile raise awareness, funds and serve as advocates for children who lack access to surgery. The charity has provided many free surgeries for children and young adults in developing countries who are born with facial deformities.

Markets Insider

Craigslist founder gives $20M to J school

The man best known for founding the digital classified listing service Craigslist recently gave a New York City journalism school $20 million. His gift prompted rebranding at what will now be called the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at City University of New York.

The Conversation

ENVIRONMENT

Humanity struggles to stay cool

More than a billion people in Asia, Africa and Latin America are at risk from a lack of air conditioning and refrigeration to keep them cool and to preserve food and medicines as global warming brings more high temperatures, a study shows.

Reuters

Madagascar criminalizes deforestation

To protect the ecosystem and its animals, Madagascar made it illegal to cut down rainforest land for agriculture, and promised to give farmers a new way to earn a living. However, farmers are suffering instead.

NPR

Soy giant to stop ruination of native vegetation

One of the world’s largest soy traders became the first company to announce a policy to eliminate the destruction of native ecosystems and endangered wildlife from its supply chain. The policy shows a commitment to tackling high levels of deforestation across Brazil.

Mongabay

ECONOMY

IMF team in Zambia to discuss its debt levels

An International Monetary Fund team is expected in Zambia next week as part of consultations on the country’s debt levels, said Treasury secretary general Fredson Yamba.

Reuters

Trucks going Into Gaza are at a low point

Only 193 trucks entered Gaza from Israel, down from 508 the week before. It remains unclear how much this matters given the dire economic situation and the lack of residents’ purchasing power.

Haaretz

Photo of the Day

Children playing soccer next to an IDP camp in Mogadishu, Somalia. Illegal under al Shabab, soccer made a huge comeback in Somalia, with Mogadishu’s streets literally filling up with children each afternoon as they came out to play the game. File photo from 2013. (Photo by AU UN IST PHOTO / TOBIN JONES) Photo used under CC BY

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