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A young girl from the town of Kabula, Nigeria, listens to graduates of the Girls Leadership Program (GLP) discuss the dangers of child marriage. (Photo by Nsoedo O. Ndubuisi for IWHC.) Photo used under CC BY

Girls freed by Boko Haram can’t return to normal life

Five months ago, the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram kidnapped more than 100 schoolgirls from their school in Dapchi, Nigeria. Four weeks later, the terrorists let the girls go. But for many of them, a self-determined and normal life seems out of reach.

Deutsche Welle

Boko Haram: Who are the Nigerian jihadist insurgents and how are they funded?

The Independent

Libya migrant centers near breaking point

The number of migrants in Libya’s overcrowded detention centres has almost doubled over the past three months, according to the UN’s migration agency.

Guardian

Migrant crisis: Italy and NGO in row over migrant deaths

BBC

Migrants held by US report poor conditions

Migrants detained at the U.S.-Mexico border describe being held in Customs and Border Protection facilities that are unsanitary and overcrowded, receiving inedible food and being forced to drink foul-smelling water.

NPR

Cold, hunger and sleeplessness. Immigrant children describe dire US detention conditions

TIME

Hungary plans to quit UN migration agreement

Hungary will quit a U.N. migration pact before its final approval, it said, calling the agreement a “threat to the world.”

Reuters

India’s top court demands law to stop lynching

India’s highest court has asked the government to enact a new law to deal with an increase in mob violence and lynchings that have reportedly killed more than two dozen of people in the country this year.

Al Jazeera

Rohingya want to return as Myanmar citizens

Myanmar’s Rohingya refugees have told a UN envoy who visited their camp in Bangladesh this week that they will return home if it is safe and if they are granted citizenship rights.

Daily Star

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Refugees fleeing CAR violence struggle in Cameroon

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

Deportation laws questioned amid suicide

Germany’s interior minister joked about deporting 69 refugees, and news emerged that one of those Afghan deportees committed suicide. The man’s treatment raises questions about Germany’s deportation policies.

Spiegel International

DRC president promotes human rights abusers

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s president and commander in chief, Joseph Kabila, has promoted two generals long linked to serious human rights abuses. These promotions heighten concerns of more abuse.

U.S. News & World Report

Nigeria still struggles with farmers and herders

Despite President Buhari’s pledge after June’s violence to bring conflict to peace, leaders are growing impatient. Earlier this month, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria warned Buhari that he would lose the trust of the people if he fails to keep them safe.

Washington Free Beacon

UN warns Nigeria over herdsmen killings

Vonda News

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

US, Russia fall behind on global goals

In 2015, all 193 member states of the United Nations adopted 17 global goals to end poverty, protect the planet, reduce inequality, and improve the well-being of all people. Three years later, no country is yet on track to achieve all the Sustainable Development Goals by the target date of 2030.

Quartz

Russia urges UN to ease N. Korea sanctions

Russia’s envoy to North Korea said it would be logical to raise the question of easing sanctions on North Korea with the United Nations Security Council, as the U.S. pushes for a halt to refined petroleum exports to Pyongyang.

U.S. News & World Report

Diaspora influenced 2017’s elections in Africa

A new report has shed light on the role of Twitter during recent elections across Africa and how key voices from the diaspora helped shape the debate online.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Researchers sign pledge against killer AI

Artificial intelligence specialists declare that they will not participate in development or manufacture of robots that attack people without oversight. Demis Hassabis and Elon Musk are among those pledging to deter military firms and nations from building lethal autonomous weapons, also known as LAWS.

Guardian

The key to saving bees rests in its seminal fluid

In hopes of preserving their genetic diversity, entomologists are collecting and freezing semen. Threats to extinction of bees leads scientists to extract the ever important fluid.

Smithsonian Magazine

Robots learning to pollinate flowers

Digital Trends

GLOBAL HEALTH

Health in Mosul broken year after IS defeat

The government retook Mosul forces a year ago but 380,000 people were displaced from the northern city. The fighting caused 8 million tons of debris, the Norwegian Refugee Council said in a statement. The council is one of many international organizations and governments helping with relief and rehabilitation.

Reuters

Uganda obtains HIV meds to address shortage

Uganda has procured Septrin, a critical drug used to fight opportunistic infections among people living with HIV, in a bid to address a six-month shortage in the country.

Xinhua

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GOOD NEWS

Farmers to ‘feed’ a million bumblebees

According to the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, the UK’s pollinators are declining at an alarming rate. Concerned about Britain’s pollinators, two pig farmers from Suffolk have pledged to provide food for a million bumblebees this summer.

Positive News

Congo Ebola outbreak expected to end soon

WHO says it expects the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo to be over on July 24. It only takes one case of Ebola to set off a fast-moving epidemic so, it is important to quickly mobilize to combat the disease.

VOA News

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Funding grows to protect environmentalists

Violent attacks on indigenous activists, have been escalating as 200 were killed in 2016, but so have legal threats, harassment and intimidation, and restrictive policies as part of a global crackdown on civil society. The Environmental Defenders Fund has increased funding to help support defenders.

Inside Philanthropy

Tech nonprofits step up in place of government

The Trump administration’s massive cuts to social services have left lots of people in need, and that has created fresh work for tech nonprofits that are hoping to address it.

The Verge

ENVIRONMENT

Kenya to investigate rhino deaths

Kenya has launched an investigation into the deaths of nine black rhinos while the state wildlife service was transporting them from one national park to another.

Reuters

KWS locked out of team probing death of nine rhinos

YouTube

Ecuador‘s colonial past ’written in soil’

Researchers studying soil from the Quijos valley found that they revealed a story of the area’s history after Spanish settlers arrived in the 1500s. The subsequent decimation of the region’s indigenous population is told by surprising historians — plants.

BBC

ECONOMY

China spearheads West African business

When Ivory Coast put out a tender to build a bridge downtown in Abidjan, most companies expressing interest were Chinese firms. The area’s fast-growing economies have seen a spectacular rise in loans from China.

South China Morning Post

Cipla acquisitions to boost African business

As part of its growth strategy, the Indian pharmaceutical company is looking at product in-licensing. Its Africa portfolio includes central nervous system, respiratory and HIV drugs.

Business Standard

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The Danza de las Tijeras, or Scissors Dance, is an original dance from the south of the Peruvian Andes. (Photo by Geraint Rowland) Photo used under CC BY

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