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Boran cattle grazing at Kapiti ranch in Kenya. The increase in average individual meat consumption means total meat production has been growing at a much faster than the rate of population growth, increasing four- or fivefold since 1961. (Photo by International Livestock Research Institute) Photo used under CC BY

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Rising meat consumption will devastate environment

Rising global meat consumption is likely to have a devastating environmental impact. A new major analysis suggests meat consumption is set to climb steeply, and will increase carbon emissions and reduce biodiversity.

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Guardian

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Climate change made heat wave likely

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BBC

New Nigerian commander battles Boko Haram

Nigeria has named its fourth commander in 14 months to lead the fight against the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency, a move that comes after a series of embarrassing military defeats.

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Reuters

Emerging powers back ‘open world economy’

The leaders of the Brics emerging economies have signed a declaration stressing the importance of an “open world economy”, in which all countries benefit from globalisation.

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BBC

Zimbabwe jobless hope election marks change

More than 40 percent of Zimbabwe’s registered voters are under 35, and unemployment is estimated at over 90 percent. Young voters hope the first election without Mugabe will change a country where most are unemployed.

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Reuters

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Nicaraguans mark 100 days of deadly protests

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Al Jazeera

Refugees find safe haven but no secure future

Refugees who fled war in Syria have found a safe haven on the tiny Greek island of Tilos. But a lack of jobs is preventing them from settling there permanently.

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

#MeToo movement gains momentum in China

Accusations of sexual assault spread across China’s social media this week as the #MeToo movement took aim at prominent activists, intellectuals and a television personality.

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Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Children mine cobalt in slavelike conditions

Cobalt is mined in a string of countries around the world, including Australia, but most of the world’s supply comes from just one country in Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo — a nation with a long record of poorly enforced labor standards and child exploitation.

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Australian Broadcast Company

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The precious metal sparking a new gold rush

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BBC

Trump targets migrant spouses’ work permits

Trump is expected to formally rescind work permits for spouses of immigrants, potentially upending the lives of tens of thousands of immigrants who took advantage of the H4EAD work permits.

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Guardian

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Ins and outs of Cuba’s new constitution

A draft of an updated constitution for Cuba approved by the island‘s National Assembly this month has made headlines as much for what was left out as what was put in. Here are highlights of what’s in, what‘s out and what’s staying in the proposed new Cuban constitution.

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BBC

Russia’s Putin says he invited Trump to Moscow

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he had invited U.S. President Donald Trump to Moscow and that both he and Trump were ready for further summits, but that conditions needed to be right for a meeting to take place.

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Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Sokowatch closes deal to modernize B2B retail

Sokowatch’s platform connects Africa’s informal retail stores directly to local and multinational suppliers, such as Unilever and Proctor and Gamble, by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of reducing costs and increasing profit margins.

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TechCrunch

Field data estimates harvest and emissions

Using LiDAR data, governments, NGOs and private organizations can verify timber harvests, formulate management plans, and estimate harvest and gas emissions in tropical forests, including areas of illegal logging.

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Mongabay

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Australian startup making LiDAR cheaper

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CNET

GLOBAL HEALTH

Deleted post fueled China vaccine scandal

The story began when a large vaccine manufacturer was forced to recall ineffective doses of vaccines. Then earlier this July, a government investigation caught Changsheng falsifying data about its rabies vaccine.

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The Atlantic

Chad health centers overrun by sick children

A charity has already doubled capacity at a main feeding center. Malnutrition peaks in Chad every year in the season before harvest begins. This year, West Africa’s Sahel began to run out of food in March after a dry spell.

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Reuters

HIV strains may cause quicker illness

Mutated strains of HIV circulating in a Canadian province where HIV rates rank among the highest in North America could be leading to the more rapid development of AIDS-related illnesses, according to new research.

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Guardian

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Aaron Dorfman):

How can philanthropy do more good?

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Column (Yarik Turianskyi):

Africa: Open Government Partnership - Promoting Democracy Amid Global Turmoil

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Charles Mills trying to save liberal political philosophy from itself

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The Nation

Column (Olabisi Akinkugbe):

Nigeria had good reasons to delay signing Africa’s free trade deal

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Quartz

Column (Bernie Sanders):

Bail has criminalized poverty and undermined the tenet of ‘innocent before proven guilty’

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NBCNews.com

Column (Aaron David Miller and Richard Sokolsky):

Trump has acted foolishly on Iran. Let’s hope he avoids war

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NPR

Column (Rafia Zakaria):

An Imran Khan victory would bode poorly for Pakistani women

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CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Machete attack survivor to climb Kilimanjaro

A woman with albinism whose arms were hacked off as she slept with her young son is to climb Africa’s highest mountain to raise awareness of the abuse and violence faced by people with the condition.

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

Kenyan saves 15,000 girls from FGM

Leng’ete was recently named one of Time’s Most Influential People for good reason. The Kenyan has made it her life’s work to help young African girls escape “female cutting.”

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Ebony

Teens help foster kids headed back to school

Two high schoolers from Louisiana have started an effort they call "Kindness for Everybody with the goal to supply backpacks filled with necessities to as many foster teens as they can.

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MSN

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Student refuses to take her seat, delays plane from deporting man

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USA TODAY

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Nonprofits battle institutional distrust

The Edelman firm has surveyed people across several countries to measure the public’s trust in business, media, government and non-governmental organizations. For the first time last year, trust declined in all.

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Oregon Business

NGOs condemn India’s anti-trafficking bill

The government passed the bill to prevent trafficking and prosecute offenders. The fear is that “the proposed law would give even more power to the police ... to harass the already vulnerable community of sex workers.”

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Business Standard

ENVIRONMENT

Crop failures threaten European farmers

States of emergency have been declared in Latvia and Lithuania, while the sun continues to bake Swedish fields that have received only 12 percent of their normal rainfall.

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Guardian

Typhoon set to bring misery to Japan

A typhoon expected to take an unusual route across Japan is forecast to make landfall over the weekend, with the Meteorological Agency calling for people in western Japan to be vigilant for further landslides and flooding.

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Japan Times

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In-Depth: Typhoon Jongdari grows stronger

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YouTube

ECONOMY

US insists Africans must wear used clothes

In March 2016, the East African Community decided to ban the importation of used clothes by 2019, sparking a trade war between Rwanda and the U.S. after the U.S. insisted that Africa wear clothes already used by Americans.

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African nations embracing ‘blue economy’

An increasing number of African countries are now embracing the blue economy for its potential to deliver solutions to their most pressing development needs – particularly extreme poverty and hunger.

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africa.com

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Infographic: The Blue Economy is a sustainable use of ocean’s resources.

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World Bank

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A Balinese dancer. (Photo by Klaus Stiefel) Photo used under CC BY

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