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South Sudan, UN Compound, Juba, February 2014. In the five years of South Sudan’s civil war, 1.9 million have fled to camps within the country, where the UN provides physical protection as well as food rations amidst an ongoing famine. (Photo by Petterik Wiggers/Panos Pictures) Photo used under CC BY

Women risk rape to feed their families in S. Sudan

Right outside the largest refugee camp in Juba, South Sudan, women prepare to go to the forest to cut firewood. They say banding together offers them a sense of security when going to the woods. The UN estimates that 70 percent of women living in camps have been raped.

CNN

Venezuela legalizes money exchange operations

Venezuela’s all-powerful Constituent Assembly voted to legalize money exchange operations to relax the strict currency controls imposed by the social government that have throttled the oil-rich nation’s economy.

Reuters

Colombia lends hand to Venezuelan refugees

ABC News

In Yemen, war imperils lives of pregnant women

Hundreds of pregnant women in the Yemeni city of Hodeidah risk dying as the escalating conflict puts medical care out of reach in a country with one of the world’s highest maternal mortality rates, the UN said.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Congo to use Ebola vaccine starting next week

Congo will start using an Ebola vaccine as early as next week to counter a new flare-up in the eastern part of country, which emerged as an earlier outbreak was pronounced over.

Reuters

Italian minister wants to end anti-racism law

Family Minister Lorenzo Fontana has called for abolishing a 1993 law condemning racist violence, hatred and discrimination, saying “globalists” were using it to “disguise their anti-Italian racism as anti-Fascism.”

ABC News

Anti-corruption protests paralyze Bangladesh

Dhaka remained largely cut off from the rest of Bangladesh, with local and long-distance buses staying off the roads, after five days of street demonstrations by young protesters demanding less corruption and safer streets.

Seattle Times

Student protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Voice of America

HUMAN RIGHTS

UN concerned over Saudi rights crackdown

The UN has expressed concern over the continuing and “apparently arbitrary” crackdown on Saudi human rights activists after two more prominent female campaigners were arrested in the kingdom.

Guardian

S. Africa occupiers accuse police of brutality

Land occupiers in Tembisa, South Africa, say they have been at the receiving end of violent, persistent and unlawful attacks by police.

allAfrica.com

Can reform lead to racial harmony?

Inverse

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

European populists monitoring ‘sham’ elections

A group of European populist and nationalist politicians descended upon Cambodia last weekend to observe national elections - which they lauded with glowing reviews as being free and fair.

BBC

UN: Trump’s media attacks may lead to violence

U.S. President Donald Trump’s verbal attacks on the media run the risk of triggering real violence against journalists, the UN reporter for freedom of expression said.

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Trucker shortage driving diversification

Trucking firms are desperate to add more women and minority drivers, who make up a fraction of the fleet, to help meet a shortage of drivers. The industry is also implementing pay increases and better job experiences.

Christian Science Monitor

Special section:

Psychological stressors affect truck drivers, contributing to shortages

University of Arkansas

Scientists show Bermuda’s Triangle secrets

According to “The Bermuda Triangle Enigma” on Britain’s Channel 5, scientists now believe conditions in that area were just right for massive rogue waves.

Huffington Post

GLOBAL HEALTH

UN moves to unblock aid to N. Korea

The UN Security Council is to back a U.S. proposal aimed at removing hurdles that tough sanctions on North Korea have thrown up in the way of delivering humanitarian aid.

Yahoo! News

Fears of new cholera outbreak amidst violence

Violence is escalating in Yemen, raising fears of a new cholera outbreak in the port city of Hodeidah. Saudi-UAE coalition jets have launched new air attacks on the city, which is held by Houthi rebels.

Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

New German law raises Syrian family’s hopes

When Oudai Alhomsi left his wife, toddler son and 8-month-old daughter in Jordan to seek asylum in Germany in 2015, he thought they would join him in just months.

Reuters

Group shows conservation is working

Around the world, biodiversity is declining. A report aims to inspire action by showcasing some of the species for which progress is slowly being made.

Positive News

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

March of Dimes cancels grants, clips research

The March of Dimes made the decision to revoke the grants because of a budget shortfall. The group is known for its work on preventing and treating pre-term births and birth defects.

Nature

African Forum to explore collaboration

The conference aims to create a platform for speakers and delegates to discuss tailored solutions to issues around health, population explosion, education, regional integration in Africa and climate change among others.

Sandton Chronicle

ENVIRONMENT

Indigenous fighting uphill battle on land rights

The process by which indigenous groups can obtain land titles is costly, complex, and long, dragging on for decades. By contrast, plantation companies and loggers can snag titles to the same land in just weeks, months.

Mongabay

Special section:

Are we losing indigenous languages?

Geographical

Albania seeks bids for first solar plant

With more than 90 percent of Albania’s power being produced from rivers and a newly built power plant not functioning, the Socialist government wants to install 120 megawatts of solar and 70 MW of wind power capacity.

Business Insider

ECONOMY

Nigeria building to ease crippling congestion

The government meeting approved funds for the reconstruction of the road from Apapa to the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Officials expressed optimism that the development would enhance cargo movement and ease crippling traffic congestion.

Vanguard

Video shows how drastic traffic is, almost apocalyptic

YouTube

Zimbabwe industry react to Mnangagwa win

The business community in particular, has high expectations that the next president will prioritize tackling the liquidity problems in the country, as well as the smuggling of goods.

African Business Magazine

African leaders seek to tackle illegal financing

Former President of Tanzania has urged African leaders to combat illicit financial flows by re-thinking models of development. There is evidence on the continent that illicit financial flows exceed overseas assistance.

Citizen

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Woman in Tanzania has solar lighting and electricity in her home at the flick of a switch. (Photo by Russell Watkins/Department for International Development) Photo used under CC BY

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