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Extreme poverty rising in Nigeria, down in India

A recent report shows that the number of people living in extreme poverty in Nigeria has exceeded that in India, which used to rank highest for severe poverty.

Borgen Magazine

SE Asia banks on hydropower despite risks

Southeast Asian nations such as Laos and Cambodia are banking on hydropower for their energy needs, constructing large dams that hurt fish populations and causing soil erosion, hitting the economic fortunes of communities.

CNBC

Organic solar cells set ‘remarkable’ energy record

BBC

N. Korea faces food crisis as crops fail in heat wave

A heat wave in North Korea has led to rice, maize and other crops withering in the fields, “with potentially catastrophic effects,” the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said.

Reuters

In Yemen, ‘nearly all children’ at risk from war

Saudi Arabia is behind “the single biggest attack on children” during the war in Yemen, rights groups say. With no end in sight, observers are asking whether targeting children is a new feature of the brutal conflict.

Deutsche Welle

Yemen: Dozens of civilians killed in school bus attack

Al Jazeera

Rare drone footage captures life amid the rubble in war-torn city, Yemen

CNN

NGO transforms lives of Kenya prisoners

African Prisons Project works to provide education and healthcare in prisons on the continent. The APP trains prisoners and prison staff as lawyers. So far, 3,000 people have been released from the Ugandan and Kenyan prisons after getting legal services.

CNN

HUMAN RIGHTS

Uighur Muslims across China live fearfully

A regional Communist party strongman has instituted hard-line policies. While the government has justified its use of force as a response to violence, critics claim the measures are aimed at destroying Uighur identity.

Guardian

Italy’s Salvini rails against same-sex families

Italy’s right party supports the wording on official forms be changed so that same-sex couples cannot declare themselves as a child’s parents. Support for the party has surged.

U.S. News & World Report

Chile’s Bachelet to be UN human rights chief

The United Nations General Assembly approved the appointment of former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet as the world body’s high commissioner for human rights.

Reuters

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Japan, S. Korea asked to champion democracy

A deeply embedded instrumentalist or pragmatic view of democracy largely accounts for the phenomena of authoritarian resilience and democratic erosion in Asia in recent times.

The Australian

Botswana bent on eradicating poverty

Government continues to prioritise poverty eradication programmes aimed at eliminating poverty in all forms, the Assistant Minister of Presidential Affairs Governance and Public Administration Mr Machana Shamukuni has said.

allAfrica.com

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

‘Hydrogen wall’ spotted at solar system’s edge

There’s a “hydrogen wall” at the edge of our solar system, and NASA scientists think their New Horizons spacecraft can see it.

LiveScience

Scientists root out ways of stomach viruses

New research published in Cell Host & Microbe found that stomach infections, like norovirus and rotavirus, are more contagious and more potent when the virus particles cluster together.

NPR

Microbe study will help predict climate change

Scientists say a database of the marine microbes in Australia’s oceans will help better predict the impact of climate change on marine life.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Moonless sky will frame Perseid meteor shower

If you have clear skies, this deep darkness should deliver a performance on the evening of August 12, with rates of up to 120 shootings stars an hour visible from the countryside.

National Geographic

Catch the livestream of the Perseids Meteor shower here

YouTube

GLOBAL HEALTH

Smartphones’ blue light may harm sight

Scientists have found shocking evidence which could prove blue light from smartphones, laptops and other digital devices damages vision and can speed up blindness.

Metro

DR-Congo deploys experimental Ebola vaccine

Testing and approving an Ebola vaccine is a priority for health officials as further outbreaks are expected — and the U.S. hopes to get the Food and Drug Administration to consider approval for a vaccine in 18 months or so.

Axios

Health workers are also being vaccinated

YouTube

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GOOD NEWS

Orphanage doesn’t seem like an orphanage

What if someone tried to set up a good orphanage, a place where parentless kids could thrive? What would it look like? And what could it tell us about the basics of child rearing?

NPR

Stateless soccer players get Thai citizenship

Three boys from the Wild Boar soccer team and their coach, who were rescued from deep within a flooded cave in Thailand last month, have been granted Thai citizenship.

CNN

PHILANTHROPY AND NONPROFITS

Many NGO workers don’t speak local tongue

We conducted a three-year project to explore the role of languages in international development, in conjunction with UK-based NGO INTRAC. We interviewed dozens of NGOs, officials from the UK’s Department of International Development (DfID), and conducted field research in developing countries.

The Conversation

Alibaba head commits $10M for entrepreneurs

Alibaba Group co-founder Jack Ma has announced a $10 million commitment in support of African entrepreneurs working to address urgent challenges and advance the continent’s digital economy through local entrepreneurship.

Philanthropy News Digest

ENVIRONMENT

Australia’s most populous state in drought

Australia’s most populous state was declared entirely in drought. Struggling farmers were given new authority to shoot kangaroos that compete with livestock for sparse pasture during the most intense dry spell in 50 years.

ABC News

Dominica bans plastic, Styrofoam

The fight against single-use plastic has been gathering steam over the past months, but the Caribbean nation of Dominica has taken the crusade to another level.

CNN

ECONOMY

Currency meltdown in Turkey threatens Europe

Worries over a fragile Turkish economy and the risk of contagion in Europe unnerved investors on Friday and sent the lira to a record low against the US dollar.

CNNMoney

EU-Africa free trade will create more imbalances, say critics

Deutsche Welle

Core inflation reading jumps the most since ’08

U.S. consumer prices rose in July and the underlying trend continued to strengthen, pointing to a steady increase in inflation pressures that keeps the Federal Reserve on track to gradually raise interest rates.

CNBC

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Workers at the building works of the RDT Orphanage of Bathalapalli, Anantapur. (Photo by Pepe Pont) Photo used under CC BY

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