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A major crisis continues to grip Africa’s Lake Chad basin, where violence and destruction have caused huge displacements, left thousands of children trapped behind conflict lines and led to an increase in malnutrition. Boko Haram’s attacks and military operations have displaced 2.4 million people across northeastern Nigeria, Cameroon’s Far North, southeast Niger and western Chad. (Photo by Espen Røst / Bistandsaktuelt) Photo used under CC BY

Boko Haram traumas evoke fear, vengefulness

Children have seen the brutality of the armed group firsthand. They are now displaced after fleeing their home communities to escape from Boko Haram. Adults struggle to turn their pain into positive outlooks.

Al Jazeera

Latin America grieves cultural losses in blaze

For more than 200 years, Brazil’s National Museum stood as the country’s oldest and most important safeguard for its heritage. Now, one of Latin America’s largest natural history museums is a burnt-out husk of its former self.

National Geographic

Brazil museum’s incalculable losses spark outrage

YouTube

India’s ’land mafia’ keeps slum dwellers moving on

Many victims of recent Delhi fires were living in fear of their homes being destroyed through demolitions in the name of development. Slum dwellers across the city have every reason to believe the authorities want them to disappear.

Guardian

Farmers’ protest disrupts capital, targets Modi

Reuters

Typhoon leaves trail of destruction in Japan

Typhoon Jebi — the most powerful typhoon to hit Japan in 25 years — slammed into the western part of the country, killing at least seven and injuring more than 200.

Japan Times

Struggling migrants seek to integrate in Spain

More than 30,000 migrants have entered Spain illegally since the start of the year, the highest number in more than a decade. Once they reach Spain, some move on to other countries, while others start life immediately.

BBC

Spain criticized on response to immigration

Irish Times

Inactivity puts world at risk of disease

There has been no improvement in levels of physical activity among men and women for 15 years. More than a quarter of adults across the world do not exercise sufficiently.

Deutsche Welle

HUMAN RIGHTS

Many pro-democracy activists held in DR Congo

Police arrested and violently dispersed scores of pro-democracy activists protesting against controversial voting machines that the government wants to use in key elections later this year.

Daily Mail

Rebels ambush S. African peacekeepers

Two South African peacekeepers were wounded in a rebel ambush near the epicenter of an Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, their UN mission said.

Reuters

S. Sudan accused of killings, torture in jails

Hundreds of people detained in South Sudan face torture and squalor, a new Amnesty International report says, accusing authorities of torturing people to death and letting many others languish behind bars since late 2013.

Associated Press

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Russia to stage war drill with China

From September 11 to 15, Russia will host the largest military exercise since 1981. Code-named “Vostok (East) 2018,” it will be held in the Russian Far East.

Asia Times Online

Venezuela to hike fuel prices by October

Venezuela will hike the price of its heavily subsidized gasoline by October, President Maduro said, as the crisis-stricken government seeks to shore up its coffers.

Reuters

Can the US and Pakistan reset bilateral ties?

Pakistan’s newly elected PM Imran Khan faces the first real test as head of government as he holds talks with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Islamabad. Khan’s maneuvering options are, however, limited.

Deutsche Welle

Iran may use secret oil shipments to skirt US sanctions

Business Insider

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Neolithic remains found in Nile Delta

Archaeologists in Egypt say they have found one of the oldest-known villages in the Nile Delta dating back to the Neolithic era.

Reuters

Scientists find new way to turn sunlight into fuel

A new study used semi-artificial photosynthesis to explore new ways to produce and store solar energy. They used natural sunlight to convert water into hydrogen and oxygen.

ScienceDaily

Little star demonstrates how solar systems form

Astronomers have discovered a dense disk of material around a young star, which may be a precursor to a planetary system. Their research could produce better models of how solar systems form.

ScienceDaily

GLOBAL HEALTH

Oral polio drops linked to paralysis in India

While India’s oral polio vaccine drives have eliminated polio from the country, they have also resulted in over 490,000 cases of paralysis during 2000‒2017, according to a new study.

SciDev.Net

Tech is changing the way you see doctors

Many health apps are now available worldwide to help people in need of medical attention who are unable to get to a doctor for various reasons. Some apps are even exploring the use of artificial intelligence to speed the process.

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Nurse who saved preemie meets grownup doc

A California nurse who never forgot a premature baby she cared for early in her career has been reunited with her patient — now a doctor at the same hospital where he was born 28 years ago.

USA TODAY

LeBron James gifts teen athletes new locker rooms and gear

Radio.com

Warning system in toilets to help FGM victims

Travelers who fear they are at risk of female genital mutilation or trafficking can now alert law enforcement authorities via a color-coded warning system in UK airport toilet cubicles.

Guardian

PHILANTHROPY AND NONPROFITS

YWCA launches women’s empowerment fund

Impact Shares and YWCA USA have announced the launch of an exchange traded fund on the New York Stock Exchange that enables investors to invest in companies aligned with gender-equality standards.

Philanthropy News Digest

Nigerians at risk of starving without aid access

European states warned the UN that more than 800,000 people are cut off from aid and may be starving in northeast Nigeria, contradicting government assertions and rebuking the body for failing to secure access.

U.S. News & World Report

ENVIRONMENT

Zimbabwe to donate 10 white rhinos to Congo

Zimbabwe is donating 10 white rhinos to the Democratic Republic of Congo to re-establish a population driven to extinction by poachers a decade ago.

Reuters

Asia’s need for meat will ‘strain environment’

Asia’s growing appetite for meat and seafood over the next three decades will cause huge increases in greenhouse gas emissions and antibiotics used in foods.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

UN treaty would protect high seas’ exploitation

The first significant steps towards legally protecting the high seas are to take place at the UN in New York. These waters are threatened by deep-sea mining, over-fishing and the patenting of marine genetic resources.

BBC

ECONOMY

Bogota anticipates boom in foreign investment

Colombia’s capital Bogota expects to attract $250 million in foreign investment contracts this year, according to the city’s investment agency, Invest in Bogota.

Colombia Reports

Colombia: ‘I’m not proud cultivating coca, but we have no choice’

Al Jazeera

Automakers claim cutting emissions cost jobs

A lobby group representing European automakers warned that EU proposals for cutting emissions of carbon dioxide could result in manufacturing job losses.

ABC News

China eases economic pressure on N. Korea

China has steadily loosened restrictions on trade with North Korea in recent months, undercutting President Trump’s effort to exert economic pressure on Kim Jong Un’s regime

NBCNews.com

Photo of the Day

Ngikadelio Ngikeny, 7, eats a sachet of Instapaste Ready to Use Therapeutic Food at a health clinic in Turkana County, northwest Kenya. (Photo by Russell Watkins/DFID) Photo used under CC BY

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