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A two-year-old child in Sierra Leone suffering from severe diarrhea. Rotavirus vaccines were introduced in Sierra Leone at the start of 2011 with the support of the GAVI Alliance and UK aid. International development assistance for health rose to a peak of $56 billion in 2013 but donor assistance for global health has flat-lined since 2014, even though about 7,000 people still die each day of the preventable diseases. (Photo by Doune Porter / GAVI) Photo used under CC BY

Political inaction reversing gains on disease prevention

International aid financing and innovation has helped to save nearly 700 million lives in the past 25 years, but those gains could be lost if momentum and political will wane, global health experts have said.

Reuters

Women disciplined at higher rates in US prisons

Across the U.S., women in prison are disciplined at higher rates than men — often two to three times more often, and sometimes more — for smaller infractions of prison rules, according to a new investigation.

NPR

Women in Arizona prison say toilet paper is being withheld

KJZZ

Ebola outbreak worsens chaos in war-torn DRC

In Democratic Republic of Congo, about 6 million children are affected by conflict, many of them in North Kivu in the country’s east. Now, this same province is the epicenter of a new Ebola outbreak that threatens to further increase the chaos.

Al Jazeera

DRC identifies ‘second wave’ of Ebola in east

News24

Group is fighting breast ironing in Cameroon

Young girls in Cameroon have their breasts bound or beaten with stones by those who believe it protects them from sexual harassment and early marriage. A women’s rights group is fighting back.

Deutsche Welle

Schooling can stop 50M child marriages

Child marriage is one of the leading reasons for school drop-out in low-income countries. Making girls study up to high school can help prevent at least 50 million child marriages across the world by 2030.

Economic Times

Poor Venezuelans turn to nearby countries

Hyperinflation, daily power cuts and worsening food shortages are prompting poor Venezuelans to flee, braving harsh geography, criminal handlers and restrictive immigration laws to try their luck in neighboring countries.

Devdiscourse

HUMAN RIGHTS

Bhutan’s minority group blocked from voting

Bhutan still describes the Lhotshampa as immigrants, justifying its laws as essential for national identity and stability. The rules have created a monolithic political environment leaving little room for minority rights.

Channel NewsAsia

Hondurans assemble caravan en route to US

Hundreds more Hondurans have joined a caravan of migrants moving toward the country’s border with Guatemala in a desperate attempt to flee poverty and seek new lives in the U.S.

NBCNews.com

Rohingya fear deportation to Myanmar

Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Uzbekistan opens up after years of isolation

Uzbekistan was until recently one of the world’s most isolated countries, with institutionalized forced labor on its vast cotton fields, a torture record and restricted individual freedoms. Now, the country’s opening up.

Al Jazeera

Sudanese Foreign Minister opens up on human rights, policy

Al Jazeera

Italy’s PM orders refugee removal from town

The decision, which follows the house arrest earlier this month of the town’s mayor, Domenico Lucano, effectively shuts down a project that also provided work for Italians.

Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Tech startup gives power of AI to Indian farmers

This new app cross-reference crop photos against a database using image recognition, a type of machine-learning. It can detect if a certain crop isn’t getting enough water or is nutrient deficient.

Forbes

AI can be used to forecast armed violence

A new coding system estimates the likelihood of violence by extrapolating from statistical reports and analyzing text in the news to detect tensions and military developments.

Nature

GLOBAL HEALTH

Heart disease now seeks out the Global South

In poor countries today, more than half of people who die from heart disease are well under 70. Those people are also the poorest in those countries; wealthier people have access to lifestyles that keep the disease at bay.

Vox

Experts warn of influenza pandemic

New strains of flu continue to emerge and experts warn that another pandemic could happen despite a century of advances in technology and health care.

BBC

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GOOD NEWS

Village celebrates newborn girls with trees

In a state where female foeticide is rampant, a village chief of Piplantri village in Rajasthan, India, is quietly sowing seeds for a cultural, environmental and political revolution by celebrating a girl’s birth by planting trees.

Guardian

Fee waver pushes Native Americans to school

The tuition waver policy helps determine Native American student enrollment at one University. Today, the waiver admits students who can demonstrate a connection to a federally recognized Native American tribe.

U.S. News & World Report

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

African workers buck aid stereotype

The vast majority of people who run aid projects in Africa are in fact Africans. A huge amount of their time is devoted to confronting the difficulties of delivering assistance in places with poor roads or flooded tracks.

BBC

Vox compiles best charities for donations

Vox

Aid groups decry routine killings of Yemenis

The Norwegian Refugee Council and the UN condemned an attack in Hodeida, calling such a strike on Yemenis as “unacceptable.” These attacks have become frequent and regular.

ABC News

Boko Haram threatens to kill kidnapped aid workers

CNN

ENVIRONMENT

Delhi braces for smog, as farmers prep land

Farmers burn residue to prepare for the next season’s planting. Despite calls for change, it’s still much cheaper to burn the residue, leaving behind dangerous smoke for citizens to bear.

Reuters

Global warming hits barley yields, setting to make beer more expensive

Deutsche Welle

Fracking starts in UK amid angry protests

Energy firm Cuadrilla confirmed that work at started at a site in Lancashire. Local citizens have been demanding tests be completed before the firm can begin fracking.

The Independent

Australian policy ignoring Reef’s viability in changing climate

Asia Times Online

ECONOMY AND TRADE

Ethiopia and Eritrea are back in business

Buses full of visitors and trucks piled high with bricks make their way across the newly opened borders, watched by relaxed soldiers who just months ago stared each other down from trenches carved into the rocky soil.

Mail & Guardian

Kenya hinders ivory trade, but doubt remains

Kenya has been delisted from the eight countries of global notoriety in illegal ivory trade, even as some complained that the process through which it was being let off the hook had become a charade.

Daily Nation

Photo of the Day

Young boys in Lakes looking after the cattle that are central to many. Raids over cattle, water and pasture have forced thousands from their homes, while Oxfam supports local peace-building and reconciliation efforts. (Photo by Alun McDonald) Photo used under CC BY

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