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School children in Manila, Philippines have been out of school for many months to curb the spread of COVID. The country has utilized various methods to continue education for children including lessons via radio and television, but the effects of lockdown like anxiety and depression remain. Pre-COVID, students are shown lined up to welcome the World Bank Group President. (Photo by World Bank Photo Collection) Photo used under CC BY

Homebound, kids in Manila face risks beyond COVID

Last year the Philippines enforced one of the world’s longest lockdowns in its capital region, Metro Manila, to stave off COVID-19. Now, depression and sexual abuse are among the challenges young Filipinos face as record-breaking COVID cases force another lockdown.

Al Jazeera

Philippines experience third generation COVID variant

Forbes

Taliban warns US to honor troop withdrawal

The Taliban warned the U.S. against defying a May 1 deadline for the withdrawal of American and NATO troops from Afghanistan, promising a “reaction," which could mean increased attacks by the insurgent group.

ABC News

Malnutrition, mass floods stalk S. Sudan’s villages

Two years of torrential rains have left 1.6 million people in South Sudan’s Jonglei province without crops and with their homes flooded. But, with extraordinary resilience, people in Old Fangak are working together to rebuild their lives.

Guardian

UN: South Sudan political, military leaders to blame for inter-communal violence

Voice of America

World Bank funds vaccines for poor nations

The World Bank has announced financing for Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal to vaccinate their populations against COVID-19. The countries are among Asia’s poorest nations by gross domestic product per capita.

Al Jazeera

US to ‘loan’ vaccines to Canada and Mexico

Al Jazeera

Cubans take to sea to escape economic crisis

While so far the numbers of Cuban migrants taking to the seas are far less than the rafters crisis of the 1990’s, when thousands of people attempted the dangerous crossing by boat, the increase is raising alarms.

CNN

Camera captures moment boat carrying Cuban migrants flips over

CNN

HUMAN RIGHTS

Growth of homelessness in 2020, ‘devastating’

America’s homeless population grew last year for the fourth year in a row. On a single night in January 2020, there were more than 580,000 homeless individuals in the U.S.

NPR

Gujarat’s land-grabbing law hurts women, poor

A new law to curb illegal land occupation in the western Indian state of Gujarat is hurting the urban poor, women and lower-caste Dalits, land rights groups said, with thousands facing eviction and loss of their livelihoods.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Deadly fate of ‘disappeared’ women in Peru

UN called violence against women across the world during lockdowns a “shadow pandemic”. A total of 138 femicides were reported by the authorities in Peru in 2020, but over 5,521 women were officially recorded as missing.

Guardian

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Welsh schools will require Black history lessons

All pupils in Wales are to be taught about racism and the contributions of black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, the devolved government has said.

Guardian

Spain passes law allowing euthanasia

Spain has passed a law to legalize euthanasia, becoming the fourth country in Europe to allow people to end their own life in some circumstances - an offense that before passage of the law, was punishable by a jail term of up to 10 years.

BBC

Dictionary project may unite Korean peninsula

South Korea hopes that a joint project to create a comprehensive record of the two Koreas’ shared language can help bridge the divide between the nations.

Deutsche Welle

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Climate-friendly jet fuel made from food waste

A group of U.S. based researchers looked into the prospect of converting food waste into jet fuel. Chemically, the results are excellent, economically, the situation is not nearly so great, but the possibility is real.

Wired

The last children on an aging South Korean island

Guardian

New Dead Sea Scrolls discovered after 60 years

A new set of Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient fragments of biblical texts dating back almost 2,000 years and thought to have been hidden during a Jewish revolt against Rome, have been found in the West Bank.

NBCNews.com

GLOBAL HEALTH

Fight against tuberculosis set back 12 years

Twelve months of COVID-19 has reversed 12 years of global progress against tuberculosis, worse than previously estimated according to research published by a coalition working to end TB.

Guardian

Overcrowded hospitals during COVID cost lives

Two recent studies from both the U.S and the UK shows that when ICUs fill up, COVID-19 patients’ chances of dying from the disease rise dramatically — despite improvements in treatment and care developed since last spring.

NPR

Palestinians get 60k vaccines through WHO

The Palestinian Authority it will receive around 60,000 coronavirus vaccine doses over the next 48 hours, the first shipment provided by a World Health Organization partnership aimed at helping poor countries.

Associated Press

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GOOD NEWS

Nigerian designers fashion a new aesthetic

Weaving contemporary designs into a traditional West African fabric, Nigerian Tsemaye Binitie is creating fashion he hopes can also bridge the gap between luxury and the everyday.

Reuters

Climbing Europe’s tallest chimney

CNN

Meet Maleesha Kharwa: The ‘slum princess’ of India

Deutsche Welle

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Nonprofits feed thousands of touring staff

Food insecurity nonprofits new and old are shifting focus to feeding and employing out-of-work tour crew members.

Billboard

Nonprofit helps veterans, kids with autism

Jan Lopez, funder and president of B.E.S.T Service Dogs has taken her passion of puppies and turned it into a service for children on the autism spectrum and veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder.

KCRA 3

Boy helps save pups from dog meat trade

8-year-old Rhys Stevens from England, created a fundraiser to benefit canines rescued from the dog meat trade. Rhys was inspired to start the effort after watching a documentary about the dog meat trade.

People

ENVIRONMENT

Mice ravage rural communities in Australia

Rural communities in the Australian state of New South Wales are battling a “plague” of mice. Thousands of mice are invading grain silos, barns and homes and infesting the farmers’ bumper grain harvest.

Deutsche Welle

10M+ displaced by climate disasters in 6 mos

About 10.3 million people were displaced by climate change-induced events such as flooding and droughts in the last six months, the majority of them in Asia.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Nigeria’s soilless farming pioneer

Deutsche Welle

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

US terrorism sponsor list halts Cuba banking

Former President Trump’s move to put Cuba on the U.S. terrorism sponsor list while in office threw up fresh obstacles to international banking with the island, according to Havana-based businessmen and diplomats.

Reuters

Naj Austin centers people of color through tech platforms focused on wellness and community

Well and Good

Yemen conflict escalates as famine looms

The United Nations warned that an offensive by Houthi rebels in Yemen has escalated the nearly six-year conflict in the Arab world’s poorest nation as it “speeds towards a massive famine.”

Associated Press

Photo of the Day

Brazil’s government has initiated its COVID vaccination campaign. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) has discovered that Pfizer employed “high-level bullying” against Brazil and Argentina during negotiations to acquire vaccines, including requesting the nations put sovereign assets as collateral for payments. (Photo by Governo do Estado de São Paulo) Photo used under CC BY

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