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Children eating foods provided by USAID to reduce and treat malnutrition among children in Ethiopia. The United Nations has warned of famine in the embattled corner of northern Ethiopia, calling it the world’s worst hunger crisis in a decade. A blockade has prevented humanitarian aid from entering the region forcing Ethiopians to eat green leaves. (Photo by USAID Africa Bureau) Photo used under CC BY

Forced starvation smacks Ethiopians amid blockade

For months, the United Nations has warned of famine in this embattled corner of northern Ethiopia. Now internal documents and witness accounts reveal the first starvation deaths since Ethiopia’s government imposed what the U.N. calls “a de facto humanitarian aid blockade.”

Associated Press

India restarts COVID vaccine exports in October

India will resume exports of COVID-19 vaccines in the October quarter, prioritizing the global vaccine-sharing platform COVAX and neighboring countries first as supplies rise, the health minister said on Monday.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Older Afghan girls face tense wait on schooling

Some Afghan girls returned to primary schools with gender-segregated classes this week, but older girls faced an anxious wait with no clarity over if and when they would be able to resume their studies at the secondary school level under fundamentalist policies.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Afghanistan‘s Taliban say working on reopening girls’ high schools

Reuters

Afghan women fight to retain places in society

Deutesche Welle

France apologizes to ostracized Algerians

French President Emmanuel Macron apologized this week to Algerians who fought alongside French colonial forces in Algeria’s war for independence, and were then massacred and ostracized as traitors.

Associated Press

Algeria buries former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Al Jazeera

China limits children’s use of social media

Douyin, China’s version of TikTok, will limit use of the platform for children to 40 minutes a day. The rules will apply to users under 14, who have been authenticated using their real names.

BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

First Nation gets clean water after 24-year wait

Residents of a First Nations community in Canada, who were deprived of clean drinking water for nearly a quarter of a century, can now drink from their taps after a water treatment facility became fully operational.

Guardian

Mexico’s abortion ruling shakes its region

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake literally shook on the day the Mexican Supreme Court decriminalized abortion But the shockwaves sent across the region by the court’s abortion ruling will be felt for much longer.

CNN

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Lebanon’s finance minister renews bank audit

Lebanon’s incoming finance minister signed a contract this week to conduct a forensic audit of the country’s central bank, a key demand of the international community to restore confidence in the crisis-struck country.

Associated Press

Libyan parliament pulls confidence in unity govt

Libya’s eastern-based parliament said this week it had withdrawn confidence from the unity government, though it would continue to operate as a caretaker administration.

Reuters

Tunisian president declares transitional rules

Tunisian President Kais Saied said this week he had instituted transitional governing rules and would introduce a new electoral law, in a speech that came eight weeks after he seized power in a move his foes called a coup.

Reuters

Will Tunisia’s political crisis deepen?

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Mobile app is helping Afghans navigate Kabul

As the Taliban entered Kabul last month, the team behind the crowdsourced news alert app Ehtesab deserted their office in the city. But they continued their work of providing Afghans with critical information.

CNN

Scientists identify land-roaming whale species

Egyptian scientists say the fossil of a four-legged prehistoric whale, unearthed over a decade ago in the country’s Western Desert, is that of a previously unknown species.

Associated Press

Biotech firm to resurrect woolly mammoth

A technology entrepreneur and a geneticist this week launched a new biotech firm which they say will bring the extinct woolly mammoth back to life.

Deutsche Welle

GLOBAL HEALTH

Africa slowly copies Moderna COVID shot

Efforts to develop an African base for COVID vaccine production will focus on trying to replicate Moderna’s shot, but a lack of progress in talks with the U.S. company mean the project will take time, a WHO official said.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

EU to donate 200M vaccines to poor countries

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the EU’s vaccination drive was done “the right way” and vowed to donate 200 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to low-income countries.

Deutsche Welle

New ovarian cancer treatment shows promise

Thousands of women with ovarian cancer could benefit from a revolutionary drug combination after it was shown to shrink tumors in half of patients with an advanced form of the disease.

Guardian

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Michael Kugelman):

How real is the threat of Taliban infighting?

Deutsche Welle

Column (Kim Heacox):

Rain fell on Greenland’s ice sheet for the first time ever known. Alarms should ring

Guardian

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Libya’s interim government must end civil society crackdown

Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

Woman gives birth to twin sister’s baby

When Cathey Stoner gave birth to a baby boy last month, it was a miracle years in the making. Stoner serving as a surrogate for her sister who could not carry a pregnancy after being diagnosed with cancer in her uterus.

Good Morning America

Man teaches kids life lessons through chess

CBS

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

GM commits $50M to education, employment

General Motors has announced plans to invest $50 million in support of efforts to expand access to education and employment and strengthen neighborhoods in Detroit.

Philanthropy News Digest

Donors plan to maintain, increase giving

A year and a half into the COVID pandemic, donors remain committed to philanthropy with most planning to maintain or even further increase their donations in 2021.

NonProfit Times

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Afghans fight off hunger under the Taliban

Kabul is a city still waiting for its new life to take shape - a lot depends on the will and whims of its new Taliban masters. But it is hunger that could become the worst of Afghanistan’s many crises.

BBC

Congo’s Ebola orphans work to survive

Thousands of children in eastern Congo lost parents to the 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak, the United Nations estimates. Discrimination around the disease has forced many children to work in order to be able to eat.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

20% of Nigeria’s workers lost jobs to COVID

A new report published this week offers a grim assessment of how the pandemic has roiled Nigeria’s economy and had an uneven impact across both the formal and informal sectors.

Al Jazeera

ENVIRONMENT

Weather extremes threaten giant sequoia trees

Hot and dry weather this week added to the challenges facing California firefighters battling to keep flames from driving further into a grove of ancient sequoias.

Guardian

The link between climate change, seaweed and ice cream

BBC

Canary Island eruption forces mass evacuation

Authorities in Spain’s Atlantic Ocean island of La Palma have evacuated thousands of people after a volcano erupted this week with lava flows destroying isolated houses and threatening to reach the coast.

Al Jazeera

Lava destroys homes in the Canary Islands

BBC

Photo of the Day

Man taking care of an orphaned elephant at Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage in Sri Lanka. This orphanage provides a lifeline to the orphaned baby elephants and orphaned elephants lost in the wilderness. Wild elephants in Sri Lanka have been subject to trafficking but environmentalist are fighting to protect them from being illegal captured and purchased. (Photo by Puviraj Diluckshan) Photo used under CC BY

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