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In Malawi, one in 36 women die in childbirth. (Photo by Lindsay Mgbor/Department for International Development) Photo used under CC BY

El Niño to greatly increase risk of death in childbirth

El Niño stokes a higher risk of death in childbirth for millions of women in the world’s harshest crisis zones, midwives have warned. About 15 million babies are due to be born in countries rated as high risk for El Niño.

Guardian

Strike on Gaza hospital kills 6, including a child

An Israeli airstrike hit one of the main hospitals still operating in the Gaza Strip, killing six people, Gaza’s Health Ministry said. The Israeli military said the strike was targeting a Hamas commander.

NPR

Israeli strike on southern Gaza’s biggest hospital further decimates the strip’s healthcare system

Associated Press

Gaza surgeon films aftermath of Israeli strike

Al Jazeera

Gazans struggle to keep warm as winter comes

Flooded tents and high prices leave Gaza families struggling to keep children warm as winter approaches.

Al Jazeera

Humanitarian situation in Gaza worsens amid political deadlock

Deutsche Welle

HUMAN RIGHTS

10 killed in Guinea over gold mining crackdown

Clashes between protesters and security forces enforcing restrictions on gold mining in northeastern Guinea killed 10 people and injured 13 others, the government said.

Associated Press

Some leaving Kyiv to escape winter attacks

Ukrainians are bracing for what many expect to be the hardest winter of the war. Officials and analysts say the badly damaged energy system is increasingly struggling to withstand attacks.

Associated Press

As Russia pounds Ukraine’s infrastructure, Kyiv faces winter blackouts

Deutsche Welle

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Why does El Salvador have troops in Haiti?

Haiti’s prime minister congratulating El Salvador’s president for a gang crackdown in Haiti has shone a light on the relationship between the two countries. What’s going on, and where does the U.S. stand?

Deutsche Welle

El Salvador’s Bukele makes a gamble in Haiti

Associated Press

Burkina Faso’s rival groups turn on each other

Armed fighters from two rival groups have fought a series of increasingly deadly battles along Burkina Faso’s northern border with Mali, as the government struggles to reassert control over large parts of the country.

Al Jazeera

Is Ethiopia’s latest conflict really over already?

Fighting broke out in late September between the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, the party that had run Tigray for decades, and the national army — a resumption of the two-year civil war that officially ended in 2022.

BBC

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Why electrification is a climate game changer

From EVs and electric buses on the road, heat pumps warming homes, and solar panels powering appliances, the shift to electrifying tech is already in full swing. But what exactly does “electrification” mean?

Deutsche Welle

Inside Uganda’s crackdown on online critics

Uganda’s online critics — those who use social media to criticize powerful political and military figures — allege abductions and intimidation as families search for missing relatives.

Al Jazeera

GLOBAL HEALTH

Africans missed days of school due to malaria

Malaria has forced young people entering the workforce in sub-Saharan Africa today to miss nearly 100 days of school on average, according to new research.

The Independent

Ebola tops 11K cases in DR Congo’s outbreak

The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ebola outbreak has topped 11,000 cases, the government said, a stark figure that underscores the severity of the situation as the country grapples with the relentless spread.

NPR

Kenya discharges last Ebola patient

NBCNews.com

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Joy Phumaphi):

Malaria aid cuts will rob children of their futures — here’s what we can do to stop it

The Independent

Editorial:

The Guardian view on Gaza’s misery: Don’t let Palestinian deaths mount in this bleak winter

Guardian

Column (Mateusz Piotrowski):

The real winner in Poland’s constitutional battle is Putin

Al Jazeera

Site edited by: Rachel Barrus, Ashley Nawn and Catherine Lux.

GOOD NEWS

How a Jordan mosque is recycling ritual water

In a country of severe water scarcity, the Abu Obeida mosque in Deir Alla, Jordan, captures ablution wastewater before it reaches the sewers to use for irrigation.

Guardian

Real Madrid player sends message to boy

Real Madrid footballer Vinícius Júnior has sent a surprise video message to 13-year-old Zaher, who lost both his legs after a drone strike in Khartoum, Sudan.

BBC

AID, NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Aid cuts deepen hardship for Gaza refugees

For decades, Palestinians in Lebanon have been supported by the U.N. branch focused on Palestinian refugees, UNRWA. But funding cuts have impeded UNRWA’s ability to provide crucial aid.

Al Jazeera

Forest fund a ‘powerful signal’ over climate aid

With a billion dollars from both Indonesia and Brazil, the “breadth of support” for the global forest protection scheme at COP31 is hailed by the foreign secretary amid aid cuts from nations like the U.S. and U.K.

The Independent

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Mine closure leaves the Maasai without water

After a major African trona ore mine closed, thousands of Maasai in Kenya lost their access to water. Now they’re fighting to survive.

Deutsche Welle

ENVIRONMENT

Kenyans brace for heavy El Niño rainy season

Kenya is expected to receive heavier-than-usual rainfall during the October–December short-rains season, influenced by El Niño conditions, according to the Kenya Meteorological Service Authority.

Associated Press

How climate change is reshaping African lives

How is climate change affecting young Africans today — and what would they do differently? During the COP31 conference, their message to world leaders was clear: Listen to young Africans.

Deutsche Welle

The key financial stand-off between wealthy and smaller nations at the heart of COP31

The Independent

COP31 leaders: Take action for the economy

Reuters

Delhi’s air becomes ‘unfit for human survival’

Health experts have raised the alarm about the effects of severe pollution that has engulfed the Indian capital since the Diwali celebrations and sent hundreds of people to hospital with respiratory ailments.

The Independent

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Ethiopians cross the Omo River in a hollowed-out canoe. (Photo by Rod Waddington) Photo used under CC BY

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