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Nigeria’s child mortality increasing amid aid cuts

The field chief for the U.N.’s agency for children in Nigeria says ensuring infants reach their 5th birthday is a “top priority” — as organizations warn of an unprecedented reversal in progress on child mortality due to aid cuts.

The Independent

US cut Nepal climate aid before devastating floods

A major U.S. aid program to Nepal that monitored climate risks including glacier collapses — an event that led to the ongoing flooding disaster in the country — was ended in January 2025.

The Independent

How China buried Tibet flood images

Deutsche Welle

Disasters like Nepal floods becoming more frequent

Associated Press

Nepal flood survivors return to ruins of homes

Along Nepal’s Trishuli River, rescue teams continue to search through dangerous debris as survivors return to devastated communities and look for missing loved ones.

Deutsche Welle

Hope of finding flood survivors is decreasing

Channel NewsAsia

HUMAN RIGHTS

Palestinians in fear as Israel attacks mosques

Palestinian witnesses recount the coordinated Israeli army and settler attacks on mosques in the occupied West Bank.

Al Jazeera

In a detention center where scam workers wait

Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ordered a ban in July 2024 on all scam operations. Initial raids saw large numbers of workers rescued, but the criminal outfits then splintered into smaller operations.

Associated Press

Nigerian kidnappers collected $5M in ransom

Kidnappers in Nigeria collected more than $5 million in ransom payments over the last year, a Lagos-based intelligence group said as the country faces a multifaceted security crisis.

Associated Press

Nigeria launches rescue after mass kidnapping

Reuters

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Guinea-Bissau vote approves new constitution

Voters in Guinea-Bissau have approved a new constitution that significantly expands presidential powers ahead of a general election later this year.

BBC

Guinea-Bissau approves new constitution: What it means for democracy and presidential power

Channel Africa

Tunisia activists decry civil society crackdown

Five years into Tunisian President Kais Saied’s increasingly authoritarian rule, rights groups warn that the country’s once vibrant civil society is being silenced.

Deutsche Welle

How war has divided Iranians in the diaspora

Many Iranians in the diaspora remain caught in the paradox of opposing the war and the government in Tehran.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

New dinosaurs in Africa could be tip of iceberg

A research team in Zimbabwe waded through waters teeming with hippos and crocodiles to uncover a new dinosaur, Musango matusadonaensis.

CNN

Tech giants urge global response to AI threats

Concerns have emerged over the state of the world’s cybersecurity after artificial intelligence models escaped test environments and breached multiple organizations.

Deutsche Welle

GLOBAL HEALTH

Schools reopen in DR Congo’s Ebola epicenter

A new academic year began across the Democratic Republic of the Congo despite concerns by parents and teachers that the ongoing Ebola outbreak poses risks to children in the epicenter.

Associated Press

Half of farmers poisoned by pesticides yearly

Using publicly available data from 2006-2023, a study found there to be an estimated 402 million to 433 million cases of unintentional acute pesticide poisoning of farmers and farm workers every year.

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

South African town cleans up its polluted river

All it took to turn heavily polluted waters of South Africa’s Stiebeuel River into a resource clean enough for irrigating a community’s vegetable plots was a collection of stones, heat-treated wood and sand.

Guardian

Palestinian potters preserve 400-year tradition

Palestinian potters in the Israeli-occupied West Bank use generations-old skills to make clay wares sold across the territory. Despite rising costs, cheap imports and falling sales, one family is preserving a 400-year tradition.

Associated Press

AID, NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Sweden ends aid to Liberia in blow to women

Sexual and reproductive services face an uncertain future as Liberia’s second-largest donor, Sweden, halts support worth hundreds of millions of pounds.

Guardian

UN: Vulnerable kids are ‘falling through cracks’

Data from UNICEF U.K. suggests climate risks faced by children are being overlooked by U.K. aid — as the U.N. agency prepares to launch a major campaign calling for children to be better prioritized by the Foreign Office.

Al Jazeera

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Dates provide lifeline for poor Yemen farmers

Hindered by poor infrastructure and climate challenges, farmers in Yemen cling to traditional methods to harvest dates.

Al Jazeera

Botswana at risk as diamond demand drops

A downturn in Botswana’s once dynamic diamond industry is dimming economic prospects for young people. Can they adapt?

Deutsche Welle

ENVIRONMENT

Orangutans in danger as Borneo fires blaze

Indonesia wildfires have destroyed part of the habitat of hundreds of orangutans and are risking the survival of the species.

BBC

Satellite images show scale of raging Borneo wildfires

The Independent

India warns of ‘unusual’ fish after Nepal floods

Authorities in the north Indian state of Bihar have warned residents not to buy, sell or eat unfamiliar fish appearing in local rivers. State authorities say fish may have come into contact with corpses.

The Independent

Fighting to bring back vanishing Burundi lakes

Ecologists in Kirundo, Burundi, are racing to restore disappearing lakes that thousands depend on. Reforestation and community efforts are bringing back water and fish. But one threat remains.

Deutsche Welle

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Farmers cool down under a water jet, after laboring in the fields of India. (Photo by David Baxendale) Photo used under CC BY

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