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Northern Nigerian hunger at highest level in 10 years

More than 17 million people across northern Nigeria face severe hunger, the U.N. food agency said, warning that violence and funding ‌cuts are driving food insecurity to its worst level in nearly a decade.

Reuters

At least 35M Nigerians could face hunger crisis

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Cuban healthcare at risk amid energy shortages

Cuba’s once-vaunted system of free universal healthcare has deteriorated sharply. The crisis has been compounded by fuel shortages attributed to tightened U.S. sanctions on the island’s energy sector.

Associated Press

As Cuba’s power crisis deepens, Havana’s residents speak out

France 24

African women held for years in Indian centers

Rounded up in raids and with no access to lawyers, 22 African women including trafficking victims and refugees speak of filthy conditions and beatings while stuck in legal limbo in India’s immigration detention centers.

Guardian

Tortured, humiliated and killed: the women who disappear into Myanmar’s prisons

Guardian

HUMAN RIGHTS

UN sounds ‘red alert’ over violence in el-Obeid

The U.N. human rights chief sounded a “red alert” about possible atrocity crimes in and near a strategic city in central Sudan, calling on world leaders to do more to help stop the bloodshed in the country’s ongoing war.

Yahoo! News

Some migrants dig in as S. Africa turns hostile

While thousands of immigrants packed up and left South Africa ahead of the June 30 protests, many more feel their best option is to stay, even though the country has turned hostile.

Reuters

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Venezuela’s leader defends quake response

Venezuela’s U.S.-backed acting President Delcy Rodríguez issued a fiery defense of her government’s response to last week’s devastating earthquakes, lashing out at critics who say authorities reacted too slowly.

Associated Press

Hunger, despair as Venezuela quake death toll rises

Al Jazeera

Venezuela’s infrastructure long a disaster waiting to happen

Deutsche Welle

At least 18 killed in northwest Nigeria clashes

At least 18 people have died in clashes between rival communities in Nigeria’s northwestern Niger state ‌in recent days, police said, though locals said the death toll was much higher and hundreds had fled.

Reuters

UN reports peace deal violations in DR Congo

All parties in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s worsening conflict are violating peace terms and committing abuses, U.N. experts said in a report seen by The Associated Press.

Associated Press

Albanian police use teargas against protestors

Albanian police used water cannons and teargas to disperse anti-government protesters in front of parliament who threw eggs and flour at police officers and ‌some lawmakers.

Reuters

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

How cryptocurrencies are changing politics

Despite once dismissing them, Donald Trump made more than $1 billion from cryptocurrency sales last year. But the digital currencies, and their lobbyists, are having an effect on policy and politicians around the world.

Deutsche Welle

Robotic elephants replacing live ones in India

In India’s southern state of Kerala, robotic elephants are replacing live ones at some temple festivals. Rising concerns about elephant abuse and dangerous incidents led to the change.

Associated Press

GLOBAL HEALTH

Gaza patients face agonizing evacuation delay

Gaza’s health ministry says 300 Palestinians have died waiting for medical evacuations since the war began. Thousands of others — the health ministry currently says 15,000 — are still waiting for treatment abroad.

Yahoo! News

Haitians march to demand hospital reopening

Dozens of medical students organized a protest to demand that the government relocate and reopen one of Haiti’s largest public hospitals, noting they need to train there.

Associated Press

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GOOD NEWS

Ebola treatments trial begins in DR Congo

A trial of potential treatments for the strain of virus behind the current deadly Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has begun, the World Health Organization has announced.

Yahoo! News

Adoption helps Serbia’s griffon vultures thrive

Once on the brink of extinction, Serbia’s griffon vultures are making a remarkable comeback thanks to decades of conservation work. One foundation allows citizens to adopt birds and support their protection.

Deutsche Welle

AID, NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Sudan health crisis funding falling far short

Health funding for the humanitarian response in Sudan, the world’s worst crisis, has received only a third of the tens of millions of dollars it needs for this year.

The Independent

After Venezuela quakes, citizens lead rescues

Citizens — often just with shovels, ropes and their bare hands — have been trying to supplement what they describe as a slow and inadequate state response to Venezuela’s ‌strongest tremors in a century.

Yahoo! News

Caracas park helps children cope through activities after twin quakes

Al Jazeera

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Kenya, Rwanda sign fuel deal to boost supply

Kenya and Rwanda signed three pacts on setting up a government framework for Rwanda-bound fuel imports, the Kenya Pipeline ‌Company and Rwanda’s Trade Ministry said in statements on X.

Reuters

Israel withholds billions in Gazan tax revenue

In the occupied West Bank, Israel withholds billions in tax revenues it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority — money that makes up the bulk of the PA’s budget. Salaries go unpaid and basic services break down.

Deutsche Welle

ENVIRONMENT

Floodwaters, oil, health fears in South Sudan

In Bentiu, in northern South Sudan, floodwaters no longer recede. Instead, they consume land and livelihoods.

Deutsche Welle

Pakistan heat puts women, babies in danger

For the inhabitants of Baba Island, which lies just off the coast of Pakistan’s capital and megacity of Karachi, life is becoming tougher every year that passes.

The Independent

Côte d’Ivoire floods kill 59 amid torrential rains

The deaths are the latest in coastal west Africa, which is enduring relentless, deadly rains that authorities predict could intensify in the coming days.

Guardian

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