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A young Sudanese child suffering from malnutrition stands in the middle of a camp. About 9 million people in Sudan are currently in need of aid, a number that could double by September as a result of poor harvests, economic crisis, internal conflict and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the UN has warned. (Photo by Filipe Moreira) Photo used under CC BY

18 million Sudanese could soon face extreme hunger

The U.N. has warned that up to 18 million people in Sudan could be in need of aid by September as food prices soar due to conflict, poor harvests and the economic crisis.

Guardian

Sudanese demonstrator killed as protests decry economic conditions

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Ethiopia declares truce to allow aid into Tigray

Ethiopia’s government has declared “an indefinite humanitarian truce effective immediately,” saying it hoped to help hasten delivery of emergency aid into Tigray.

Al Jazeera

Ukraine war could lead to food riots in poor countries

Rocketing global food prices as a result of the war in Ukraine could trigger riots from those going hungry in poor countries, the head of the World Trade Organization has said.

Guardian

Taliban recloses schools for older Afghan girls

Just hours after schools were due to open, the Taliban ordered them to shut down again. Teenage Afghan girls have now been denied their right to an education for 187 days.

CNN

Myanmar military deliberately killed civilians

Myanmar’s military and police deliberately killed civilians opposed to its rule in the six months following the coup in February 2021, in a policy that amounts to crimes against humanity, according to new research published this week.

Al Jazeera

Ukraine says Moscow forcibly taking civilians

Ukraine accused Moscow of forcibly taking thousands of civilians from the port city of Mariupol to Russia so that they can be used as “hostages” to pressure Kyiv to give up.

ABC News

Images of death, survival in Ukraine war

Associated Press

HUMAN RIGHTS

Afghan girls return to school in hope and fear

This week could be incredibly important for girls in Afghanistan. The Taliban ban on their secondary school education is due to be lifted.

BBC

Poland fights to give Ukrainian kids education

About 2 million Ukrainians have fled to Poland, nearly half of them children. The government is promising to get every Ukrainian child into a school or kindergarten, but the strain on Poland’s education system is enormous.

Deutsche Welle

Ukraine’s child refugees a huge challenge for host countries

Associated Press

Poland’s open-door policy helps Ukrainian refugees build new lives

Deutsche Welle

LGBTQ+ Ukrainians fight for country, rights

Despite historic homophobia in Ukraine, many LGBTQ+ Ukrainians have enlisted to defend their country and fight for their rights following Russia’s invasion.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Zimbabwe teachers’ union fight for fair wages

In Zimbabwe, some teachers joke that they have to take the maxim ‘a teacher’s reward is in heaven’ literally. But economic woes mean they are now tackling the government for more wages on Earth.

Al Jazeera

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Uganda army denies president’s son resigned

Uganda’s military has said that President Yoweri Museveni’s son, a lieutenant general, who is widely believed to be trying to succeed his long-ruling father, had not, in fact, resigned.

Al Jazeera

Puerto Rico exits bankruptcy after negotiation

Puerto Rico’s government formally exited bankruptcy this week, completing the largest public debt restructuring in U.S. history after announcing nearly seven years ago that it was unable to pay its more than $70 billion debt.

Associated Press

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

China’s censorship, claim of impartiality clash

Since the start of the Russia and Ukraine conflict, China has portrayed itself as a neutral actor. But domestic coverage of the crisis and measures to control the discussion paint a different picture of where Beijing stands.

Deutsche Welle

Internet woes shatter young Yemenis’ dreams

Blighted by years of war and economic crisis, Yemen’s slow and expensive internet means the country’s young are missing out on opportunities to study and work.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

China creates anti-satellite microwave weapon

In a space shot across America’s bow, Chinese scientists have reportedly developed an ultra-high powered microwave device that can potentially jam satellite communications or damage sensitive satellite electronics.

Asia Times Online

How Kremlin accounts manipulate Twitter

The Russian government has a huge network of official Twitter accounts. They range from accounts that represent foreign missions or embassies, with a few thousand followers, to those with more than a million followers.

BBC

Ukraine offered tool to search billions of faces

A system that searches a database of billions of facial images could help Ukraine uncover Russian infiltrators, fight misinformation and identify the dead, a company has said.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

GLOBAL HEALTH

Children among the wounded from Putin’s war

Survivors from the bombardment of Mariupol have received treatment in the nearby city of Zaporizhzhia where some of the youngest victims of the war are bearing the physical and mental scars of the conflict.

BBC

Hong Kong’s COVID-19 infections exceed 1M

Hong Kong’s cumulative COVID infections have exceeded 1 million as the city grapples with a widespread outbreak that has killed more people than the reported COVID deaths in all of mainland China.

Associated Press

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Anish Esteves):

Key takeaways from India’s state elections

Asia Times Online

Column (Sahar Ghumkhor and Anila Daulatzai):

It is hardly surprising Empire stole Afghan money

Al Jazeera

Column (Azadeh Moaveni and Chitra Nagarajan):

Another deeply gendered war is being waged in Ukraine

Al Jazeera

Site edited by: Jameson O'Neal, Rachel Barrus, Ashley Nawn, Matthew Leonard and Catherine Lux.

GOOD NEWS

Harvard teens create site for Ukraine refugees

Avi Schiffmann and Marco Burstein launched Ukraine Take Shelter, where refugees from the war can immediately find hosts with accommodations of all sorts.

People

Boy lives out dream to photograph animals

Thanks to Make-A-Wish, one boy is living his dream to be a naturalist and photograph wildlife. He is currently in remission.

Good Morning America

101-year-old receives his high school diploma

While Merrill Cooper had completed his coursework, his mother could not afford to buy the document. In a surprise ceremony in Jersey City, Cooper was finally given the diploma he worked so hard to earn.

Good Morning America

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

How aid organizations responding to Ukraine

Aid groups are working to address the massive humanitarian crisis -- inside Ukraine, along the country’s borders and in places of refuge far beyond.

CNN

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Ukraine war causes Yemen shortages, famine

Russia’s war on Ukraine has sent wheat prices soaring. U.N. agencies have cut food aid. As famine looms, Yemeni parents face the worst choice: save one sick child or feed another.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Lebanon fears food crisis as Ukraine war continues

Deutsche Welle

6.5M people displaced inside Ukraine, says UN

The U.N. migration agency said this week that nearly 6.5 million people have been displaced inside Ukraine. That means around a quarter of Ukraine’s 44 million people have been forced from their homes.

Associated Press

Russian-Ukraine war pulverizing India’s rupee

The Indian rupee has been under severe downward pressure ever since Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine. The currency has since lost to the U.S. dollar, touching a record low of 76.96 against the dollar.

Asia Times Online

ENVIRONMENT

Increase in wildfires linked to Arctic melting

The dense plumes of wildfire smoke seen in recent years are contributing to the warming of the Arctic, say scientists.

BBC

Great Barrier Reef suffering coral bleaching

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is suffering widespread and severe coral bleaching due to high ocean temperatures two years after a mass bleaching event.

NBCNews.com

Urban mining empties Brazil neighborhoods

Since 2020, the communities have hollowed out as tens of thousands of residents accepted payouts from petrochemical company Braskem to relocate.

Associated Press

Photo of the Day

Homes in Kyiv, Ukraine, were damaged in a bombing by Russian forces on March 18. Preliminary reports say one was killed and at least 19 were injured. (Photo by State Emergency Service of Ukraine) Photo used under CC BY

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