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An Afghan special forces soldier explains how opium is made to General David Patraeus during the war in Afghanistan. The total value of Afghanistan‘s opiates production in 2021 was $1.8-$2.7 billion, up to 14% of the country’s GDP, exceeding the value of its legal exports, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes said in its most recent report. (Photo by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Lorie Jewell) Photo used under CC BY

Despair and poverty fuel drug use in Afghanistan

Drug addiction has long been a problem in Afghanistan, the world’s biggest producer of opium and heroin, as well as a major source for meth. The ranks of the addicted have been fueled by persistent poverty and decades of war, leaving few families unscarred.

Associated Press

Afghani man wants country to swap opium for hemp

Guardian

Trouble brewing in Sri Lanka’s tea industry

With Sri Lanka in the throes of its worst economic crisis in decades, its prosperous tea industry has taken a hit, with exports dropping drastically, according to industry insiders.

Deutsche Welle

Illicit drug crisis growing silently in African states

Many young Africans are turning to illicit drug use, the World Health Organization warned, as the COVID-19 pandemic, unemployment, and high cost of living have created “a perfect storm” on the entire continent.

Deutsche Welle

East Africa bloc says 50M face food insecurity

Over 50 million people in East Africa will face acute food insecurity, a regional bloc said, warning that Somalia and South Sudan will be under full-blown famine conditions.

Associated Press

DR Congo struggles to halt charcoal trade

Preserving the rainforest of the Congo River basin is key in the fight against global heating, but the DRC has struggled to stop deforestation, Global Forest Watch reported, with charcoal production as the main reason.

Guardian

What’s causing deforestation in Africa and how to stop it

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Brazil authorities do little to stop deforestation

Environmental criminals in the Brazilian Amazon are responsible for the massive destruction of public forests, but the nation’s federal police have done little to prevent this ecological damage, a new study has found.

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

ICJ to rule on Myanmar objections to genocide

The International Court of Justice will rule on Myanmar’s preliminary objections to a genocide case brought over the military’s brutal 2017 crackdown on the mostly Muslim Rohingya.

Al Jazeera

Myanmar’s soldiers admit atrocities

YouTube

UN highlights rights violations in Afghanistan

The ruling Taliban are responsible for extrajudicial killings, torture, arbitrary arrests and inhumane punishments in the 10 months since they seized power, the UN mission in Afghanistan said in a report.

Reuters

Sri Lanka’s military apprehends protest leaders

Sri Lanka’s military has taken control of the presidential secretariat in the capital, in what protesters describe as a brutal assault; then security forces moved to an adjacent protest site and arrested protest leaders.

Al Jazeera

Fewer women wearing the hijab in North Africa

North Africa has seen powerful Islamist movements that reshaped society, but their influence is beginning to wane, observers say, as the past few years has seen a steady decline in women wearing the hijab.

BBC

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Tunisia to vote on president’s new constitution

Tunisians will get the opportunity to vote on their new constitution, which has been criticized as undemocratic, as it strengthens the executive branch and weakens institutions that would provide a balance of powers.

Deutsche Welle

Dozens of Malawians arrested in protests

Police in Malawi’s capital have arrested 75 people, including human rights campaigners, during a clampdown on protests against “selective justice” by the country’s judiciary.

Al Jazeera

Chinese man charged with child trafficking in Malawi

CNN

Iraq accuses Turkey of deadly Kurdistan attack

A diplomatic row has erupted between Iraq and Turkey after nine civilians were killed when artillery shells hit a park in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Local officials blamed Turkish forces.

BBC

Central American officials added to US blacklist

The U.S. State Department added current and former officials, lawmakers, judges and business people from Central America to a list that names those it considers to be “corrupt and undemocratic” actors in the region.

Reuters

El Salvador extends state of exception in gang crackdown

ABC News

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

New telescope detects dead suns colliding

Astronomers can now detect the collision of dead suns, also known as neutron stars, with a powerful new telescope, aiding our understanding of the universe.

BBC

Mars meteorite upsets planet formation theory

An old meteorite contradicts current thinking about how rocky planets like the Earth and Mars acquire volatile elements such as hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and noble gases as they form, according to a new study.

ScienceDaily

GLOBAL HEALTH

Global vaccinations decline; health crisis looms

Experts are warning of a “child health crisis” as new research reveals that tens of millions of children are vulnerable to preventable diseases as immunization rates have continued to fall since COVID-19, according to UN figures.

Guardian

African states to apply for malaria shot support

Nine months after the world’s first malaria vaccine was recommended for use, the international vaccine alliance, Gavi, invited countries to apply for financial support to roll out the jab, mostly targeting children in Africa.

Reuters

Indonesia court says no to medicinal marijuana

Indonesia‘s Constitutional Court rejected a judicial review of the country’s narcotics law, which would have paved the way for legalizing marijuana for medicinal use.

FOX News

WHO deliberates monkeypox as global crisis

As the WHO considered whether to declare monkeypox a global crisis for a second time, some scientists say the differences between outbreaks in Africa and developed countries complicate any coordinated response.

Associated Press

Monkeypox keeps spreading; authorities try to stop it

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

Afghan refugees turn barren soil into farmland

Afghan refugees living in Pakistan are securing their livelihoods through cultivating once barren land, an Afghani farmer says.

The Independent

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Nonprofit helping deaf Ukrainian refugees

The challenges of life in a war-torn country are multi-faceted for the deaf or hard of hearing, as life-saving communication is often difficult. Off-The-Grid Missions is a nonprofit helping deaf and hard of hearing people in Ukraine.

NBCNews.com

People with disabilities ride therapeutic horses

GallopNYC, a nonprofit in New York, is providing therapeutic horseback rides to individuals with disabilities.

CBS News

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

USAID pledges $255M to fight Kenyan drought

The U.S. development agency, USAID, said it would give Kenya $255 million in emergency assistance to tackle severe drought.

Reuters

Syria’s poor wheat crop adds to food worries

It has been a bad year for farmers in northeastern Syria, where a disappointing wheat harvest looks set to deal another blow to food supplies in a country grappling with climate change and war.

Reuters

World Bank to fund $100M in food aid to Sudan

The World Bank has agreed to provide the UN’s World Food Program with $100 million for an “emergency safety net project” to address food insecurity in Sudan.

Reuters

Russian firm building Egypt’s first nuke plant

The Russian state atomic energy corporation, Rosatom, has begun construction of Egypt’s first nuclear power plant, according to a joint statement from Rosatom and Cairo.

Deutsche Welle

ENVIRONMENT

Climate crisis pressuring Senegal’s herders

Pastoralism in Senegal has changed drastically over recent decades; herders have been forced to change their routes as more land is used for agriculture, creating uncertainty for the future of pastoralism as a livelihood.

Guardian

Wild cheetahs reintroduced to India’s forests

Cheetahs are to return to India’s forests for the first time in more than 70 years, officials have announced, in an effort to reintroduce the animal to their natural habitat.

Guardian

Monarch butterflies on endangered ‘red list’

The migratory monarch butterfly has been put on a list of endangered species amid fast-dwindling numbers, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature said.

Al Jazeera

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A girl stares past a barbed wired fence at a camp for ethnic Rohingya in the Rakhine state of Mynanmar. A United Nations investigation found that Myanmar’s crackdown against the Rohingya people had been carried out with “genocidal intent." The UN mission’s chairman said the victim accounts were among “the most shocking human rights violations” he had come across and would “leave a mark on all of us for the rest of our lives”. (Photo by DYKT Mohigan) Photo used under CC BY

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