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A woman scoops water from a dry riverbed in northern Kenya. With no access to clean water, she resorts to collecting unfiltered water for her family in containers. More than 8.5 million people, including 4.2 million children, are facing dire water shortages across the Horn of Africa, according to UNICEF; Water scarcity is killing livestock, drying up crops and driving families from their homes. (Photo by Marisol Grandon/Department for International Development) Photo used under CC BY

Horn of Africa to suffer fifth failed rainy season

The Horn of Africa, where the risk of famine is growing due to a historic drought, is bracing itself for a fifth consecutive failed rainy season, the UN said. Humanitarian organizations have multiplied their warnings about the deterioration of the situation in the region.

AfricaNews

Niger makes artificial rain to curb drought

AfricaNews

Murder, mafias, illegal mining surge in Peru

As gold prices have surged in Peru so has illegal mining, as criminal gangs have taken advantage of lax law enforcement, unemployment and rising poverty.

Guardian

Climate change driving water shortages in Asia

The Tibetan Plateau, also known as the “Water Tower” of Asia, supplies freshwater to nearly two billion people. The region could see a near-total freshwater storage collapse by 2050, a new study reveals.

Deutsche Welle

Rohingya persecution rooted in colonialism

Myanmar is mostly Buddhist but also includes more than 100 minority ethnic groups. Yet the government refuses to recognize their citizenship, as many arrived as laborers from India and Bangladesh during British rule.

Al Jazeera

Rohingya crisis exposes India’s ambivalent refugee policy

Deutsche Welle

Gazans burning plastics to make cheap diesel

Living in one of the poorest parts of the Middle East and facing some of the region’s highest fuel costs, Gazans are burning plastic to make affordable diesel, posing serious environmental and health risks, experts say.

i24 news

Airstrike hits kindergarten in Ethiopia’s Tigray

An airstrike by the Ethiopia’s air force hit a kindergarten, causing deaths and injuries, a broadcaster in the Tigray region reported.

Associated Press

Four killed, including two children, in Tigray airstrike

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HUMAN RIGHTS

Rohingya desperate to leave Bangladesh camps

Myanmar Rohingya Muslims protested across refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh on the fifth anniversary of clashes between Rohingya insurgents and Myanmar security forces that drove Rohingya from their homes.

Reuters

A million Rohingya reside in Bangladesh, few feel at home

Deutsche Welle

Special section:

Rohingya exodus explained in maps and charts

Al Jazeera

UN under great pressure over Xinjiang report

The United Nations human rights chief has admitted to “tremendous pressure” over a long-delayed report on China’s Xinjiang region, where Beijing stands accused of detaining more than one million Muslim minorities.

Al Jazeera

China spreads Xinjiang disinformation on ‘global scale’

Newsweek

After rescue, migrants wait to dock in Europe

A Spanish charity rescued 101 Egyptian migrants in a rickety wooden boat off the Tunisian coast. Now they are await an update on their future off the coast of Sicily.

Yahoo! News

25K asylum-seekers being kept out of Greece

Greek authorities have prevented some 25,000 people from entering the country illegally in less than a month, a government official, accusing neighbor and regional rival Turkey of channeling asylum-seekers toward Greece.

ABC News

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Fighting shatters lull in Ethiopia’s Tigray region

Ethiopia’s military has launched a “large-scale” offensive for the first time in a year in the country’s northern Tigray region, Tigray authorities alleged, while the government countered that Tigray forces attacked first.

Associated Press

Russian offensive slowing due to fatigue

Ukraine‘s top military intelligence official said on Wednesday that Russia’s military offensive was slowing because of moral and physical fatigue in their ranks and Moscow’s “exhausted” resource base.

Yahoo! News

US airstrikes hit Iran-backed militia in Syria

The United States carried out airstrikes in eastern Syria, targeting facilities used by Iranian-backed militias, a U.S. military spokesman said.

CBS News

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

NASA to deliberately crash craft into asteroid

NASA will test technology to defend Earth against future asteroids and comets by deliberately crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid — which poses no threat to Earth — at some 15,000 mph.

CBS News

A high-tech bid to save an iconic species

Campaigners are using AI so as to identify and track where illegally traded tiger pelts come from, allowing law enforcement agencies to shut down wildlife traffickers.

CBS News

Ancient sea monster discovered next to victims

A brand new species of enormous sea creature from the Cretaceous era has been discovered in Morocco, lying fossilized next to remains of its last supper.

Newsweek

GLOBAL HEALTH

New mysterious influenza virus spreads in India

The surgence of a new influenza called tomato flu — because of the formation of red blisters that later come to resemble tomatoes — has led to India’s government issuing an advisory to all states.

The Independent

South Korea records world’s lowest fertility rate

South Korea has again recorded the world’s lowest fertility rate with the number sinking to a new low since 2018, according to figures released by the government.

BBC

Burkina Faso launches pharmaceutical plant

Burkina Faso has built its first pharmaceutical production plant, specializing in the production of generic drugs, which was visited by Prime Minister Albert Ouédraogo.

AfricaNews

23K Ghanaians test positive for HIV in 2022

A total of 23,495 people in Ghana tested positive for HIV in the first half of this year, the Program Manager of the National STIs and HIV/AIDS Control Program said, attributing the figures to complacency.

AfricaNews

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GOOD NEWS

Berlin to start repatriating looted art to Nigeria

The body overseeing Berlin’s public museums said it will begin repatriating hundreds of Benin Bronzes this year, after finalizing an agreement with Nigeria on the return of the objects that were stolen during colonial times.

Associated Press

Benin unveils artworks to revive cultural pride

Benin is transcribing its history through artistic works. Behind these monuments is the poignant story of personalities who have marked the Beninese hegemony through their work as builders.

AfricaNews

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Afghanis open library to support women

Afghan women’s rights activists opened a library, aiming to provide a public space for women who have been excluded from public life since the Taliban’s takeover.

i24 News

Egyptian NGOs shut out of climate summit

A group of Egyptian civil society organizations have been prevented from attending the Cop27 climate summit by a covert registration process that filtered out groups critical of the Egyptian government.

Guardian

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Haitians protest over insecurity, rising costs

A few thousand people have taken to the streets across Haiti, demanding that Prime Minister Ariel Henry step down and calling for a better quality of life in the Caribbean nation.

Al Jazeera

Despite reforms, Cuban farmers still struggle

Cuba’s communist government approved a package of 63 reforms to help producers get food to consumers, but none of those efforts have yet been able to solve the island’s chronic agricultural woes.

Associated Press

Oil money floods to Guyana, but future murky

Ever since Exxon Mobil found vast deposits of oil off Guyana‘s coastline in 2015, government leaders have pledged that black gold would transform the fortunes of one of South America’s poorest countries.

Reuters

IMF team in Sri Lanka to finalize bailout funds

Officials from the International Monetary Fund reached Sri Lanka ahead of the talks with the economic crisis-ridden country to hammer out details of the bailout package from mounting international debt.

The Independent

Pakistan appeals for global aid after floods

Pakistan has urged the international community to help with relief efforts as it struggles to cope with the aftermath of torrential rains that triggered massive floods last month.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Flooding in Philippines dampens school return

For many Filipino students, it was their first face-to-face lesson after more than two years of COVID-induced home schooling, but schools were closed again after only two days, due to flooding by tropical storm Ma-on.

Deutsche Welle

Tropical Storm Ma-on makes landfall in southern China

ABC News

Chinese province to ban sale of gasoline cars

Hainan island in the South China Sea says it will become China’s first region to ban sales of gasoline- and diesel-powered cars to curb climate-changing carbon emissions.

ABC News

China issues alert as drought threatens crops

A drought in China is threatening food production, prompting the government to order local authorities to take all available measures to ensure crops survive the hottest summer on record.

Guardian

Peru to sue Spanish firm for $4.5B over oil spill

Peru’s consumer protection agency is suing Spanish oil firm Repsol over a huge oil spill which blackened beaches off the coast of Lima in January.

BBC

Photo of the Day

A girl clings to a man’s clothing during humanitarian relief efforts after a flood in Pakistan, where monsoon rains have affected more than 30 million people in recent weeks, according to the country’s climate change minister; 903 people, including 326 children, have died in rain-related incidents. (Photo by 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit Public Affairs) Photo used under CC BY

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