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Clean water is trucked into drought-hit areas of rural Ethiopia. Heatwave catastrophes this year foreshadow a future with deadlier, more frequent, and more intense heat-related humanitarian emergencies, the UN and Red Cross warned in a joint report. (Photo by Oxfam East Africa) Photo used under CC BY

Heatwaves to make areas uninhabitable in decades

Heatwaves are predicted to “exceed human physiological and social limits” in the Sahel, the Horn of Africa and parts of Asia, with extreme events triggering “large-scale suffering and loss of life,” the UN and Red Cross said.

AfricaNews

Somalia farmers, families describe struggle as drought deepens

Guardian

Official says Africa has little help in epidemics

Africa must plan to respond effectively to disease outbreaks without international help, a top public health official said, warning that the continent of 1.3 billion people is “on its own."

Associated Press

Ebola survivor seeks help as he leaves hospital

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Chad’s climate disaster leaves millions hungry

Severe drought followed by the worst floods in 30 years have led to rocketing food prices and left 2.1 million people in Chad acutely hungry, according to the UN; 10% of all children under five are affected by severe malnutrition, and one in three will suffer from stunted growth.

Reuters

Impact of Pakistan’s floods to be felt for years

The effects of the floods in Pakistan will be felt for years to come, with the country “on the verge of a public health disaster," the UN secretary general warned, as crops, homes and livelihoods were washed away.

Guardian

Pakistan floods cause damage to infrastructure

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Cholera spreads through Haiti’s prison system

A nonprofit organization called on Haiti’s government to release certain inmates amid a swift rise in cholera cases throughout the country’s severely crowded prison system as clean water supplies dwindle.

Associated Press

Indigenous Guatemalans battle land grabbing

In Guatemala, indigenous women have been rising up to protect their ancestral lands. Land grabbing is the new normal there. People lay claim to land that doesn’t belong to them and get away with it most of the time.

Deutsche Welle

HUMAN RIGHTS

UN flight from Yemen returns 129 migrants

The UN returned 129 Ethiopian migrants stranded in war-torn Yemen to their homeland in its first humanitarian repatriation flight to depart from the rebel-held capital of Sanaa.

Associated Press

Iran students, workers defy protest crackdown

Iranian protesters remained defiant with students staging sit-ins and some industrial workers going on strike despite a crackdown that activists say left dozens dead and hundreds more imprisoned.

i24 News

Iranian journalist who broke news on Mahsa Amini pays heavy price

Reuters

Pakistan activists sound alarm over hate crimes

Activists and members of minority communities say Pakistan’s culture of impunity, along with state inaction, is fueling the rise of hate crimes and blasphemy accusations.

Deutsche Welle

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Dissident Kurds seek US support amid unrest

The head of an Iranian Kurdish dissident group has sought the support of the United States for Iranian resistance movements, as the Islamic Republic they oppose pounds rival positions in northern Iraq and contends with unrest.

Newsweek

Somalia warns media not to publish propaganda

Somalia’s government announced a crackdown on media that publish propaganda for the Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab and warned offenders would be punished.

i24 News

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Finding aliens could trigger global conflict

The discovery of alien civilizations might have disastrous effects on Earth, but as a result of geopolitical conflict rather than an interstellar war. However, these fears are unfounded.

Newsweek

Artificial intelligence may soon diagnose illness

Voices offer lots of information. Turns out, they can even help diagnose an illness — and researchers are working on an app for that.

NPR

GLOBAL HEALTH

Cholera outbreaks seen in Lebanon and Syria

Healthcare systems in Syria and Lebanon could buckle under the pressure of an outbreak of cholera, rights groups have warned, after the United Nations said they have now logged more than 13,000 suspected cases in recent weeks.

The Independent

Malawi faces surge in youths with mental illness

There is a “vicious cycle of poverty and mental health problems“ for young Malawians, as there is a lack of ”youth-friendly" mental health services in the country.

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Pakistani girl, 17, defied odds to play football

Marvi Baig, a 17-year-old girl from a small Himalayan village, has broken all gender and cultural barriers to achieve her dreams and become a football player.

Deutsche Welle

App lets Kenyans become conservationists

The National Museums of Kenya has launched an app to help the country’s wildlife authorities track and log rare and common mammals and record whether the species and their habitat are thriving.

AfricaNews

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Lagos Food Bank provides needy with food

Nigeria is grappling with rising food prices that’s affecting the living standards of people. Various groups have come up with initiatives to help indigent families.

AfricaNews

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Shocks undo efforts to end hunger in Africa

Decades of work to reduce hunger in Africa are being reversed as the continent struggles to cope with conflict, climate crisis and the global economic downturn, the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization has warned.

Guardian

Tunisia’s crisis deepens amid food shortages

Tunisians have been hit with soaring food prices and shortages of basic staples, threatening to turn simmering discontent in the North African country — the cradle of the Arab Spring protests — into larger turmoil.

Associated Press

Long petrol queues in Tunisia stir anger

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Venezuela landslide death toll rises to 34

A landslide in Venezuela, which was triggered by flooding after heavy rains caused streams to overflow, killed 34 people, buried more than 300 homes and affected around another 750.

AfricaNews

Landslide sweeps through Venezuela town, after days of heavy rain

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Floods submerging whole houses in Nigeria

Seventy-six people have died as their boat capsized while they tried to flee dangerously high floodwaters that have inundated swathes of southern Nigeria.

CNN

Blockaded by Israel, Gaza turns to solar panels

Blockaded by Israel since 2007, the Gaza Strip only has electricity for 12 hours per day on average - less when the conflict escalates.

Euronews

Ghana slams West over low funding for climate

Ghana’s president has criticized Western nations for their low financial commitment to addressing issues caused by climate change on the continent.

Al Jazeera

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Ghanaian women participate in a study that seeks to understand the realities of farming in the country with a gender-based perspective. (Photo by Taylor Spicer (CCAFS)) Photo used under CC BY

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