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UN: Africa’s Sahel region facing severe food crisis

The United Nations voiced concern over a massive food crisis in northern Africa’s Sahel region, exacerbated by the war in Ukraine and with more than five million additional people now facing “severe food insecurity.”

i24 News

‘Dangerous’ Tunisian droughts threaten food security

Reuters

Smaller countries face development challenges

Lower-income countries are being hit hardest in the current economic climate, but small states are particularly devastated and will need the help of the international community to prevent a reversal in development, officials said.

Devex

Interfaith marriage in India threatened by nationalists

Interfaith marriages in India have been a sensitive issue for years, with authorities disrupting weddings between Hindus and Muslims under “anti-conversion” laws. In extreme cases, families have even killed couples for marrying outside their religion.

Deutsche Welle

Afghanistan Taliban harassing women athletes

Afghan women have been intimidated by the Taliban with visits and phone calls warning them not to engage in sports, the athletes say.

Associated Press

Pakistan Taliban’s reign of terror returns to valley

France 24

Political crisis in Haiti deepens as terms expire

Haiti has been stripped of its Senate, an alarming development that solidifies what some call a de facto dictatorship in charge of a country wracked by gang violence.

ABC News

Arms supplied by UK, US kill Yemeni civilians

Weapons supplied by the United Kingdom and the U.S. to a Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen killed at least 87 civilians and wounded 136 others in just over a year, a report says.

Associated Press

HUMAN RIGHTS

Pakistan sends back refugees to face Taliban

About 250,000 Afghan asylum seekers have arrived in Pakistan since August 2021, but a migrant crackdown has left many of them in fear of being jailed or deported.

Guardian

Litany of crises in 2022 but also good signs

A “litany of human rights crises” emerged in 2022, but the year also presented new opportunities to strengthen protections against violations, Human Rights Watch said in its annual world report.

Associated Press

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

UN: Iran weaponizes death penalty for fear

The UN human rights chief has accused Iran of weaponizing the death penalty to frighten the public and crush dissent. The statement follows the execution of four protesters.

France 24

Iran protesters fight death penalty as executions await

Deutsche Welle

Executions aren’t new in Iran, but this time they’re different

CNN

Jailed activist Sepideh Qolian describes brutality in letter

BBC

Martyrdom-seeker carried out suicide bombing

A local arm of the ISIS militant group has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing near Afghanistan’s foreign ministry in the capital that has killed at least 20 people and injured dozens more.

The Independent

At least 20 dead in suicide blast in Afghanistan

i24 News

Peru anti-government protests are spreading

Protests against Peruvian President Dina Boluarte’s government that have left 48 people dead since they began a month ago spread through the south of the Andean country with new clashes in the tourist city of Cusco.

Associated Press

Peru protests: What is behind the violence?

Reuters

Tigray forces hand over weapons in peace move

Tigrayan forces in northern Ethiopia have started handing over heavy weapons in line with a peace deal to end a brutal civil war.

BBC

Joy, grief as Tigray reconnects to the world

Guardian

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Russia to send rocket to rescue crew on ISS

Russia said it would send a rescue capsule to bring home two Russian cosmonauts and a U.S. astronaut from the International Space Station after a meteorite damaged their spacecraft that was supposed to return them.

i24 News

Migrants take to social media to highlight treks

Migrants from Latin and South America, who have traveled through dangerous conditions to make it to the U.S., have had a powerful new tool to tell their stories to the entire world in the last couple of years.

ABC News

GLOBAL HEALTH

India’s cervical cancer vaccine to help women

Indian scientists have developed a more accessible, low-cost vaccine targeting HPV, the main cause of cervical cancer. Health officials hope to reduce what has become the second-most common cancer in India.

Deutsche Welle

Deadly cholera outbreak kills 750 in Malawi

The worst cholera outbreak to affect Malawi in two decades has now claimed 750 lives, a government minister said, while the WHO chief described the southeast African country as among the hardest-hit.

Associated Press

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GOOD NEWS

Benin Voodoo festival draws Afro-descendants

Every year in Benin, locals celebrate a festival in tribute to the deities of Voodoo. Increasingly, the festival is drawing people of African descent seeking to discover the religion and land of their ancestors.

Al Jazeera

Fish farm rehabilitates lake in Rwanda

An initiative to repopulate depleted waters in Rwanda is teaching villagers sustainable agriculture and providing jobs.

Guardian

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Taliban ban on women workers hits vital aid

The Afghan Taliban’s ban on women working in NGOs forced a widespread shutdown of many aid operations in the country, as they cannot and would not work without their female staff.

Associated Press

Humanitarian workers go on trial in Greece

Twenty-four humanitarian aid workers who say they were trying to save lives of migrants crossing the Mediterranean are on trial in Greece. The activists were trying to identify migrant boats in distress.

Deutsche Welle

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Bolivia farm hub uses cattle, grain as leverage

Protests against Bolivia’s central government have seen buildings and cars burned, while blockades have prevented transport of food and grains from the key producing region.

Reuters

Burundi refugees decry reduced food rations

The refugees accuse Rwanda’s government and the UNHCR of starving them to force them to return home. The UN has rejected the accusation, saying it is doing its best to provide aid during difficult economic times.

Deutsche Welle

Malaysia could stop palm oil exports to EU

Malaysia said it could stop exporting palm oil to the European Union in response to a new EU law aimed at protecting forests by strictly regulating sale of the product.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

India demolishing buildings in sinking town

India began demolishing unsafe buildings in a northern Himalayan town where hundreds of structures have developed cracks following an apparent sinking of land, a senior district official said.

Reuters

Why an Indian Himalayan town is sinking

Quartz

UAE names oil chief to lead COP28 talks

The head of one of the world’s biggest oil companies has been named to lead the COP28 global climate talks in Dubai later this year. Campaigners say he must stand down from his oil business role while president.

BBC

2022 ocean temperatures highest on record

The world’s oceans, which have absorbed most of the excess heat caused by humanity’s carbon pollution, continued to see record-breaking temperatures last year.

France 24

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An 8-month-old boy suffering from dehydration is carried through floodwaters as his family struggles to make their way home in Pakistan. (Photo by Colin Crowley) Photo used under CC BY

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