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A young child in South Sudan. Three faith-based charities are calling on the UK government to restore the 59% cut in the aid budget to South Sudan, and invest in peace building, conflict management and reconciliation. (Photo by Rod Waddington) Photo used under CC BY

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Charities urge UK to help poor as well as Ukraine

The British government’s financial support for Ukraine must not be at the cost of aid to other areas of the world in crisis, three faith-based charities have warned, on the eve of a pilgrimage to South Sudan with Pope Francis.

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Guardian

Ukraine prisoners of war tortured, soldier says

A senior Russian lieutenant who fled after serving in Ukraine has described how his country’s troops tortured prisoners of war and threatened some with rape.

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Guardian

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Former Russian officer: ‘I apologize to the whole Ukrainian nation’

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BBC

UN urges counterterrorism to skirt Nigerian genocide

The UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide voiced concern over the worsening security situation in Nigeria, while urging the authorities to ensure counter-terrorism operations are conducted.

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UN News

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Nigerian communities file damages claim against Shell

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Al Jazeera

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Fuel, cash shortages infuriate Nigerian voters

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Al Jazeera

Military places Myanmar under martial law

Martial law was declared in several areas of military-run Myanmar, a day after authorities announced a state of emergency.

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Associated Press

Old conflicts flare as Ethiopia bids for peace

A newly flared conflict between Ethiopia’s Oromo and Amhara ethnic groups could disrupt security situation in the country.

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Militia fights military with makeshift weapons

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CNN

Africans lack quick access to cholera vaccine

Africa’s public health agency says countries with deadly cholera outbreaks on the continent have no “immediate access” to vaccines amid a global supply shortage.

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Associated Press

HUMAN RIGHTS

Saudi Arabia’s rate of executions doubles

The rate of executions carried out by Saudi Arabia has almost doubled under the rule of the de facto leader, Mohammed bin Salman, with the past six years being among the bloodiest in the Kingdom’s modern history.

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Guardian

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Secret Saudi executions leave families in the dark

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BBC

Experts seek investigation of Wagner Group

Independent human rights experts working with the UN called for an investigation of possible abuses, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by government forces in Mali and the Russian Wagner Group.

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Associated Press

Nigeria to probe secret mass abortion program

Nigeria’s human rights commission has appointed a special panel to investigate a report that the military ran a secret abortion program in its fight against Islamist insurgents.

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Reuters

The Syrians surviving off US army waste

Amid piles of waste, and surrounded by toxic fumes from burning rubbish, a small group of people hunt for food to eat and plastic to sell for recycling at a US military dump.

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BBC

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

US, S. Korea allied military drills anger N. Korea

North Korea has lambasted South Korea and the United States over their joint military exercises, saying the drills have pushed the situation on the Korean peninsula to an ‘extreme red line.’

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Al Jazeera

Jamaica may send troops to quell Haiti’s chaos

Jamaica’s prime minister said his government is willing to send soldiers and police officers to Haiti as part of a proposed multinational security assistance deployment.

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ABC News

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Haiti’s high-profile gang leader speaks to Al Jazeera about crisis

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Iran boosting oil exports despite US sanctions

Iran’s crude oil exports have been surging in recent months, according to data from companies that track the flows. The surge comes despite stringent US sanctions.

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Pakistan’s Peshawar an epicenter for militancy

Pakistan’s Peshawar was once a lively trading city, known as “the city of flowers.” Now it bears the brunt of rising militancy in the region, fueled by conflicts in Afghanistan.

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Associated Press

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Website brings health ed to Turkmen women

Abortion, contraception, domestic violence: none of these are publicly discussed. One website, Saglyk, tries to give women the information they desperately need.

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Guardian

Archaeologists find 5,000-year-old tavern

Researchers working in the ancient city of Lagash discovered that the pub was split into an open-air dining area and a room containing benches, an oven, ancient food remains and even a 5,000-year-old fridge.

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CNN

GLOBAL HEALTH

In Brazil, Indigenous children suffer malnutrition

Dozens of Indigenous children suffering from malnutrition and acute diseases have been hospitalized in northern Brazil, with relatives holding their emaciated frames in scenes that underscore the gravity of a public health crisis.

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Guardian

Jamaica cancer vaccine drive setback by COVID

Plans to prevent one of the deadliest cancers for school girls in Jamaica have been significantly set back by the COVID pandemic, new figures reveal.

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Guardian

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Labs in Kenya, Tanzania train rats to detect tuberculosis

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AfricaNews

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GOOD NEWS

Kenya’s first Black female hot air balloon pilot

A Kenyan woman is trailblazing in the aviation industry as the first licensed Black female hot air balloon pilot.

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France to return sacred drum to Ivory Coast

An Ivorian drum seized by France during colonization is about to be returned to the Ivory Coast. It is the first of a list of 148 works that Ivory Coast officially requested the restitution to France in late 2018.

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AfricaNews

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

USAID asks for food aid flexibility in farm bill

The U.S. Agency for International Development asked Congress to improve the efficiency of U.S. food assistance authorized by the farm bill as it seeks ways to streamline the response to any food crisis.

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Devex

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Syrians forced to move back to refugee camps

Unemployed and hit by rising fuel and electricity prices, some Syrian refugees in Jordan are making a painful choice: moving back to the refugee camps they thought they had left behind.

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Context

Zimbabwe cuts policy rate after inflation falls

Zimbabwe’s central bank has cut its policy rate by 50 percentage points to 150%, it said in a statement, driven by a downward trend in inflation since late last year.

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Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Germany’s pesticides ban to impact Africa

The German government wants to ban the export of pesticides no longer approved in the European Union, but manufacturers and distributors with their sights set on Africa as a growing sales market are not pleased.

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Insufficient rainfall withers Ivory Coast cocoa

Cocoa arrivals at two of Ivory Coast’s main ports have slumped since the beginning of the year as erratic and insufficient rainfall hit crop output, exporters and farmers said.

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Reuters

Fungi a magic solution to climate change

An eminent scientist is calling for urgent new work to protect and even enhance underground fungal networks that could provide part of the solution to climate change.

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France 24

Rhino poaching surges 93 percent in Namibia

Authorities say 87 rhinos were killed last year compared with 45 in 2021, most of them poached from the country’s largest park.

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Al Jazeera

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A man packs gum at the Natural Gum Marketing Enterprise in Adama in Nazret, Ethiopia. (Photo by Ollivier Girard/CIFOR)

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