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Women coerced into sex for water in Kenyan slum

Women and girls in Kenya’s Kibera slum, one of the country’s informal settlements, are often forced to trade sex for water. The government says it now wants to tackle the problem, which is also prevalent in many rural communities.

Deutsche Welle

Kenyans to pay ten times for water as new levies take effect

YouTube

India government cuts social security programs

India’s federal budget has attracted sharp criticism from opposition parties and civil society groups over spending cuts to key social security programs feeding and employing the poor as the country battles rising inequality.

The Independent

Indian family struggles to escape their slum

Al Jazeera

Syria quake brings misery amid hellscape of civil war

A devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake brought carnage to a region of Syria that has already suffered a decade of civil war. The tremors come as temperatures plummet, with communities facing acute fuel shortages; humanitarian assistance is dwindling.

The Independent

Syria-Turkey 7.8 magnitude earthquake kills 2.3K

i24 News

North Korea set to discuss ‘urgent’ food issue

North Korea has set a meeting to discuss the “urgent task” of improving its agricultural sector, a possible sign of worsening food insecurity as the country’s economic isolation deepens amid a nuclear weapons push.

Associated Press

Activists intensify fight against FGM in Nigeria

Nigerian activists have intensified their advocacy against female genital mutilation (FGM), as the practice, although outlawed, is still prevalent in some communities.

Deutsche Welle

Venezuela’s economic rebound not felt by poor

After eight years of economic crisis, Venezuela‘s economy is showing a few signs of recovery, but those living in the capital’s poorest neighborhoods have yet to feel the benefits of the apparent economic rebound.

BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

India arrests thousands over child marriages

More than 1,800 men have been arrested in a state in India for marrying underage girls, as the local government launches what it says will be a sustained crackdown.

The Independent

Italy ‘complicit’ in crimes for renewing pact

A migration agreement between Italy and Libya has been automatically renewed for three years amid warnings by humanitarian organizations that this might make Rome and the European Union complicit in crimes against humanity.

Al Jazeera

EU migration impasse leaves refugees destitute

Some refugees and asylum-seekers in Brussels have been spending months in makeshift tents out in the cold. The lack of help for most refugees has been driving non-governmental organizations and volunteers to despair.

ABC News

Iraqis demand law against domestic violence

Iraqis are protesting to demand a law against domestic violence, days after a YouTuber was strangled by her father in an ‘honor’ killing that sparked outrage.

Al Jazeera

‘Honor’ killing of YouTube star sparks outrage in Iraq

Guardian

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Peru Congress rejects bid to advance elections

The Peruvian Congress has voted down another proposal to bring forward elections to 2023, a day after a similar bid was turned down amid nationwide protests that are shaking the country’s economy.

Al Jazeera

More than 40 killed in Nigeria ahead of elections

More than 40 people have been killed in fatal clashes between gunmen and vigilantes in Nigeria’s northern Katsina state, the latest violence ahead of parliamentary and presidential elections.

Al Jazeera

Haitians seek US passports to escape violence

Haitians desperate for passports to apply for a U.S. migration program crowded local migration centers, according to videos shared on social media, crushing through small doorways and scaling the outside of stairways.

AfricaNews

Fear, violence and chaos grip Haiti as gangs seize control

PBS NewsHour

Iran to pardon ‘tens of thousands’ of protestors

Iran’s supreme leader reportedly ordered an amnesty or reduction in prison sentences for “tens of thousands” of people detained amid nationwide anti-government protests.

Associated Press

Protests in Iran: A turning point?

YouTube

Iran‘s ’revolutionary process’ irreversible, says Nobel laureate

Reuters

In Israel, thousands rally against legal reforms

Thousands of Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv for the fifth consecutive week to demonstrate against controversial legal reforms touted by Benjamin Netanyahu’s rightwing government.

NPR

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Online platforms misused for human trafficking

Online platforms are being misused for the modern slave trade and human trafficking. The UN has been criticizing this practice for a long time; however, it continues.

Deutsche Welle

Pakistan blocks Wikipedia for blasphemy

Wikipedia has been blocked in Pakistan for hosting "blasphemous content.” “The main purpose is to silence any dissent,” said digital rights activist Usama Khilji.

BBC

Breakthrough shines light on mummy making

We know a lot about how mummies were embalmed, but the specific substances and mixtures and how exactly they were used have long eluded us — until now.

Deutsche Welle

Kenya court rules that Facebook can be sued

A judge in Kenya has ruled that Facebook’s parent company, Meta, can be sued in the East African country.

ABC News

GLOBAL HEALTH

Nepal Detects H5N1 Bird Flu on Farm

Nepal has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of avian influenza, or bird flu, on a poultry farm near the capital Kathmandu, the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) said.

U.S. News & World Report

Kenya saves lives with on-camera surgeries

In many remote areas of the world, specialized gynecologists who can perform caesarian surgeries are few and far between. Some maternity hospitals in Kenya are going virtual to save lives.

Devex

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GOOD NEWS

Meet Uganda’s first Grammy Award nominee

What does it feel like to be the first Ugandan artist to be nominated for a Grammy Award? BBC News Africa sat down with musician and producer Eddy Kenzo to talk about what this win would mean to him and his country.

BBC

Nigeria security team challenges prejudices

In the southern Nigerian city of Uyo, a team of all-female, plus-sized security guards is challenging old prejudices.

Deutsche Welle

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Norway looks to donate $7.3B in aid to Ukraine

Norway is looking to donate 75 billion kroner ($7.3 billion) to Kyiv as part of a five-year support package that would make the Scandinavian country one of the world’s biggest donors to war-torn Ukraine.

ABC News

US to bolster agriculture in African countries

The U.S. State Department has launched the Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils initiative to bolster support for African countries to build more climate-resilient food systems.

Devex

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Turmoil risks Peru’s financial stability

The scale of violence following recent political events has revived class and racial divisions in Peru, and has many of its residents wondering whether the long period of uneasy stability has run its course.

Associated Press

South African rand falls against the dollar

The South African rand fell against the dollar after the release of a whole-economy survey that showed business activity shrinking in Africa’s most industrialized economy.

Reuters

Global stocks sink after US jobs data fan fears

Global stock markets and Wall Street futures sank after strong U.S. jobs data fanned fears of more interest rate hikes to cool inflation.

ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

Chile wildfires spread as death toll rises

Chile extended an emergency declaration to yet another region as firefighters struggled to control dozens of raging wildfires that have killed at least 23 people amid a record-breaking heatwave.

Al Jazeera

Wildfires wreaking havoc in Chile

Deutsche Welle

Powerful earthquake rocks Turkey, Syria

A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked wide swaths of Turkey and Syria, killing more than 2,300 people and injuring thousands more as it toppled hundreds of buildings and trapped residents under mounds of rubble.

Associated Press

Turkey earthquake: Death toll could increase eight-fold, WHO says

BBC

Resident describes devastation in Syria after deadly 7.8 magnitude earthquake

NBCNews.com

UN launches efforts to track greenhouse gases

The United Nations recently launched a major effort to fill a key gap in the fight against climate change: standardized, real-time tracking of greenhouse gases.

i24 News

Indigenous Oaxacans confront climate change

As they face drought and pests, Oaxaca’s indigenous peoples say community forest ownership and management remains crucial.

Context

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Fishermen hauling in the crab traps in Vĩnh Long, Vietnam. (Photo by Peter Nijenhuis) Photo used under CC BY

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