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More than 230 million girls and women alive today have undergone FGM, compared with 200 million in 2016. (Photo by Olivier Asselin/UNICEF) Photo used under CC BY

Dramatic rise in women, girls undergoing FGM

The number of girls and women who have undergone female genital mutilation has increased by 15% in the past eight years, according to new data. The trend is toward girls being cut at a younger age.

Guardian

Gambia lawmaker tables bill to lift ban on FGM

BBC

Haiti’s PM resigns as law and order collapses

Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has agreed to resign following weeks of mounting pressure and increasing violence in the impoverished country. He has not been allowed back into Haiti since leaving in January.

BBC

Gang violence triggers food and water shortages in Haiti

Deutsche Welle

Argentina child poverty on track to hit 70% soon

Argentina’s child poverty rate could hit 70% in the first quarter of the year unless there is a change in course, UNICEF warned, reflecting how high inflation, weakening growth and austerity are hitting the country hard.

Reuters

People scavenge as Argentina food prices soar

Argentina is going through its worst economic crisis in decades, with the new government trying to slay triple-digit inflation with tough austerity, a move that is boosting the state’s finances, but is squeezing people hard.

Reuters

India’s new citizenship law excludes Muslims

The controversial citizenship law has been widely criticized for excluding Muslims, a minority community whose concerns have heightened under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government.

Associated Press

India on edge over religion-based citizenship law before polls

Al Jazeera

Could Ghana’s anti-LGBTQ+ bill be blocked?

Parliament’s approval of a bill cracking down on LGBTQ+ people in Ghana has raised fears in the government that the country could lose international aid vital to help its economy recover from a deep crisis.

Context

HUMAN RIGHTS

Afghan women protest, brave Taliban reprisals

Small groups of Afghan women have gathered in private spaces to demand that harsh restrictions on their freedoms be lifted, despite recent Taliban crackdowns on protests that have seen activists detained.

Al Jazeera

Kidnappings a threat to everyday life in Nigeria

Kidnappings have become an important issue and a threat to everyday life in Nigeria since President Bola Tinubu came to power last May promising to change the situation.

France 24

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

India’s protesting farmers refuse to back down

Thousands of Indian farmers remain determined to resume their march on the capital, New Delhi.

Deutsche Welle

Kenya pauses Haiti deployment amid doubts

The Kenyan government did an about-face, announcing that it was pausing the deployment after Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry resigned overnight and would re-evaluate once a new Haitian government was in place.

Reuters

Why is Haiti so chaotic?

Associated Press

Haiti politicians rush to create new government

Politicians across Haiti are scrambling for power after Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced that he would resign once a transitional presidential council is created.

Associated Press

Collapse of law and order amid surging violence in Haiti

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Sudan military regains control of national radio

Sudan’s military says it has regained control of the country’s national radio and television headquarters from a rival paramilitary group it has been battling for about a year.

ABC News

Australia digital ID risks excluding First Nations

Australia’s proposed digital ID risks excluding First Nations people who struggle to get official documents, prove heritage.

Context

GLOBAL HEALTH

Haiti’s healthcare system nears state of collapse

The U.N. humanitarian affairs agency warned that Haiti’s health system was “nearing collapse,” with shortages of staff, equipment, beds, drugs and blood to treat patients with gunshot wounds.

Reuters

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Asif Mahmood):

Pakistan’s democracy is at stake—a call for international action

Newsweek

Column (Mohamed El-Bendary):

Africa is plunging into a climate nightmare while the world watches

Newsweek

Column (Arwa Mahdawi):

Opposing oppression is a feminist act – don’t look away from Gaza

Guardian

Column (Jillian Kestler-D’Amours):

‘Should never have come to this’: What’s next as Henry steps down in Haiti?

Al Jazeera

Column (Javier M. Piedra):

Enter Kazakhstan in the rare earth race

Asia Times Online

Column (Alex Farley and Fionna Smyth):

Gender equality funding data is a mess. How do we fix it?

Devex

Column (Amani Aruri and Sharon Bhagwan Rolls):

600 million women live in conflict — and hold key to peace

Devex

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GOOD NEWS

New DigiCow app modernizes Kenyan farming

Kenyan Peninah Njeri saw the struggles faced by dairy farmers. So she created a digital platform to access information and resources.

Deutsche Welle

Indian women driving farming, social change

Hundreds of women are being trained to fly fertilizer-spraying aircraft under a government-backed program.

Al Jazeera

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Aid for Sudan refugees could end next month

Food aid for hundreds of thousands of Sudanese refugees in Chad, some of whom are close to starvation, will be suspended next month without more funding, the World Food Program said.

Reuters

As Sudan civil war rages, US special envoy begins regional tour to push for cease-fire

ABC News

Aid ship with 200 tons of food sets sail to Gaza

An aid ship loaded with some 200 tons of food set sail from Cyprus to Gaza. The shipment is a test for the opening of a sea corridor to supply aid to the territory.

Associated Press

Gaza food aid ship delayed as Ramadan begins with no cease-fire

NBCNews.com

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Israel campaigns to destroy Gaza food system

A U.N. expert said that Israel was destroying Gaza’s food system as part of a broader “starvation campaign” in its war against Hamas militants.

Reuters

Abuse in care jobs shatters migrants’ dreams

Probes into care companies double as reports of debt bondage and exploitation engulf migrant workers lured by a new visa scheme.

Context

ENVIRONMENT

Rising seas are killing India’s coastal villages

As the sea inundates Odisha’s coastline, livelihoods have withered with the harvest and weddings are a rarity as young women refuse to move to areas where they see no future.

Guardian

Bird flu infects penguins at wildlife haven

Bird flu has been confirmed in 10 penguins on South Georgia, one of the world’s great wildlife havens.

BBC

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While access to reproductive and maternal health care is expanding, local custom kept Fereshta, like many women in Afghanistan, from seeking timely emergency obstetric care. (Photo by Nairobi Summit on ICPD25) Photo used under CC BY

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