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Genetically modified cotton has sown trouble in Africa

While bug-resistant genes in Monsanto’s genetically modified cotton produced more volume, the quality fell. Last season, Burkina Faso farmers abandoned the GM varieties.

Reuters

Genetically modified cotton in Burkina Faso

Africanews

Uptake of GM cotton in Africa is the next battle ground for bio-tech firms

allAfrica.com

Iceland closes gender gap, violence remains

For nine years in a row, the World Economic Forum has ranked Iceland as having the world’s smallest gender-equality gap. It also has one of Europe’s highest per-capita levels of reported rapes, according to statistics agency Eurostat.

ABC News

Arctic temperatures rising, sea ice declining

Arctic temperatures are continuing to rise while sea ice declines, a new report has found, with the region showing no sign of returning to its “reliably frozen” state.

CNN

Arctic permafrost thawing faster than ever

Guardian

Life in war-scarred neighborhoods in Ukraine

More than 8,000 private homes and more than 2,000 apartment houses were badly damaged in Donetsk, according to data provided by its administration. Most of these homes are uninhabitable and cannot be rebuilt.

Reuters

Record high 262 journalists imprisoned in 2017

The number of journalists jailed reached a record high this year amid an aggressive crackdown by government authorities. A total of 262 reporters were put behind bars for their work in 2017, the Committee to Protect Journalists reports.

Al Jazeera

What would an earthquake-proof city look like?

Between 1994 and 2013, half a million people around the world died due to earthquakes, with another 118 million affected. Collapsing buildings cause the most casualties, so harm-reduction measures can make an impact.

Guardian

HUMAN RIGHTS

Botswana court recognizes transexual woman

Homosexuals in Africa receive little tolerance at best and are actively persecuted at worst, but a landmark ruling by a Botswana court has recognized a transgender woman as officially female. Botswana has so far been reluctant to fully acknowledge LGBT rights.

IOL

Rising homelessness in Rio creating tensions

A year after Rio de Janeiro hosted the Olympic Games, a grinding economic crisis has led to an influx of thousands of homeless people, creating a climate of tension that city officials are scrambling to address.

ABC News

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Russian contractors fighting, dying in Syria

The St. Petersburg-based website Fontanka reported that about 3,000 Russians under contract to the Wagner group have fought in Syria since 2015.

Daily Star

Post-election chaos continues in Honduras

Security forces in Honduras attempted to clear the streets of barricades erected by supporters of presidential candidate Salvador Nasralla. More than two weeks after the election, no official winner has been declared.

BBC

Still no clear winner in Honduras election

NPR

US, Venezuela spar over opposition parties’ ban

Venezuelan and US officials have been trading barbs after Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro said that some opposition parties would be banned from next year’s presidential election.

BBC

Venezuela opposition banned from running in 2018 election

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

LA subway work finds array of Ice Age fossils

Since work on the extension began in 2014, fossilized remains have routinely turned up from creatures that roamed the grasslands and forests that covered the region during the last Ice Age, about 10,000 years ago.

Seattle Times

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot goes really deep

The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is a 150-year-old storm larger than Earth, but just how deep into the planet does it go? Using radio-wavelength data collected this year by NASA’s Juno mission, researchers have found that signatures of the Great Red Spot persist roughly 300 kilometers into Jupiter.

Science

Jupiter Great Red Spot has deep roots

BBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

Heat-not-burn tobacco ‘is a health risk’

“Heat-not-burn” tobacco products are harmful to health even though they are safer than regular cigarettes, say UK experts. The advisory panel to the government said the devices produce “a number of compounds of concern,” including some that can cause cancer.

BBC

Why drug prices vary between countries

Two pills to wipe out hookworm cost 4 cents in Tanzania. But in the United States, where hookworm has re-emerged, the price for two 200 mg tablets of albendazole can cost as much as $400.

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

Doctor delivers baby at Florida gas station

A Florida gas station turned into a makeshift delivery room when an obstetrician filling up his vehicle was flagged down by a frantic man to help a woman in labor.

People

Mystery runner saves mayor from frozen lake

A mystery good Samaritan helped save Homewood’s 80-year-old mayor, who fell through thin ice on a lake while trying to save his dog. A man jogging by called 911 and then created a makeshift rope using his shirt and the couple’s jackets.

Chicago Sun-Times

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Puerto Rico’s nonprofit sector at a crossroads

As Puerto Rico faces a near-total collapse of infrastructure—economic, political, energy, communications, transportation, education, health, arts and culture—nonprofits there are faced with the perfect crisis opportunity.

Nonprofit Quarterly

Crowdfunding in the philanthropic landscape

The rise of platforms like GoFundMe and GiveWell is astounding and may force nonprofits to adapt their strategies. However, Crowdfunding sites are not long-term planners, like community organizations.

Nonprofit Quarterly

ENVIRONMENT

Unfettered construction raises hurricane costs

Across the U.S., newer construction in flood-prone areas generated more than $9 billion in claims for structural damage on the cash-strapped flood insurance program between 2000 and 2015.

Reuters

Foundation pledges $300M for climate action

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced a $300 million commitment in support of agricultural research aimed at helping farmers in Africa and Asia adapt to the challenging growing conditions brought about by climate change

Philanthropy News Digest

BUSINESS AND TRADE

Supply issues rattle European energy markets

An explosion at an Austrian gas import hub is adding to European supply woes after a North Sea pipeline shutdown, causing energy prices to soar on markets across the continent and Italy to declare a state of emergency.

Deutsche Welle

Terror groups hide cash flow in Uganda

Mobile money systems pose the biggest challenge to Ugandan agencies fighting illicit financial flows. The country’s Financial Intelligence Authority in investigating seven suspicious transactions in 2016 and 2017.

allAfrica.com

Photo of the Day

Shot Dec. 1, 2017, at the Brigham Young University Multicultural Center in Provo, Utah. (Photo by Aaron Hawkins) Photo used under CC BY

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