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Ethiopia’s growing conflict has resulted in more than 25,300 refugees fleeing the Tigray region into Sudan, the U.N. refugee agency has said, as fighting spilled beyond Ethiopia’s borders and threatened to inflame the Horn of Africa region. (Photo by Giro 555 SHO) Photo used under CC BY

Ethiopian aid workers report chaos as masses flee homes

International aid workers who have left Ethiopia’s Tigray region in recent days have described a chaotic and dynamic situation with large numbers on the move to avoid fighting, choking roads already full of military vehicles.

Guardian

Why 30,000 refugees are fleeing Ethiopia

Al Jazeera

Yemen says US blacklisting of Houthis could cost lives

Reuters

Botswana urged to abolish the death penalty

Botswana has seen a steep rise in executions since President Mokgweetsi Masisi took office just over a year ago. Human rights groups are calling on the nation to ban capital punishment.

Deutsche Welle

Peru’s youth takes down president, wants change

Peru’s younger generation — dubbed the ‘bicentennials’ in reference to the 200-year anniversary of Peruvian independence — were at the heart of recent protests that led to the resignation of the country’s interim president, now they want more changes.

Reuters

US coronavirus deaths top a quarter million

US saw the highest COVID-19 daily death toll in more than six months, with at least 1,707 fatalities, according to new data. The virus is now killing at least one American every minute of the day.

CNN

African continent surpasses 2M COVID cases

Africa has surpassed 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases as the continent’s top public health official warned that “we are inevitably edging toward a second wave” of infections.

Associated Press

Hurricane Iota weakens, flooding and death toll rise

Al Jazeera

Argentina leader pushes to legalize abortion

Argentina’s President Alberto Fernández is to present a new bill to Congress on legalizing abortion. He says the measure will help save lives, as every year almost 40,000 women are treated in hospitals after illegal procedures.

BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

Abuse in palm oil fields linked to top brands

Indonesia is the world’s biggest palm oil producer, with an estimated 7.6 million women working in its fields, about half the total workforce, according to the female empowerment ministry.

Associated Press

How a night of bullets quashed a movement

What happened on October 20, and into the early hours of October 21, at the eight-lane Lekki toll gate -- a key piece of Lagos’ road network -- has stunned the country.

CNN

NGOs sound alarm about migrants dying at sea

More than 100 people have died at sea in four separate incidents in the past week. The International Organization for Migration says nearly 700 migrants were killed attempting to cross from Libya to Europe this year.

Deutsche Welle

Thai police fire tear gas at pro-democracy rally

Police in Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, used water cannon and tear gas on pro-democracy protesters trying to reach Parliament, where legislators were debating possible changes to the military-scripted constitution.

Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Deadly Uganda protests over Bobi Wine’s arrest

Several people have died and dozens have been injured, including from gunshot wounds, in protests that erupted after police arrested Ugandan presidential candidate and pop star Bobi Wine, Ugandan police and Red Cross said.

Al Jazeera

Peruvians get 3rd president in a week

Peru swore in its third president in just over a week in a televised ceremony that residents of the fraught South American country watched with both hope and skepticism after the worst constitutional crisis in two decades.

Associated Press

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

SpaceX launches astronauts in historic flight

SpaceX launched four astronauts, the second crew to be launched, to the International Space Station on the first full-fledged taxi flight for NASA by a private company.

NBCNews.com

GLOBAL HEALTH

Fear rises in Kenya as COVID surges again

As Africa is poised to surpass 2 million confirmed virus cases, it is Kenya’s turn to worry the continent with a second surge in infections well under way.

Associated Press

Concerns about equal access to COVID vaccine

A recent analysis by Duke University found that countries have already confirmed purchases for 3.8 billion doses and a further 5 billion doses were under negotiation or had been reserved as of late October.

Al Jazeera

Dem. Rep. of Congo says Ebola outbreak over

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has declared an end to its 11th Ebola outbreak, nearly six months after cases were reported.

Guardian

Medicines vanish from Lebanon shelves

Drugs for everything from diabetes and blood pressure to anti-depressants and fever pills used in COVID-19 treatment have disappeared from shelves around Lebanon.

Associated Press

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GOOD NEWS

Bangladesh opens transgender Islamic school

The first madrassa specifically for transgender students in Bangladesh opened last week in the capital city of Dhaka. Rights advocates say it could help a marginalized community feel more welcome.

CBS News

Britain’s first magazine for Black girls launches

Serlina Boyd struggled to find a magazine for her young daughter that celebrated Black culture. With extra time on their hands during lockdown, they created one together.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

21-year-old, bisexual college student defeated South San Francisco’s Mayor

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Scientist makes playlist of happiest songs

Dutch Neuroscientist Dr. Jacob Jolij has found the happiest songs on earth according to careful scientific research.

My Modern Met

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Nonprofit jobs up, recovery to take 2 years

Nonprofit jobs have recovered 2.3 percent since May but it would take another two years to recover all 1.6 million jobs lost in the nonprofit sector since the pandemic started.

NonProfit Times

Teen connects peers with nonprofit experience

Ellie Zimmerman is helping pave the road for young people to connect and receive hands-on volunteer experience with nonprofits, demonstrating it is never too early to follow your passion.

Forbes

ENVIRONMENT

Blue whales have ‘rediscovered’ S. Georgia

The resurgence of blue whales around the island of South Georgia is real and has probably been under way for a little while now, say scientists.

BBC

Kashmir to enact India’s forest rights law

Authorities in India’s Jammu and Kashmir will implement a law to grant land rights to forest dwelling communities 14 years after the legislation was enacted nationwide, a long-awaited move that may better protect nomadic tribes, human rights activists said.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Antarctic art marks a dark past of whaling

South Georgia’s human history is marked by decades of industrial-scale whaling. That will now be commemorated by a series of sculptures set to become one of the most remote art installations on Earth.

BBC

‘Paying the price for disrespecting nature’

BBC

Ticks choose humans when temperature rises

A scientific experiment has revealed that ticks carrying the deadly Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) disease are more than twice as likely to shift their feeding preference from dogs to humans when temperatures rise.

Guardian

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Amid debt crisis, Africa needs more help

African countries face another debt crisis and will need more long-term help than the latest G20 debt plan offers them to ward off trouble ahead and keep much-needed investments coming in, according to many.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Mexico floods poor, Indigenous areas

Mexican President said he had to face a tough choice on whether to direct excess water to poorer Indigenous areas. The president, whose slogan has always been “the poor come first,” chose the latter.

Associated Press

The community that gets water from a cemetery

BBC

Voter suppression in the U.S: Why it matters

Despite record voter turnout in the recent presidential election, activists say the U.S. electoral process is still rooted in discrimination against ethnic minorities and other groups.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

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Two Sadhus, or Hindu Holy Men, near Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu, Nepal. Usually, sadhus live by themselves, on the fringes of society, and spend their days in devotion to their chosen deity. (Photo by Luca Galuzzi) Photo used under CC BY

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