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Kenyan Moses Wakala uses an improvised hand wash facility. Community-led initiatives to ward off coronavirus drive are far more likely to win compliance from residents than edicts from a government noted only for its neglect. (Photo by Laura Kraft) Photo used under CC BY

Kenya’s civic leaders step up to coronavirus challenge

Concerned residents in neighborhoods neglected by Kenya’s notoriously corrupt government are setting up hand-washing stations and organizing teams of volunteers to educate people about coronavirus.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Photos: public life is surreal in a pandemic

NPR

Israel tracks, texts people exposed to virus

NPR

Egypt activists held for urging inmates’ release

Egypt has arrested and charged four prominent activists and authors who called for the government to release prisoners amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Al Jazeera

US sanctions cause food shortage in Cuba

Cuba is short of oil. In an effort to strangle its most indefatigable and intimate communist foe, the US has since April sanctioned tanker companies delivering petroleum to Cuba from Venezuela, its closest ally.

Guardian

True tally of FGM victims higher than known

The number of women and girls who have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) could be much higher than previously estimated, as a new report shows the practice is carried out in more than 90 countries.

Guardian

Illicit financial flows affect African development

Nigeria, South Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo and Ethiopia account for 50 percent of illicit financial flows in Sub-Saharan Africa, Brookings Institution said in a new report.

allAfrica.com

Migrant flow drops on Turkey-Greece border

The number of migrants trying to cross the border from Turkey into Greece border has decreased dramatically amid the coronavirus crisis, but some are refusing to abandon their attempts to get into the EU.

Balkan Insight

A day in the life of refugees on the Turkish border

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

The forgotten survivors of Cyclone Idai

A year after eastern Zimbabwe was devastated by one of the worst storms on record, many people remain amid the wreckage living in makeshift shelters,

Guardian

Rohingya refugee camps Covid-19 time bomb

As Bangladesh confirms its first Covid-19 death, fears are rising that the lethal virus may soon spread across the densely populated country, where health services are insufficient even in the best of times.

Asia Times Online

Namibia’s #MeToo movement hunts predators

#MeTooNamibia has erupted into a growing movement backed by the first lady, Monica Geingos, that is using social media to track down sexual predators, and offer survivors psychosocial and legal support.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

India hangs 4 for notorious rape, murder

India hanged four men who were convicted for the rape and murder of a woman on a bus in New Delhi in 2012 — a case that shocked the world and shamed the country over its appalling record on crimes against women.

South China Morning Post

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

N. Korea fires missiles amid pandemic

North Korea fired two projectiles that appeared to be short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off the east coast of the Korean peninsula. Analysts said it was a show of confidence during the coronavirus pandemic.

Al Jazeera

Slovakia swears in new government coalition

A four-party coalition government has taken office in Slovakia, with the coronavirus outbreak an immediate policy challenge.

Al Jazeera

Brazil statue lit with affected countries flags

Brazil’s famed Christ the Redeemer statue was lit up with the flags of countries that have reported positive coronavirus tests, as cases of the virus spread around the world.

NPR

Health workers targeted in Yemen conflict

There were 120 incidents between March 2015 and December 2018, including airstrikes, ground attacks, military occupation, assaults on health workers and other violations such as looting and restrictions on humanitarian aid.

Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

NASA protects astronauts from coronavirus

NASA already has a protocol in place for returning astronauts that includes a post-landing medical check by flight doctors.

CNN

Flower armageddon occurring in Netherlands

Normally, at this time of year in the Netherlands, millions of beautiful flowers are being shipped around the world from the world’s biggest flower market. Now, there’s no demand for flowers because of the corona crisis in the whole of Europe.

Asia Times Online

Robots use light beams to zap hospital viruses

The robot was launched in early 2019, following six years of collaboration between parent firm, Blue Ocean Robotics and Odense University Hospital where Prof Kolmos has overseen infection control.

BBC

Online maps fight environmental destruction

Deutsche Welle

Daily meditation could slow aging in your brain

Taking up meditation while sheltering-in-place may not only help you cope with the stress of the coronavirus pandemic, it may even keep your brain from aging.

CNN

Australia lab may have found Covid-19 cure

Australian researchers have been given the green light to start human trials of a promising drug treatment for the novel coronavirus after raising funds from donors in a remarkable global appeal.

Asia Times Online

GLOBAL HEALTH

Nigerian doctors go on strike as cases rise

Nigerian doctors in the capital, Abuja, have gone on strike, demanding two months’ back pay, despite the steady rise in coronavirus cases in the country.

The New Humanitarian

Doctor who helped defeat Smallpox explains what’s coming

Wired

Coronavirus refugee crisis looms in Nigeria

As countries begin to impose travel restrictions and lockdowns to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, nowhere is the concern more urgent than Nigeria, where officials are working to head off a calamity in the making.

OZY

Africa, Latin America fragile targets for coronavirus spread

Associated Press

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GOOD NEWS

New Jersey police deliver food to elderly

Senior citizens face a potentially life-threatening risk if infected with Coronavirus, so police officers in New Jersey are doing their part to keep them safe.

SunnySkyz

Family embraces social distancing to wish grandmother, 95, a happy birthday

CNN

Music lifts spirits of Americans isolated in their homes

Inside Edition

Compassion is alive and well as the world navigates the pandemic

CNN

NONPROFIT & PHILANTHROPY

Student organizes grocery ‘Shopping Angels’

Jayde Powell began to gather several members of her school’s medical fraternity, Phi Delta Epsilon, to help and soon formed a group called Shopping Angels.

Today

ENVIRONMENT

Teen pregnancy risk rises as schools shut

School closures due to coronavirus in West Africa risk exposing girls to sexual violence and unwanted pregnancy, experts said on Thursday, basing the warning on past experience with Ebola.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Urban gardens take root in Johannesburg

Johannesburg is turning from a city known for crime and rapid urbanization to one where urban farmers grow food to feed families and neighbors.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Waste management in Brasília, Brazil

A university in the Brazilian capital, Brasília, is helping to implement a new, sustainable waste management system that aims to increase the proportion of waste that is recycled.

Deutsche Welle

The Cashmere crisis in the Himalayan ice desert

BBC

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

How water scarcity is changing south Iraq

Researchers find people are being forced from their homes because poor water supplies are leaving families unable to sustain themselves through agriculture.

Guardian

House-bound Senegalese kids learn from TV

The coronavirus pandemic has shut schools across West Africa and beyond, but in Senegal a television channel has launched daily lessons to prevent children falling behind with their studies and to educate them about the virus.

Reuters

Photo of the Day

A woman on a street in Russia reacts to the approach of a photographer on March 18. Moscow city authorities this week reported Russia’s first coronavirus-related death, a 79-year-old woman in Moscow with underlying health issues, as President Vladimir Putin said authorities fighting the virus should be ready for anything. (Photo by Drug Addiction Clinic Vita) Photo used under CC BY

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