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The Nile River has hit its highest water levels in a half-century under heavy seasonal rainfall. The flooding now affects over a million people in parts of Sudan, Ethiopia, and South Sudan, as worries about climate change rise. (Photo by Nafeer Sudan) Photo used under CC BY

Widespread floods threaten 1M people across E. Africa

Flooding has affected over a million people across East Africa, another calamity threatening food security on top of locust outbreaks, ongoing conflict, and COVID-19. Those who fled now cling to precarious positions, some piling mud barriers around their homes.

Associated Press

Climate change, conflict ravage the Sahel region

Deutsche Welle

Thai protesters push for democratic reforms

Thousands of demonstrators defied police warnings and occupied a historic field in Thailand’s capital to support the demands of a student-led protest movement for new elections and reform of the monarchy.

CBC News

Rohingya children face trafficking in lockdowns

Child marriage, labor, and violence are on the rise in Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps and the risk of human trafficking grows with every day the pandemic shuts youth services, according to a new UN-led study.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

School closures in Kenya lead to rise in FGM

Even before the pandemic hit 4.1 million girls were already at risk of FGM this year. Now, with classrooms closed to curb coronavirus, even more young girls are at risk of FGM, teenage pregnancy and child marriage.

Al Jazeera

Turkey struggles to contain violence against women

Deutsche Welle

Female Pakistani journalists threatened online

The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned relentless social media attacks on women journalists in Pakistan. The online posts include vicious assaults that have threatened rape and even death.

ABC News

Jewish New Year allows for a time to reflect

Rosh Hashanah is a two-day celebration that marks the beginning of the Jewish High Holy Days each autumn. In a year filled with pandemic and election madness, the holiday allows for people to renew.

CNN

HUMAN RIGHTS

Mass rally starts after Belarus police crackdown

Tens of thousands of opposition supporters marched in the Belarusian capital of Minsk despite heavy police presence and a day after officers detained hundreds of demonstrators at a women’s march in the capital.

Al Jazeera

Thai demonstrators challenge monarchy

Openly challenging the rule of Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn, thousands of protesters have marched in Bangkok for the second straight day to present demands that include a call for reforms to curb his powers.

Al Jazeera

Three-quarters of Moria refugees relocated

Around 9,000 asylum seekers have been moved to a temporary camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, 10 days after a fire destroyed the notorious Moria camp. Many resisted initially, fearing that they would get stuck there.

Deutsche Welle

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

US claims UN sanctions on Iran reinstated

The U.S. has broken with all other permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and unilaterally declared the re-imposition of all UN sanctions against Iran - a claim rejected by Iran and the international community.

Al Jazeera

Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the demure firebrand who became a legal, cultural and feminist icon, has died. The Supreme Court announced her death, saying the cause was complications from pancreatic cancer.

NPR

England imposes fine for breaking rules

People in England who refuse to self-isolate to stop the spread of COVID-19 could face fines of up to $13,000 under tough new regulations announced to tackle a surge in cases.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Oldest footprints point to route out of Africa

The oldest human footprints in the Arabian Peninsula date to between 112,000 and 120,000 years ago and give insights into the routes that early modern humans took out of Africa maybe 5,000 years earlier.

NBCNews.com

Student’s invention stops microplastic pollution

A group of British students have developed a tire attachment to reduce the microplastic pollution caused by tire wear. The innovative device removes 60 percent of tire wear particles on the roads.

euronews

New ‘hack’ reveals the scale of ocean warming

Scientists have found a clever new way of measuring ocean warming, using sound waves from undersea earthquakes. The researchers say the “hack” works because sound travels faster in warmer water.

BBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

1 person in every 1,500 in Japan is at least 100

Figures from Japan’s Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry show the number of centenarians went above 80,000 for the first time this year -- the 50th consecutive annual increase and the biggest rise to date.

CNN

Tracking Africa’s COVID-19 cases

Experts warn fragile healthcare systems in many African countries could be overwhelmed in the face of a severe outbreak of COVID-19, the highly infectious respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus.

Al Jazeera

Singapore rolls out COVID-19 tracing tokens

BBC

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GOOD NEWS

Kansas City may finally name street after MLK

Kansas City is one of the largest metropolitan areas in the U.S. without a street named after Martin Luther King Jr., but that could soon change with a proposal expected to be voted on by local lawmakers in the coming weeks.

The Hill

Woman raises spirits with birthday parties for hospitalized kids

Good Morning America

Teenager creates dolls for sick children

17-year-old Ariella Pacheco, designs and sews unique dolls to donate to children with rare medical conditions.

Real Simple

NONPROFIT & PHILANTHROPY

Black lives matter in children’s books, too

Frustration from the lack of books with Black characters led Krenice Roseman and her husband to start Young, Black & Lit, a nonprofit that provides free books that feature Black main characters to children.

MSN

Feeding the hungry during the pandemic

A Plus

ENVIRONMENT

Spider-like toxins found in Australia’s trees

Toxins produced by Australia’s stinging trees bear a strong resemblance to those of spiders and scorpions, scientists have found. Those stung by the leaves of such trees first feel an intense burning.

BBC

Poland’s coal dependency hampers climate change efforts

CNN

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

Puerto Rico still in pain 3 years after Hurricane

Three years after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, there‘s frustration that crises have only compounded while the Trump administration and island officials haven’t made any real progress.

NBCNews.com

Precarity for Brazil’s domestic workers

The novel coronavirus is forcing some Brazilian parents to work from home, mind their own kids and clean their own houses. That has threatened the livelihood of the mostly female labor force that had tended Brazil’s homes.

Deutsche Welle

Garment workers, paid by the piece, say they’ll keep fighting to change the system

NBCNews.com

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Pakistani schoolgirls on their way to class, prior to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by DFID - UK Department for International Development) Photo used under CC BY

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