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Indian migrant construction workers take a stroll on the Dubai Marina promenade during lunch or heat break. Migrant workers in the United Emirates have a history of being subject to wage exploitation and erratic group deportations. (Photo by Paul Keller) Photo used under CC BY

‘Wage theft’ in UAE robs African deportees of future

Arrested before payday, deported without papers and now stonewalled by their former bosses - hundreds of African migrants are being thrown out of Abu Dhabi and forced to struggle to start over without important documentation and crucial cash.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Facebook ignored abusive content policing

Facebook employees have warned for years that as the company raced to become a global service it was failing to police abusive content in countries where such speech was likely to cause the most harm.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Nigeria’s democracy faces uncertain future

A series of overlapping security, political and economic crises has left Nigeria facing its worst instability since the end of the Biafran war in 1970, causing fears that large parts of the country are in effect becoming ungovernable.

Guardian

Weak climate pledges threaten world’s future

The world is squandering the opportunity to “build back better” from the COVID pandemic, and faces disastrous temperature rises of at least 2.7C if countries fail to strengthen their climate pledges, according to a report from the United Nations.

Guardian

Greenhouse gas build-up reached new high in 2020

BBC

African Union to buy up to 110M COVID jabs

The African Union intends to buy up to 110 million doses of COVID vaccines in an arrangement brokered in part by the White House which defers delivery of doses intended for the United States to facilitate the deal.

Al Jazeera

Kabul hospital struggles with staff shortages

In Kabul‘s Indira Gandhi Children’s Hospital, the main children’s hospital of the region, the crumbling of Afghanistan’s health system is reflected in the eyes of exhausted staff as they eke out fast-diminishing stocks of medicines.

Reuters

Afghan baby girl sold for $500 by starving family

BBC

Myanmar junta leader excluded from summit

Southeast Asian leaders began their annual summit without Myanmar this week amid a diplomatic standoff over the exclusion of the leader of the military-ruled nation from the group’s meetings.

Associated Press

Biden joins Southeast Asian leaders to rebuke Myanmar junta excluded from summit

Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Muslim mobs kill 7 Hindus in Bangladesh

Tensions have been on the boil in recent weeks in Bangladesh after mobs attacked Hindu temples and homes. The violence was prompted by allegations that the Quran had been disrespected in a Hindu temple.

Deutsche Welle

Muslim residents in Kashmir fear detention law

A new uptick in violence in the Kashmir valley has added to the woes of residents of the Muslim majority region. Many have had to bear attacks from militants and heavy-handed countermeasures adopted by security forces.

Deutsche Welle

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Congo swears in election chief despite dispute

Democratic Republic of Congo’s constitutional court this week swore in an electoral commission chief whose contested nomination threatens to weaken President Felix Tshisekedi’s ruling coalition.

Reuters

Kabul orphanage struggles to feed children

The program director at a large Kabul orphanage is cutting back on the amount of fruit and meat he gives the children each week because the home is running out of money.

Reuters

Climate now a worse crisis than war for Afghanistan’s farmers

Al Jazeera

Sudan military says it seized power to avoid war

Sudan’s armed forces chief has defended the military’s seizure of power, saying he had dissolved the government to avoid civil war, while protesters took to the streets to demonstrate against the takeover.

Al Jazeera

Sudan coup explained

CNN

Sudan doctors refuse to hand injured protesters to soldiers

Guardian

Fuel shortage spurs multiple crises in Haiti

The national fuel shortage shuttering Haiti’s hospitals has lasted for months, driven by reasons ranging from pandemic aftermath to government incompetence to gang violence.

CNN

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

NASA discovers possible planet outside galaxy

Scientists may have detected signs of a planet transiting a star outside of the Milky Way, in what could be the first planet ever to be discovered outside our galaxy.

CNN

China researchers score a quantum leap

Scientists in Hefei, China have established the world’s first integrated quantum communication network.

Asia Times Online

GLOBAL HEALTH

Russia, Ukraine see record daily deaths

The daily number of COVID-19 deaths in Russia hit another high this week amid a surge in infections that has forced the Kremlin to order most Russians to stay off work.

Associated Press

Congo’s women who fought Ebola want equality

As Ebola returns to Congo, many of the local women who worked to end the last major outbreak are struggling to find jobs.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Thousands seek vaccines at Honduras border

Nearly 8,000 Nicaraguans received Covid-19 vaccines at two customs border crossings with neighboring Honduras in recent days, Honduran health authorities said, as supplies of the inoculations in Nicaragua have run low.

NBCNews.com

Columns And Op-Ed

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Fears of a Hamas takeover of the West Bank are exaggerated

Al Jazeera

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Erdogan is fighting to stay in power

Deutsche Welle

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IS bride sentence an important sign to Yazidis

Deutsche Welle

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GOOD NEWS

‘Hope Buses’ bring classroom to students

In India’s underprivileged communities, hope sometimes arrives on a bus. A project started seven years ago to bring the classroom to those with little access to education has seen enrollment swell since the pandemic struck.

Deutsche Welle

Dad walks 1.2K miles for daughter’s treatment

One dad is going the extra mile for his daughter. Chris Brannigan is currently walking 1,200 miles from Maine to North Carolina in order to fund research on gene therapy for his daughter who has a rare genetic disorder.

Good Morning America

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

$120M pledged for access to COVID treatment

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced a commitment of up to $120 million to accelerate access for lower-income countries to the investigational antiviral drug molnupiravir.

Philanthropy News Digest

Organizations pledge $54M to fight inequality

Organizations have announced ten initiatives totaling $54 million to fight inequality and promote inclusive growth by supporting financial inclusion, small businesses, workforce development, and access to capital.

Philanthropy News Digest

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Uganda school closures hurting economy

In Uganda, economists are warning that the continued closure of schools is harming the economy. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, children have not set foot in the classroom for more than a year and teachers have lost jobs.

Deutsche Welle

Indian households cut back on spending

In India, the festival season from October to December boosts overall consumption but because of the economic fallout from COVID households in this festive season have been tight-fisted.

Asia Times Online

Greed fuels Lebanon’s medicine shortage

The country’s economic depression has been driven by a rapid depletion of public finances, exacerbated by what the World Bank says was “deliberate” mismanagement of the crisis on the part of the ruling elite.

CNN

ENVIRONMENT

COVID cuts small nations’ role in climate talks

Some of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries have been forced to scale back their attendance at the COP26 climate summit due to COVID-19 travel curbs and costs, blunting their negotiating power.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Can Lego help save Singapore’s coral reefs?

Issues like land reclamation and coastal development have caused Singapore’s reefs to deplete over the decades. But a group of scientists from the National University of Singapore are trying to change this with Legos

BBC

Indigenous peoples offer food wisdom

With 476 million indigenous people worldwide, living in territories ranging from the Arctic to the Sahara, customs and traditions vary wildly. But central to the philosophy of many groups is the idea of giving back to Earth.

CNN

Spanish villagers fear their homes will be abandoned to the sea

Reuters

Photo of the Day

Sahrawi refugees in a territory in the Western Sahara receive humanitarian aid as they wait for a United Nations-promised referendum. (Photo by EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid) Photo used under CC BY

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