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A health worker for USAID identifies and treats childhood malnutrition in Madagascar in December 2020. As hunger spreads in Madagascar, poor families have to rely on foraging for wild foods and leaves that are difficult to eat and potentially dangerous. (Photo by USAID in Africa, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) Photo used under CC BY

Fierce Madagascar drought pushes 1M toward famine

Madagascar’s worst drought in 40 years has left over a million people facing desperate food shortages. The south of the island will produce less than half its usual harvest because of low rains, the UN estimates.

Guardian

Africa’s drought crisis: Zimbabwe seeks solutions, Madagascar edges toward famine

Deutsche Welle

Mozambique refugees receive mental first aid

The tens of thousands of Mozambicans fleeing militia violence in the city of Palma need immediate psychological first aid. Doctors Without Borders’ mission staff are trained to use an eight-step treatment process.

NPR

Mozambique: How a massacre unfolded

Sky News

COVID-plagued Indians beg for urgent response

India’s government faces growing calls for a nationwide lockdown as COVID-19 cases remain high. Those dealing with the sick and dead say India’s approach to distributing vaccines and oxygen has failed.

Deutsche Welle

India’s catastrophe could make global shortages worse

CNN

Rumors impede vaccination drive in DR Congo

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the second-largest country in Africa, persuading people to get the COVID vaccine is an uphill struggle. Only 5,000 people have been vaccinated in a country of nearly 90 million.

BBC

Colombians protest inequity, police violence

Proposed tax reforms initially sparked the most widespread wave of protests Colombia has seen in years, but security forces’ response also awakened deep mistrust toward them.

CNN

COVID lockdown spawns ‘distress, anxiety, desperation’ in Colombia, consultant says

NPR

Bomb attack kills over 80 Afghan girls, women

A bombing near a school in Kabul killed over 50 people, most of them girls and young women, according to Tariq Arian, a spokesman for the Afghan interior ministry. The death toll may in fact be over 80.

NPR

Surviving Afghan girls want to return to school

CBS News

HUMAN RIGHTS

More than 10K children held in US shelters

The Biden administration is holding tens of thousands of asylum-seeking children in an opaque network of some 200 facilities that spans two dozen states and includes five shelters with more than 1,000 children inside.

Associated Press

Anti-racist tried for defacing French statue

A French activist for Black rights went on trial in Paris for defacing a statue of a historical figure from France’s colonial, slave-trading past, calling the protest a political act to denounce deep-seated racism.

ABC News

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Colombia’s protests unlikely to fizzle out

Protesters have blocked key roads leading to shortages of fuel and food in some areas and there have been violent clashes between the security forces and demonstrators.

BBC

Thai police arrest journalists fleeing Myanmar

Three Myanmar journalists have been arrested in Thailand after fleeing across the border to escape a crackdown by the military junta.

Asia Times Online

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Neanderthal remains found in cave near Rome

Archaeologists discovered the fossilized remains of nine Neanderthals at a prehistoric cave site south of Rome, the Italian Cultural Ministry announced last weekend.

NPR

Oceans’ extreme depths measured in detail

Scientists say we now have the most precise information yet on the deepest points in each of Earth’s five oceans.

BBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

COVID-ravaged India’s spike sees slight fall

India’s COVID crisis has shown scant signs of easing despite a seven-day average of new cases now at a record high.

Al Jazeera

Further waves in India ‘inevitable,’ scientist warns

Deutsche Welle

New virus variant cause concern in Africa

BBC

New Tanzanian president ditches mask denial

Tanzania’s new president stressed the importance of face masks in fighting COVID, ditching one of the most controversial policies of her late COVID-skeptic predecessor.

CNN

Malaysia locks down to preempt India-like crisis

Malaysia is set to begin its third nationwide lockdown following its deadliest week on record since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Asia Times Online

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GOOD NEWS

Uganda student brings her education home

A full scholarship launched Gloria Tumushabe’s engineering and computer science studies at a top U.S. school, but she says too many others in her native Uganda, 14,000 miles away, are left behind.

CBS News

Former foster children return to mentor others

10 News San Diego

Woman fosters 81 infants over 34 years

Microsoft News

Quilt company preserves memories and empowers people with hearing loss

Today

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Report finds shift in philanthropy trends

The COVID pandemic has accelerated certain trends in giving, including increased use of digital giving tools and a shift in the causes donors see as important.

Philanthropy News Digest

Women’s Foundation of Boston invests in women, girls

WCVB

Women earn far less than men at nonprofits

Women earn 8.9% less than men at nonprofit organizations with the gap becoming greater when there is room for salary negotiations.

NonProfit Times

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Economic growth to mask widening inequality

The world economy will fare better this year than previous projections indicated, but a slow vaccine roll-out in many developing countries will hamper their economic recoveries.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

COVID worsens Venezuelan child labor crisis

COVID quarantine measures have boosted the number of children in the workforce in Venezuela, according to child protection activists in the South American nation.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

ENVIRONMENT

Climate change threatens Kenyan tea workers

Climate change is set to ravage tea production in Kenya, the biggest global supplier of black tea, threatening the livelihoods of millions of plantation workers.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

April’s Amazon deforestation worst in 5 years

Preliminary data released last week signaled deforestation of Brazil’s Amazon in April was the highest for that month in at least five years.

Associated Press

Forest the size of France regrown worldwide over 20 years, study finds

Guardian

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Environmental activists protesting the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Mexico City, Mexico. The destruction of the Amazon rainforest has proliferated under President Jair Bolsonaro, who has been under heavy scrutiny for ramping up deforestation after committing to curb deforestation. (Photo by Cleo Grimaldi) Photo used under CC BY

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