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Children sit in a makeshift home at an IDP camp in South Sudan. The World Food Program said it was forced to suspend some food aid to South Sudan just as it was facing its “hungriest year” since independence. (Photo by Petterik Wiggers/Panos Pictures) Photo used under CC BY

UN: 7.8M South Sudanese risk severe hunger in 2023

Up to 7.8 million people in South Sudan may face severe food shortages during next year’s lean season due to floods, drought and conflict, the UN said. “At the same time, there has been a decline in funding for humanitarian programs despite the steady rise in humanitarian needs.”

Reuters

IMF to support South Sudan’s economy

Sudan Tribune

Drought-ravaged Madagascans survive on cacti

Years have passed since Madagascar has seen proper rain. As a result, one million people were dependent on emergency aid in 2021. Aid groups fear that the number will rise this year.

Deutsche Welle

Madagascar’s youth take climate action

YouTube

Displaced Nigerians lose aid, removed from camps

Over 200,000 Nigerians displaced by violence are struggling for food and shelter after authorities closed displacement camps and stopped aid, Human Rights Watch said, adding, "The government is worsening their suffering and deepening their vulnerability.”

Al Jazeera

Narco-trafficking, violence escalate in Ecuador

Ecuador’s gangs—emboldened by lucrative links to Mexican drug cartels—are using terror tactics to intimidate the authorities and citizens as the country teeters on the edge of becoming a narco-state, analysts say.

Guardian

Five policemen killed in Ecuador; president declares emergency

YouTube

S. Africa slum residents decry forced removals

With one in three South Africans out of work, shanty towns are springing up around Cape Town. The authorities are accused of criminalizing poverty, with evictions that echo apartheid laws, civil society organizations say.

Guardian

Cambodia to send deminers to help Ukrainians

Cambodia’s prime minister has agreed to send deminers to help train Ukrainians in clearing land mines planted by Russian forces during their invasion, the Foreign Ministry announced.

Associated Press

HUMAN RIGHTS

Myanmar junta using civilian jet fuel for attacks

Fuel supplies intended for civilian planes in Myanmar are being diverted to the country’s ruling military junta, which then uses it to bombard civilians, Amnesty International said.

Deutsche Welle

Russians accused of civilian massacre in Mali

Russian mercenaries in Mali have been accused of a new massacre of civilians following a major military operation in the country.

Guardian

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Officials: Ethiopia peace agreement finalized

Two officials close to the Ethiopian peace talks say the copy of the “permanent cessation of hostilities” is the signed, final deal designed to end a two-year war that is believed to have killed hundreds of thousands of people.

Associated Press

Malawi emerges as transit hub for Ethiopian refugees

Deutsche Welle

North Korea’s suspected ICBM test launch fails

North Korea’s suspected launch of its most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile failed, according to a South Korean source.

CNN

Pakistan’s ex-PM hurt in shooting at protest

A gunman opened fire at a protest rally in eastern Pakistan, slightly wounding former Prime Minister Imran Khan in the leg and killing one of his supporters, his party and police said. Nine other people also were hurt.

Associated Press

Kenya deploys hundreds to force in Congo

Kenya’s president said his country is sending more than 900 military personnel to eastern Congo to join a new regional force tasked with trying to calm deadly tensions.

Associated Press

UN peacekeepers in Congo leave key military base

Reuters

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

TikTok users’ data accessible to staff in China

TikTok has told its UK and European users that their data will be accessible by some employees in China, admitting for the first time that the data isn’t just locally stored amid concerns of potential misuse.

The Independent

Musk emerges as Twitter’s chief moderator

Days after taking over Twitter, billionaire Elon Musk is positioning himself as moderator-in-chief, while officials continue to leave the company in an expanding exodus of the social media platform’s top management.

i24 News

GLOBAL HEALTH

Cholera outbreaks thriving in a warming world

Cholera outbreaks are widespread and more deadly these days—popping up in places that haven’t seen them in years. Climate change is largely to blame for the uptick, experts said.

Devex

Urban mosquito changes malaria fight in Africa

Ethiopia reported the first urban malaria outbreak during the dry season, an uncommon occurrence caused by an invasive species of mosquito in the region, according to a CDC entomologist.

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

Indian solar-powered village helps residents

Modhera, a village of around 6,500 residents — mostly potters, tailors, farmers and shoemakers — was declared India’s first village to run entirely on solar energy.

Euronews

Microsoft extends aid for Ukraine innovation

Ukraine is counting on more Western technological support as its war against Russia drags on, with Microsoft pledging to extend its backing for Kyiv’s “extraordinary” wartime innovation through the end of next year.

CBS News

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Cambodians win awards for anti-violence video

A non-profit organization in Cambodia collected four international awards for its confrontational domestic violence video.

The Phnom Penh Post

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Aid organizations switch to cash in Ethiopia

Governments and humanitarian organizations in east Africa are increasingly using the relatively new aid concept of giving cash, so that people can buy what they need.

Guardian

Uganda to begin commercial oil exploration

Uganda aims to start commercially pumping its oil reserves in April 2025, with China being considered as a potential source of funds to develop an export pipeline, authorities said.

Al Jazeera

ENVIRONMENT

Oil firms are using search ads to greenwash

Google is selling oil firms valuable digital real estate that they use to downplay their role in climate change, despite pledging it would stop taking money for ads that counter the scientific consensus on global warming.

Context

2M kids in flood-hit Pakistan missing school

Some 2 million children in areas of Pakistan devastated by this summer‘s floods are still missing school, the UN’s children agency said.

ABC News

New Delhi’s air a ‘crime against humanity’

New Delhi’s 20 million residents were effectively breathing smoke as the air quality index breached the “severe“ and “hazardous“ categories in nearly all monitoring stations of the Indian capital.

NBCNews.com

Extreme weather claimed over 2K lives in India

Times of India

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A man steers his float with a push pole, collecting plastic waste from the Yamuna River in New Delhi, India. Global plastic use and waste is projected to nearly triple by 2060, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. (Photo by Koshy Koshy) Photo used under CC BY

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