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Children find refuge from ethnic violence at a displaced persons camp in the northeast region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, an area plagued by residual conflict from the Rwandan genocide and Congo Wars, as well as a score of insurgencies. Congo has 5.6 million internally displaced persons, the most in Africa, according to UN figures. (Photo by Julien Harneis) Photo used under CC BY

Violent clashes in DRC displace 72,000 civilians

Fighting in eastern DRC between the army and M23 rebel group, which is staging its biggest offensive since the 2012-2013 insurrection, has forced more than 72,000 people from their homes in one week, the UN said.

Reuters

Brazilian police asphyxiate unarmed black man

Brazilians are outraged by a video showing a failed police arrest in which a mentally ill black man is forced into the back of a police SUV and then asphyxiated to death by smoke, allegedly from a tossed gas canister.

Al Jazeera

At least 22 killed in latest police raid on Rio favela

YouTube

Foreign fighters abuse human rights in Libya

Libya faces a security threat from private military companies, especially Russia’s Wagner Group, which has violated international law, according to a UN report; migrants are especially vulnerable to human rights abuses.

Associated Press

US struggles to stop Russian mercenaries

ProPublica

Tigray cancer patients sent home to die

Tigrayan doctors say Ethiopia’s civil war has left the sickest in society to suffer agonizing deaths, as the main hospital does not have enough drugs to treat terminally ill people.

Guardian

Providing health care in conflict zones

YouTube

Ghana and Uganda ban grain and food exports

Ghana and Uganda are among several African countries banning the export of grains and other farm produce in an effort to ensure food security as grain prices soar, officials say.

Deutsche Welle

Horrors of Chinese internment camp revealed

A giant cache of secret documents spotlights the highly coercive and potentially lethal practices used in China’s internment camps for ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region.

BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

Judge weighs trial of migrant rescue NGOs

Charities running migrant rescue ships in the Mediterranean faced a pre-trial hearing in Sicily, Italy, over alleged collusion with human traffickers after a controversial probe that involved mass wiretapping.

MSN

India sentences Kashmir rebel to life in prison

A special National Investigation Agency court in the Indian capital, New Delhi, has sentenced the top Kashmiri pro-freedom leader to a life term in a “terrorism” funding case.

Al Jazeera

Executions surge 20% in 2021 led by China, Iran

The number of executions globally rose 20 percent in 2021, while the number of death sentences handed down increased by 40 percent, rights group Amnesty International has said.

Al Jazeera

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Turkey’s Syrian refugees are political pawns

Syrian refugees in Turkey are worried about Erdogan’s plans to to relocate up to 1 million of them to “safe areas” inside Syria. An expert believes this is an attempt to stoke anti-refugee sentiment for voters in the upcoming polls.

Deutsche Welle

Syrian refugees fear Turkey will force them back

Frontline

Sudan security forces clash with protesters

Security forces in Sudan have mounted a fierce crackdown to crush remaining unrest, six months after a coup that brought a military regime to power in the unstable country.

Guardian

Colombia to train Ukraine army on de-mining

A team of Colombian soldiers will travel to Europe to train their Ukrainian counterparts on de-mining techniques, the South American country’s defense minister said.

Reuters

In Ukraine, limbs lost and lives devastated in an instant

Associated Press

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Russian war threatening cooperation in space

On the ground, tensions between the U.S. and Russia are running high. Aboard the jointly controlled International Space Station, the tone is very different: American astronauts live side-by-side with Russian cosmonauts.

NPR

How satellites can help manage, fight famine

The ESA satellite monitors fields across the world. That can help manage shortages.

Deutsche Welle

Unexpected behavior in metals in Earth’s core

A team of scientist simulated the complex flows of Earth’s core in a lab and made a surprising discovery: The flow of liquid metal is more turbulent than expected, a significant impact on heat transport.

ScienceDaily

GLOBAL HEALTH

Monkeypox: What is it and should we worry?

There‘s a small monkeypox outbreak in European countries and two reported cases in the U.S. Health officials have little clue where people caught the virus, and there’s concern the virus may be spreading through communities undetected.

NPR

Mozambique sees first polio case in 30 years

Africa was declared free of wild poliovirus just two years ago. Now, it‘s got a new outbreak on its hands. Mozambique reported its first case since 1992.

Deutsche Welle

Kim rounds on ‘slack’ officials amid COVID rise

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has accused government officials of being negligent and lazy as the country’s first confirmed outbreak of COVID-19 sweeps across the largely unvaccinated country.

Al Jazeera

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Sébastien Roblin):

What will Taiwan and China learn from Russia’s disastrous war in Ukraine?

NBCNews.com

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To stem Iraq’s drug trade, rein in the militias

Asia Times Online

Column (Jan-Werner Müller):

The American right is whitewashing Hungary’s nasty, autocratic regime

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Nun makes hydropower plant to beat blackouts

Blackouts are a daily disruption in the Congo. Fed up with relying on candlelight and costly fuel-powered generators, a nun started raising money to build a hydropower plant.

Reuters

“Happy flower lady” spreads joy with blooms

Patricia Gallagher is known for toting around bouquets of flowers – sometimes hundreds at a time. She takes leftover flowers from stores and events and hands them out to anyone who needs a little pick-me-up.

CBS News

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

MacKenzie Scott makes a historic donation

Big Brothers Big Sisters announced that the billionaire philanthropist has donated $122.6 million, which is the highest donation by a single person in the organization’s 118 years.

Today

Women’s club helps people for over 100 years

The charity work of a little-known women’s club goes mostly unsung, but its roots go deep into the history of women in San Diego.

10 news San Diego

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

A cry for help from flood-hit Bangladesh

The worst floods in Bangladesh’s northeast in nearly two decades have left 10 people dead and two million stranded, officials said.

Al Jazeera

As hunger spreads in Somalia, babies dying

With global focus on Ukraine, aid agencies and the United Nations are desperate to attract attention to a calamity they say is shaping up to be comparable to Somalia’s 2011 famine.

Reuters

Drought and soaring food prices from Ukraine war leave millions in Africa starving

NPR

Somalia food crisis raises school dropout rates

Drought, conflict, locusts, COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine are all coming together to drive up food prices in Africa. In Somalia, hundreds of thousands of children are at risk of dropping out of school to help their families.

Deutsche Welle

1M Afghan children face severe malnutrition

In Afghanistan, 1.1 million children under the age of 5 will likely face the most severe form of malnutrition this year, according to the United Nations.

NBCNews.com

ENVIRONMENT

Shell plc accountable for oils spills in Nigeria

An environmental lawyer successfully convinced a court in Hague that Shell was responsible for oil spills that ravaged local farmlands in Nigeria. He won a prestigious award for his 13-year long effort.

CNN

2022 Goldman Environmental Prize, Nigeria

YouTube

Pregnant elephant poisoned in Indonesia

A critically endangered Sumatran elephant and its unborn baby were found dead from a suspected poisoning in western Indonesia, a conservation official said.

CBS News

Environmentalists meet to stem plastic waste

Environmental activists are meeting in South Africa to press governments and businesses to reduce the production of plastic because it is harming the continent’s environment.

Associated Press

Photo of the Day

Amid the worst drought in 40 years, and with global focus on Ukraine, aid agencies and the United Nations are desperate to attract attention to a calamity they say is shaping up to be comparable to Somalia’s 2011 famine. More than a quarter of a million people died then, mostly children under 5. (Photo by Cate Turton/Department for International Development) Photo used under CC BY

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