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Chadians bring supplies to a center in the northeast region of the country. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Action recently warned that one-third of Chad (about 5.5 million people) urgently needs humanitarian assistance due to skyrocketing food prices. (Photo by David Stanley) Photo used under CC BY

Chad declares emergency as food insecurity soars

Chad declared a food emergency due to a lack of grain supplies. The African nation urged the international community to help its population cope with rising food insecurity in the wake of the Ukraine war and a poor harvest.

Deutsche Welle

Hundreds die as Somalia faces famine

There have been 448 deaths this year at malnutrition treatment centers in Somalia, but the actual number could be in the thousands, a UN coordinator said, as many more people are dying beyond the notice of authorities.

Associated Press

Drought displacing Somalia’s most vulnerable

YouTube

Food shortages propel next global health crisis

Growing food shortages may represent the same threat to the world as the COVID-19 pandemic, a leading global health figure warned, as people not only suffer starvation deaths, but also become more vulnerable to diseases when malnourished.

Reuters

Sudanese farmers warn of failing harvests

Sudanese farmers say the government, cut off from billions in international financing following a coup in October, failed to buy their wheat under promised terms; now the farmers do not have enough funding for the new crop.

Reuters

Sudan’s anti-coup groups boycott talks to end crisis

Al Jazeera

Sri Lanka power union announces strike

A power sector union in Sri Lanka said it will go on an indefinite strike in protest against new government legislation, potentially leading to power blackouts.

Reuters

Colombia targets subsistence farmers

Colombia is using military forces to protect the country’s forests and rivers, but experts say the operation targets vulnerable farming families instead of the kingpins who finance mass forest clearance.

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

UK refugees being deported to Rwanda despair

The United Kingdom announced a controversial plan to offshore asylum seekers to the African nation in April. The first deportation flight is set to take off on June 14.

Al Jazeera

At least 27 killed in Sudanese ethnic clashes

Heavy fighting in Sudan’s west and south has killed at least 27 people and left dozens wounded, with the United Nations envoy saying he was “deeply concerned.”

Yahoo! News

Disabled Nigerians seek inclusion in election

People with disabilities say the conversation about inclusion in Africa’s largest democracy needs to move to implementation proper.

Al Jazeera

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

What are prospects for Afghan-US relations?

Normal relations between Afghanistan and the United States are not on the horizon after 20 years of war. A former U.S. diplomat discusses the chances for national reconciliation in Afghanistan and U.S. foreign policy.

Al Jazeera

Separatist rebels kill five police in Cameroon

Rebels killed five gendarmes in Cameroon near a region where a deadly conflict has pitted separatists from the country’s Anglophone minority against the security forces.

Yahoo! News

Ukraine wants to buy Israel’s Iron Dome system

Ukraine wants to purchase Israel’s Iron Dome defense system to use against Russia and has accused the Israeli government of not providing enough military or medical assistance.

Newsweek

In Burkina Faso, militias lead anti-terror fight

The ongoing insurgency that has raged across much of Burkina Faso has brought misery and suffering to the nation of 21 million. Localized militias have increasingly taken on larger roles in the ongoing struggle.

Newsweek

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Antarctic sea floor mapped in greatest detail

Scientists have made the most precise map yet of the mountains, canyons and plains that make up the floor of Antarctica’s encircling Southern Ocean.

BBC

Fast radio burst detected 3B light-years away

Astronomers have detected a mysterious, repeating fast radio burst emanating from a dwarf galaxy located 3 billion light-years away.

CNN

Dark skies over Presteigne help track hazards

The Spaceguard Center near Presteigne in Powys is scanning the night skies looking for near-Earth objects.

BBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

Lebanon crisis causes health worker exodus

An economic crisis is leading large numbers of health workers to quit for better opportunities abroad, forcing medical centers to close departments and turn away the needy.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Polio outbreak in Pakistan worsens among kids

Eight polio cases have now been reported in children over the past month in North Waziristan district, bordering Afghanistan.

Guardian

Poverty worsens pneumonia’s toll in Honduras

There are fears that the threat posed by pneumonia – already one of the leading causes of child death in Honduras – is growing.

Guardian

Nigerian hospital lacks supplies for survivors

An attack on a Catholic church in Nigeria killed 22 people and injured 50, an official said, as the local hospital started to run short of supplies needed to treat survivors.

Reuters

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Frida Ghitis):

An economic ‘hurricane’ is coming. Political turmoil could be next.

CNN

Column (Tom Rogan):

China chaffs itself in the face

Washington Examiner

Column (Claudia Webbe):

Rejecting war is not enough: racism dooms peace

Asia Times Online

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GOOD NEWS

Ecological houses for Mozambique’s displaced

Ecological houses, built with glass and plastic bottles, will be the new homes for several displaced families in Mozambique.

Deutsche Welle

Marble slab turned out to be ancient yearbook

Researchers in the United Kingdom have found that an ancient Greek inscription on a 2,000-year-old marble tablet is actually something resembling a yearbook for a graduating class, according to a new translation.

NPR

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Bangladesh woman matches families, food aid

An estimated tens of millions of people living in Bangladesh were pushed into poverty amid the coronavirus pandemic. One woman started collecting food items from wealthy people in a bid to help out.

Deutsche Welle

Uber powers emergency deliveries in Ukraine

Uber has built a “private-label” version of its delivery platform to help the United Nations deliver food and water supplies to war-torn areas of Ukraine.

BBC

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

War displaces two-thirds of Ukraine’s children

The UN estimates that two-thirds of Ukraine’s children have had to leave their homes at some point since Russia invaded the country. Among those are tens of thousands for whom home, before the war, was an institution.

NPR

International community must do more to help most vulnerable in Ukraine refugee crisis

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How the war is hitting Ukrainian farmers

Ukraine was one of the largest exporters of wheat and corn. Since the Russian invasion, farmers have hardly any workers because they are fighting Putin’s army, and ports and rail lines have been blocked or destroyed.

Deutsche Welle

Turkey, Russia discuss efforts to restart Ukrainian grain exports

Al Jazeera

World Bank dims outlook for global economy amid Russia war

Associated Press

ENVIRONMENT

Nations demanding funding for climate losses

The surging costs of climate change-driven destruction have made vulnerable nations poorer by about one-fifth.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Climate migration is putting cities on alert

In climate-vulnerable nations, city mayors say they need cash and a bigger say in forging policies to deal with displacement caused by drought, storms and flooding.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Kerry: World ‘cooked’ if we carry on with coal

The U.S. envoy on climate change, John Kerry, has warned that the war in Ukraine must not be used as an excuse to prolong global reliance on coal.

BBC

Nigeria’s disappearing forests causing fears

Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, has quietly lost almost 10 percent of its tree cover over the past two decades, leaving those who depend on it fearing for the future.

Reuters

Photo of the Day

A doctor with the International Medical Corps examines a young boy at a mobile health clinic in Pakistan. Pakistan’s polio eradication campaign is in disarray after an alarming jump in cases last week. Eight polio cases have now been reported in children over the past month, officials said. (Photo by DFID/Vicki Francis) Photo used under CC BY

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