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Two Malawian girls draw water from a nearby well to do laundry. A recent IPC Chronic Food Insecurity report estimates that 5.8 million people in Malawi face moderate or severe food insecurity due to abject poverty and recurrent shocks. (Photo by Lars Plougmann) Photo used under CC BY

Children driven to crime on the streets of Malawi

Twelve years after passing an act to protect homeless children, Malawi still has an estimated 15,000 living on the streets, often leading to a life of crime. Campaigners and police say these numbers are rising as growing food insecurity puts pressure on families.

Guardian

Is Myanmar’s military starting to lose the war?

Asia Times Online

Myanmar‘s junta uses airstrikes as ’collective punishment’

YouTube

Top 10 neglected crises are all unfolding in Africa

Ten African nations top a list of countries where people’s suffering from displacement and conflict is internationally neglected, according to an annual ranking by the Norwegian Refugee Council. Congo is the most neglected country on the list.

Deutsche Welle

Yemen’s warring parties agree to extend truce

The UN said Yemen’s warring parties have agreed to renew a nationwide truce for another two months. The development offered a glimmer of hope for the country, though significant obstacles remain to lasting peace.

Associated Press

Niger Delta’s coastal erosion frustrates locals

Residents of the oil-rich region of Nigeria say they are losing their houses and farmlands to coastal erosion. Locals are pressuring the government to address the situation.

Al Jazeera

South African court to rule on offshore oil exploration

ABC News

North Korea now heads UN disarmament body

North Korea, which is under sanctions for developing nuclear weapons in defiance of United Nations Security Council Resolutions, has taken over as head of a UN body aimed at striking disarmament deals.

Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Rwanda accused of stalking, harassing exiles

Rwanda has been accused of being among the worst perpetrators of “transnational repression” in the U.S., stalking, harassing and threatening exiles there, according to a new report.

Guardian

Families demand reform after Ecuador riots

The government has acknowledged the deaths of around 400 prisoners in a series of riots in Ecuador’s penitentiaries since February of last year. But family members believe the real number is much higher.

Al Jazeera

DR Congo home to 5.5M internally displaced

DR Congo is home to more than 5.5 million internally displaced people, the third highest number in the world.

Al Jazeera

Indonesia’s LGBTQ community fears crackdown

Indonesia‘s parliament is currently debating on how to rework the country’s criminal code, and LGBTQ rights activists are worried new legal standards could be used to penalize and persecute same-sex couples.

Deutsche Welle

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Libya slides back toward violence and chaos

Recent fighting underscored the fragility of Libya’s relative peace that has prevailed for more than a year. Now, observers say that momentum to reunify the country has been lost and its future is looking grim.

Associated Press

UN condemns piracy in the Gulf of Guinea

The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution strongly condemning piracy, armed robbery and hostage-taking in the Gulf of Guinea, the world’s top hotspot for attacks on shipping and seafarers.

Associated Press

S. Africa leader accused of kidnapping, bribes

South Africa’s former spy chief Arthur Fraser has accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of kidnapping and bribery in a case he has registered with the police.

BBC

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Sri Lankans turning to social media for help

Sri Lankans are using groups on Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter to offer mutual aid as shops run out of basics.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka runs out of medicine

Guardian

India’s VPN rules spark fears of online privacy

Cybersecurity directive requiring virtual private network providers to retain users’ raise concerns that activists, whistleblowers and dissenters will be at greater risk of surveillance.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Trove of ancient Egyptian coffins, statues found

Archaeologists working near Cairo have uncovered hundreds of ancient Egyptian coffins and bronze statues of deities.

Guardian

GLOBAL HEALTH

Africans see inequity in monkeypox response

The resources to slow the disease’s spread have long been available, just not to the Africans who have dealt with it for decades.

Associated Press

Covid in North Korea is likely ‘getting worse’

The World Health Organization has cast doubts on North Korea’s claims of progress in its fight against a COVID-19 outbreak, saying it believes the situation is getting worse, not better, amid an absence of independent data.

CNN

Big tobacco focusing on growth within Africa

The era of big tobacco is coming to an end: there is an unequivocal drop in global smoking rates. Concealed in the figures, however, is a plan to turn tobacco back into a growth industry by focusing on Africa.

Guardian

Latin America’s struggle with legalized abortion

Argentina made history by becoming the largest Latin American country to legalize abortion. Although now legal, finding a doctor who is willing to perform the procedure is a different matter altogether.

Deutsche Welle

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (James Sweet):

Hungary’s embargo exemption is another gesture toward autocracies

Washington Examiner

Column (Nhial Deng):

Refugees in Kenya’s Kakuma and Dadaab camps are still in limbo

Al Jazeera

Column (Chris Fitzgerald):

Why climate change spells danger for South Asia

Asia Times Online

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GOOD NEWS

‘Trolley school’ helping Phillipines students

Young teachers in the southern Philippines have introduced a “trolley school” to help underprivileged children. They launched the initiative during the pandemic lockdown.

Deutsche Welle

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Boy bringing clean water to Honduran villages

Clean water is a necessity many people around the world don’t have access to. Grayson Stunkel, 10, from Wisconsin, is working to raise money to bring clean water to villages in Honduras.

WEAU News

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

War in Ukraine adds to price hikes in Africa

The African Development Bank is already reporting a 45 percent increase in wheat prices on the continent, making everything from couscous in Mauritania to the fried donuts sold in Congo more expensive.

Associated Press

Shortage of oil refineries haunts Africa as fuel prices rocket

Reuters

Zimbabwe’s inflation continues to spiral out of control, with it now standing at over 132%

YouTube

Sri Lanka seeking $3B from IMF fund facility

Sri Lanka is in talks with the International Monetary Fund to borrow at least $3 billion via the lender’s extended fund facility, sources familiar with the matter said.

Reuters

Taliban’s campaign to eradicate poppy crops

Afghanistan‘s Taliban have begun a campaign to eradicate poppy cultivation, aiming to wipeout the country’s production of opium and heroin, even as farmers fear their livelihoods will be ruined at a time of growing poverty.

CBS News

ENVIRONMENT

UN warns Ukraine war overshadowing climate

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the Ukraine war is diverting attention away from climate change, while at the same time showcasing the world’s “suicidal” dependence on fossil fuels.

ABC News

Brazil’s leader shifts stance on environment

The Brazilian far-right leader has appeared to make a U-turn, signing an environmental decree that establishes higher fines for deforestation, illegal logging, burning, fishing and hunting.

CNN

Clean energy gains for poorest threatened

Hundreds of millions of people are projected to remain without electricity by 2030 as concerns grow over the prospect of meeting Sustainable Development Goal 7 on access to green and affordable energy.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Hurricane Agatha kills 11 in south Mexico

Hurricane Agatha caused flooding and mudslides that killed at least 11 people and left 20 missing, the governor of the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, said.

NBCNews.com

Photo of the Day

A Yemeni child stares at the aftermath of a Saudi-led coalition airstrike. A two-month long truce in Yemen’s civil war, where regional powers are fighting via proxies, has been extended for another two months. The war has killed more than 150,000 people and displaced millions of civilians, according to the UN. (Photo by Felton Davis) Photo used under CC BY

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