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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

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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

Lebanese army arrests 64 sailing for Europe

The Lebanese military has arrested 64 people trying to sail from northern Lebanon in an attempt to get to Europe.

Al Jazeera

Migrant caravan sets out in southern Mexico

Several thousand migrants set out walking in the rain in southern Mexico, tired of waiting to normalize their status in a region with little work and still far from their ultimate goal of reaching the United States.

Associated Press

Myanmar military accused of torching homes

Myanmar junta troops have torched hundreds of buildings during a three-day raid in the country’s north, local media and residents said, as the military struggles to crush resistance to its rule.

Guardian

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Prophet Muhammad row deepens India’s woes

India’s diplomatic nightmare over controversial comments made by two senior officials of the country’s ruling party about the Prophet Muhammad is showing no signs of ending.

BBC

Mali junta adopts transition to democratic rule

Mali’s military junta will take 24 months from March 2022 to restore civilian rule after an August 2020 coup, its spokesman said, the latest move in negotiations with regional bloc ECOWAS to lift sanctions crippling the economy.

Reuters

Kazakhs strip founding figure of privileges

Kazakhs have overwhelmingly voted for constitutional changes in a referendum after deadly unrest ended the founding leader’s three-decade grip on Central Asia’s richest country, the election commission says.

Guardian

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Iran rebels remove websites, security cameras

Iranian dissidents took credit for the reported hacking of thousands of surveillance cameras around Tehran and dozens of government websites, as rebels ramp up their efforts against the regime.

FOX News

Sri Lanka’s economic crisis threatens IT firms

Pre-pandemic, Sri Lanka’s IT industry was the fifth-largest export earner for the island nation, but those plans are now in jeopardy.

Al Jazeera

GLOBAL HEALTH

Singapore‘s dengue ’emergency’ is an omen

Singapore says it is facing a dengue “emergency.” Experts are warning that changes in the global climate mean such outbreaks are likely to become more common.

CNN

Indian heatwaves threatening maternal health

With climate change exacerbating extreme heat in many parts of the world, experts warn that the impact on maternal and neonatal health could be devastating.

Deutsche Welle

India wants to be the ‘pharmacy of the world’

India has embarked on an ambitious plan to cut dependence on China for key raw materials as it seeks to become self-sufficient in its quest to be the “pharmacy of the world.”

CNBC

Network helps Ukraine refugees find abortions

Many Ukrainian women who were driven out of their homes by the war have found themselves in neighboring Poland, where abortion is severely limited. Even helping someone access an abortion can result in a jail sentence.

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

How a young Black tech founder beat the odds

As a young, Black entrepreneur with few industry contacts, Timothy Armoo, 27, has more than beaten the odds to raise investment, scale and then sell his start-up.

BBC

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Sri Lanka needs $5 billion, help from China

Sri Lanka will need $5 billion over the next six months to ensure basic living standards, and is renegotiating the terms of a swap worth $1.5 billion with China.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Why Sri Lanka is collapsing: the coming global food crisis

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ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Russian blockade threatens world food supply

Russia’s troops aren’t only squeezing Ukraine by land, they are also cutting off its access to the sea, and as Ukraine has long been dubbed the breadbasket of Europe, that blockade is causing global food shortages.

CBS News

World Bank dims outlook for global economy amid Russia war

Associated Press

UN: Climate shocks, war fuel multiple looming food crises

Associated Press

Yemenis face daily struggle to survive in Taiz

Residents hope U.N.-sponsored talks between Yemen’s warring parties to re-open roads in Taiz will allow people in the city and surrounding areas to go to work and school and facilitate the flow of aid and goods.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Nations fail to keep up with climate crisis costs

The amount of money needed to aid communities in the face of extreme weather-related emergencies has increased by more than 800 percent in the past two decades, new research shows.

CNN

Ex-UN envoy: Africa should exploit natural gas

African countries should be able to exploit their vast natural gas reserves despite the urgent need to cut global greenhouse gas emissions, as the continent’s need for energy is so great.

Guardian

Arctic global heating threatens Siberian tundra

Researchers have used computer modeling to predict “dramatic losses” of the Siberian tundra by the middle of the millennium due to temperature increases in the Arctic.

Deutsche Welle

Kenyan herders fight to stop destructive plant

To the largely pastoralist community living within a Kenyan conservancy, the prickly pear cactus is a deadly enemy. It lacerates the mouths of livestock and causes blindness.

Guardian

Photo of the Day

Two children strike a totaled vehicle during the 2010 Kashmir unrest. Now, after the conviction of Yasin Malik, a Kashmiri pro-separatist leader who renounced violence in 1994, there is fear of more uncertainty and unrest in the contested region, according to a coalition of pro-India parties in the region. (Photo by Kashmir Global) Photo used under CC BY

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