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A NATO physician’s assistant demonstrates how to properly hold a baby during birthing classes in Afghanistan. The country suffers the world’s highest maternity and neonatal mortality rates, but since the Taliban takeover, the situation has worsened; the neonatal mortality rate could rise to 10% of all live births, the UN said. (Photo by NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan) Photo used under CC BY

Newborn deaths double in Afghanistan province

A year into Taliban rule, the number of newborn deaths in one Afghanistan province has nearly doubled, local doctors say, as foreign funding for healthcare was frozen last year. Women are suffering; some babies are beating the odds and surviving, but tragically, many are not.

BBC

Taliban blocking Afghan evacuations to Germany

Deutsche welle

Malian refugees fight wildfires in the Sahara

A volunteer force of Malian refugees, escaping an upsurge of violence and insecurity in their home country, work tirelessly to put out fires that threaten homes and land in Mauritania.

Guardian

Somalia’s gas price hikes fuel logging, deforestation

More Somalis are turning to charcoal as an affordable energy option due to a sharp rise in gas prices. The demand is fueling unsustainable levels of logging, and accelerating climate change amid the country’s worst drought in decades, experts say.

Guardian

Gaza hospitals strained after Israeli strikes

Health officials warn of an imminent stop of medical services in Gaza due to a lack of fuel for generators in health facilities, as the only power plant shut down after Israel stopped the planned transport of fuel into the territory.

Al Jazeera

Cease-fire between Palestinians, Israel takes effect in Gaza City

YouTube

N. Korea offers Russia fighters for Ukraine war

North Korea is ready to send 100,000 soldiers to its ally, Russia, as assistance in the invasion of Ukraine, a Russian military expert said.

The Independent

Nancy Pelosi vows support to denuclearize North Korea

YouTube

Millions in India die every year due to poor diet

70% of Indians can’t afford a healthy diet, and 1.7 million die every year due to diseases attributable to poor diet, according to a report.

Times of India

HUMAN RIGHTS

Uganda suspends LGBT charity in ‘witch hunt’

The Ugandan government has suspended the country’s leading gay rights organization, accusing it of operating illegally in the east African nation, in a move campaigners condemned as “a clear witch hunt.”

Guardian

Former Uganda dictator expelled thousands of Ugandan Asians

YouTube

Mali army: 17 soldiers, 4 civilians killed in attack

Armed fighters with a suspected affiliation to the ISIS group have killed 17 Malian soldiers and four civilians during an attack in the country’s south, Mali’s army has said.

Al Jazeera

Pakistani Taliban leader killed in IED attack

A senior founding leader of the Pakistani Taliban was killed in a targeted attack, according to two sources within the group’s leadership.

CNN

Singapore’s drug executions under scrutiny

After a two-year pause due to COVID-19, Singapore has returned to executions this year at what seems to some like a reckless pace; already eight people have been hanged, most of whom were convicted for drug offenses.

Al Jazeera

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Sri Lankans rally against protests crackdown

Hundreds of Sri Lankans have rallied against a government crackdown, which uses emergency laws against peaceful protesters who are demanding answers to the economic crisis.

Associated Press

Chad’s junta, rebel groups sign pledge in Qatar

Chad’s military government and over 40 rebel groups signed a pledge in Qatar ahead of planned national reconciliation talks.

Associated Press

Colombian president wants global drugs rethink

Colombia’s new president wants a fresh global strategy to combat illegal drugs, saying the “war on drugs” has been a failure. Hundreds of thousands of people died in Colombia’s civil war, fueled in part by the narcotics trade.

BBC

Gustavo Petro sworn in as Colombia’s first leftist president

Deutsche Welle

Ivory Coast’s president pardons predecessor

Ivory Coast’s president has pardoned his predecessor and longtime rival as part of a reconciliation drive ahead of elections in 2025.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Spyware huge threat to global human rights

The mercenary spyware industry represents “one of the greatest contemporary threats to civil society, human rights and democracy”, a leading cybersecurity expert warns.

Guardian

Google bets on Africa with latest megaproject

Equiano is a subsea internet cable financed by Google. Stretching from Portugal to South Arica, the cable is designed to deliver high-speed broadband along Africa’s west coast.

CNN

Arabic anti-LGBTQ campaign viral on Twitter

An anti-LGBTQ campaign is making waves on social media in the Middle East, after promoting the idea that there are only two genders. Its creation follows a number of political controversies, particularly in Saudi Arabia.

Euronews

GLOBAL HEALTH

Climate change aggravating human pathogens

A distressing discovery has been made on how global warming affects known infectious diseases. Climate hazards are expected to aggravate 58% of all known human pathogens, according to a study.

ABC News

Sewage surveillance labs join monkeypox hunt

The same wastewater surveillance techniques that have emerged as a critical tool in the early detection of COVID-19 outbreaks are being adapted for monitoring the spread of monkeypox across U.S. communities.

NPR

Lyme disease vaccine in its final clinical trial

A new vaccine for Lyme disease is in its final clinical trial. If it were to gain regulators’ approval, it would become the only Lyme disease vaccine available for humans in the U.S.

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

Endangered birds laying eggs on Galapagos

A critically endangered bird, the mangrove finch, is making a comeback on the Galapagos Islands, experts said, as they found 12 breeding pairs on the archipelago.

Newsweek

Wolf packs spreading rapidly across the Alps

The number of wolf packs in the Alps has risen over 25% in one year, a wolf-protection group said, as animal rights activists work to increase the population, which was nearly eradicated in Europe in the 20th century.

Deutsche Welle

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Backyard gardens empower women in Ghana

Alberta Akosa’s NGO, Agrihouse Foundation, encourages women in Ghana to plant their own backyard gardens, allowing them to feed their families and secure an income.

Deutsche Welle

Migrant rescue NGOs call for help from EU

NGOs operating rescue boats in the Mediterranean called for the EU to resume search and rescue activities to help them respond to the summer influx of migrants.

AfricaNews

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Sequencing Africa’s ‘yam belt’ for food security

Yams provide sustenance and livelihoods across West Africa, but conditions are deteriorating just as the prices of other staples soar. A molecular geneticist hopes to change that by creating more adaptable plants.

Reuters

Laos crisis intensifies amid spiraling debt

Laos’ economy has been on the brink of collapse due to a spiraling debt crisis; foreign and domestic debt has ballooned to more than $14.5 billion, according to the World Bank, with half of its foreign debt owed to China.

Deutsche Welle

Sierra Leone passes laws to help landowners

Sierra Leone’s parliament passed two laws that will protect the rights of rural landowners and women against land grabs by big mining and agribusiness firms, lawyers say.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Myanmar forests bear cost of rare earth mines

Myanmar is the source of several key metallic elements known as rare earths, which are vital to manufacturers worldwide, but their use is unsustainable and leads to human rights abuses, an AP investigation found.

Associated Press

Rare earth metals essential to modern life; China dominates the market

YouTube

Panama Canal grapples with climate change

Global warming and extreme weather patterns are affecting the Panama Canal’s water supply, as well as access to drinking water for millions of Panamanians, a journalist said.

BBC

Climate crisis amplifying disasters worldwide

The climate crisis has intensified risk conditions for extreme weather events across the world. Erratic seasonal swings have caused floods, wildfires, heatwaves and droughts on an unprecedented scale.

Deutsche Welle

Alps glaciers melting faster as heatwaves hit

Melting glaciers in the Alps are on track for their highest mass losses in decades, according to data, due to two early summer heatwaves, as well as little snowfall in winter.

BBC

Photo of the Day

Two men work tirelessly at a stone mine in the western region of Sierra Leone. The West African country has a history of sometimes deadly conflict between local communities and foreign companies such as mining firms; locals have complained of environmental damage, losing their livelihoods and not being fairly compensated for their land. (Photo by MSc Environment & Sustainable Development) Photo used under CC BY

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