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A woman walks over oil pipelines in Nigeria. In 2020 and 2021, the country had a combined total of 822 oils spills, resulting in 28,003 barrels spewing into the environment, according to Nigeria’s National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency. Locals have linked most of the spills to equipment failure. (Photo by takandapiss) Photo used under CC BY

Oil spills in Niger Delta bring poverty to farmers

The Niger Delta region in Nigeria has all-year-round agricultural production, but it also houses oil and gas reserves; oil exploration has turned the region into one of the most polluted places on Earth, ruining farmlands and exacerbating poverty, according to industry insiders.

Al Jazeera

Nigerian oil workers threaten to strike if government doesn’t stem theft

Euronews

Protests erupt in Indonesia over fuel price hike

Thousands of protesters have rallied in Indonesia’s biggest cities, seeking to pile pressure on the government to reverse the country’s first subsidized fuel price hike in eight years amid soaring inflation.

Al Jazeera

Flood-hit Pakistan needs ‘massive’ help from world

The UN secretary-general said the world owes Pakistan “massive” help in recovering from the devastating floods, as the country bears less blame than other nations for climate change, which experts say contributed to the deluge.

Associated Press

Cost of climate change rises; UN urges compensation

Associated Press

S. African women face shortage of birth control

South Africa is facing a shortage of birth control stock at public health facilities, threatening the reproductive health of women and families as healthcare workers are forced to give alternative birth control.

AfricaNews

Bolivian coca farmers burn disputed market

Thousands of coca farmers marched into Bolivia’s capital and set fire to what they claimed was an illegal new market for the leaf.

Reuters

Sri Lanka’s economic crisis upending daily life

Millions of Sri Lankans are struggling to secure two square meals a day and afford critical medicines and essential goods amid the nation’s acute economic turmoil.

Deutsche Welle

Fishermen struggle for livelihoods in Sri Lanka

YouTube

HUMAN RIGHTS

Oman fails to stop migrant worker trafficking

Oman is failing to protect migrant domestic workers who are victims of human trafficking, trapped in abusive households and subjected to physical and sexual violence with no access to justice or a safe route home.

Guardian

Sudan says tribal clashes displace thousands

Tribal clashes in Sudan’s southeastern Blue Nile province have displaced thousands so far, the state-run news agency reported, with a total of 21,189 people fleeing to the north in a neighboring province.

Associated Press

Fake nun arrested for child trafficking in Nigeria

Nigerian police have arrested a suspected fake nun who is allegedly involved in child theft, rescuing 15 children from her residence.

AfricaNews

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Dominican president bars Haitian ex-leader

The president of the Dominican Republic has barred Haiti’s former interim prime minister, who is now an aspiring presidential candidate, from entering the country.

ABC News

Haitian protesters call for the PM to resign

YouTube

Killing of Mexican workers reflects cartel cruelty

The killing of two utility workers in northern Mexico may be related to the scorched-earth tactics of warring drug cartels, Mexico’s president said.

ABC News

Mexicans protest record violence, condemn the president

YouTube

Iran has enough uranium for a nuclear bomb

Iran’s stock of uranium enriched to up to 60%, close to weapons-grade, has grown to enough, if enriched further, for a nuclear bomb.

Reuters

Myanmar’s junta leader meets Putin finally

Myanmar’s military chief and coup leader, Min Aung Hlaing, has held his first, and long-awaited, meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

US chip-export ban throws wrench into China AI

The development of China’s artificial intelligence sector is expected to be slowed in the coming few years by the United States’ new ban on exports of several high-end chips made by Nvidia and AMD, Chinese IT experts say.

Asia Times Online

Apps help Ghana’s farmers get fairer prices

Newly developed farming apps have brought relief to farmers in Ghana who struggle to access fair market prices. Developers hope the apps will soon also be used on a wider scale to tackle food insecurity on the continent.

Deutsche Welle

Newly discovered planet may be suitable for life

An international team of scientists says it has discovered two new “super-Earth” type planets about 100 light-years away, one of which may be suitable for life.

NPR

Saudis warn Netflix for violating ‘Islamic values’

Gulf Arab states have demanded that Netflix remove all content deemed to violate “Islamic and societal values and principles."

BBC

Egypt demands Netflix, others adhere to ‘societal values’

AfricaNews

GLOBAL HEALTH

New malaria vaccine comes a step closer

The co-inventor of a vaccine that could eradicate malaria said he hopes it could be approved by as early as next year after the latest trial results were successful.

Guardian

Nearly 8M kids lost a parent to the pandemic

A new international study estimates that from January 1, 2020, to May, 1, 2022, nearly 8 million kids worldwide lost a parent or primary caregiver to a pandemic-related cause.

NPR

WHO launches drive to fight bacterial meningitis

The World Health Organization said it is launching a $1.5 billion campaign, hopefully including a new vaccine, to eliminate outbreaks of bacterial meningitis across Africa by 2030.

ABC News

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GOOD NEWS

Project treating Uganda’s diabetic children

Health facilities across Uganda are participating in a new scheme to help diabetic patients. The foundation uses Uganda’s network of motorcycle taxis to deliver insulin and other supplies to remote patients.

Guardian

Rescued dolphins released back into ocean

Three bottlenose dolphins that were rescued from a resort hotel in Indonesia are now swimming free after they were rehabilitated by a specialized animal sanctuary.

FOX News

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Group aids victims of flooding in Pakistan

The Evangelical Christian group Samaritan’s Purse is providing emergency relief to thousands of families in Pakistan, where floods have killed more than 1,200 people.

Christian Post

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

UN: World regressing in human development

For the first time in its 32-year history, the UNDP Human Development Index, which measures a nation’s health, education, and standard of living, has declined for two years in a row.

Euronews

Israel to open a trade mission in Morocco

Israel will open a trade mission in Morocco, the Israeli economy minister announced at an economic conference supporting business ties between the two countries.

i24 News

Empty shelves, rising prices worry Tunisians

Food shortages are worsening in Tunisia with empty shelves in supermarkets and bakeries, adding to popular discontent at high prices and risking unrest as the government tries to stave off a crisis in public finances.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

At least 16 dead in Uganda rains, landslides

At least 16 people died in western Uganda after heavy rains caused a landslide, according to tweets from the Uganda Red Cross.

CNN

Water scarcity hits Iraq’s Fertile Crescent

Water levels in the country’s great rivers Euphrates and Tigris have dropped by half. Government officials say the culprit is the upstream proliferation of hydrology projects by neighboring Turkey and Iran.

Guardian

S. Africa sends cheetahs to India, Mozambique

South Africa is flying cheetahs to India and Mozambique as part of ambitious efforts to reintroduce the distinctively spotted cats in regions where their population has dwindled.

Al Jazeera

Drought, disease threaten date palms in Africa

In an oasis notorious as the hottest place in Africa, Tunisian farmers say they are fighting a losing battle with drought and disease that is driving many to abandon plantations where they grow some of the world’s finest dates.

Reuters

Photo of the Day

Local women help unload humanitarian aid from a World Food Program helicopter in Mozambique. Africa generates less than 3% of all greenhouse gas emissions, but experts say it is particularly vulnerable to climate change. Wealthy nations say they’ll do more to help African nations cope with climate shocks. (Photo by US Africa Command) Photo used under CC BY

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