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Kenyan women pour rations of vegetable oil for local villagers affected by drought. Climate-fueled hunger is a “stark demonstration of global inequality” because the least-polluting countries are the most affected by droughts, floods and other extreme weather events, Oxfam said. (Photo by Scott Kelleher/AusAID) Photo used under CC BY

Climate change hotspots afflicted by acute hunger

The number of people facing acute hunger has more than doubled in the world’s climate change hotspots, an Oxfam report shows. Extreme hunger has risen by 123% in the 10 countries with the highest number of UN aid appeals driven by extreme weather events.

Deutsche Welle

Kids, women hit by disease in Pakistan’s floods

Children and women are becoming more vulnerable as tens of thousands of people suffer from water-borne and infectious diseases in flood-hit Pakistan, government data showed.

Reuters

Pakistan floods ‘made up to 50% worse by global heating

Guardian

UN: 345 million marching toward starvation globally

The world is facing “a global emergency of unprecedented magnitude,” with up to 345 million people marching toward starvation, more than double the number prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN warned.

Associated Press

Children the forgotten victims of war crimes

More than 452 million children worldwide live with war. Their injuries and deaths are rarely investigated, and crimes against them rarely punished, Save the Children said.

Deutsche Welle

‘Mass burial site containing 440 graves’ found in Ukraine

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Sri Lanka’s crisis pushes ethnic Tamils to brink

Sri Lanka’s economic crisis is a second blow for the district of Mullaitivu, where the mostly Tamil population had been ravaged by a 26-year civil war. Many residents work as laborers to get by, but now cannot, as no one is hiring.

Reuters

Libyan militia detains hundreds of Chadians

Hundreds of Chadians are being rounded up and detained on the streets of a Libyan town by a militia group in retaliation for the Chad government’s arrest of four Libyan men on suspicion of poaching endangered animals.

Guardian

HUMAN RIGHTS

Taliban ‘looking into’ video of executions

The Taliban are “looking into” a video circulating on social media that appears to show its fighters executing captured members of an Afghan insurgent group, a government spokesman said.

i24 News

Israeli troops kill teenager in West Bank raid

Israeli forces killed a 17-year-old Palestinian in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials said, as troops operated in the area a day after an attack killed a military officer.

Associated Press

Pastoralist attack survivors unsettled in Nigeria

Nigeria is experiencing a number of clashes stemming from disagreements between Indigenous Yoruba farmers and nomadic Fulani herdsmen. At the root of the crisis is cattle grazing on farmlands.

Al Jazeera

Nigerians worried as inflation hits 17-year high

Associated Press

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Ethiopian air strike hits northern Tigray region

The capital of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, Mekele, was hit by an air strike a Tigrayan rebel spokesman and a hospital official said.

AfricaNews

Afghanistan blames border clash on Pakistan

The Taliban government in Afghanistan has blamed the Pakistan army’s attempt to build a security post at their border as the reason behind a cross-border skirmish, causing multiple deaths on both sides, including at least three Pakistani soldiers.

Al Jazeera

Pakistan, Taliban say border crossfire caused casualties

ABC News

Philippines protests China’s recent moves

Officials in the Philippines have protested Chinese actions in the South China Sea over four dozen times in just over two months, according to a Bloomberg report.

Newsweek

Violence stalks run up to crucial Brazil election

Political violence has gripped Brazil under its rabble-rousing president, exemplified by a recent murder in a remote Amazon town, his political opponents say, sending shock waves through the nation.

Guardian

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Twitter may have hired a Chinese spy

Twitter executives put profits ahead of security, leaving the door open to infiltration by foreign agents and hackers, the company’s former head of security told Congress.

NPR

Fireball in night sky was most likely space junk

A fireball seen shooting through the skies from Scotland and Northern Ireland was likely to have been space junk, experts have said.

BBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

Africa left behind as monkeypox drops in West

With monkeypox cases subsiding in the West, scientists say now is the time to prioritize stopping the virus in Africa, but the attention has had little impact, as no rich countries have shared vaccines or treatments with Africa.

Associated Press

WHO: COVID deaths at lowest since March 2020

The number of coronavirus deaths worldwide was the lowest reported in the pandemic since March 2020, the WHO said, marking what could be a turning point in the global outbreak.

CBS News

Africa still seeing low COVID-19 vaccinate rates

The COVID-19 pandemic is still a threat in Africa given the low vaccination rates, according to the acting head of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

AfricaNews

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GOOD NEWS

Muslim, Jewish leaders work for dialogue

The Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions gathered Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Buddhist and Taoist religious leaders who call for greater interfaith efforts to combat poverty, climate change and more.

i24 News

Lebanese, Syrians join forces to fight wildfires

Wildfires are responsible for 26% of tree loss in Lebanon over the past 20 years. Syrian refugees in Lebanon have joined forces with locals to fight the fires.

Guardian

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

NGO gives food, cash gifts to Nigerian widows

An NGO in Nigeria wants the government to come up with policies that will address the plights of widows in the society.

YouTube

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

US frees $3.5B in frozen funds to aid Afghans

The U.S. State Department and Treasury Department have set up a fund to disburse some of the $3.5 billion of Afghan central bank reserves that were frozen after the American military withdrawal and Taliban takeover.

CBS News

Fuel prices jump in Kenya after subsidies cut

Fuel prices in Kenya surged to record highs after the new government slashed subsidies, piling on misery for a population already facing deep economic hardship.

AfricaNews

Sierra Leone women turn rice into wealth

Agriculture accounts for almost half of Sierra Leone’s GDP. Subsistence farming is a key industry, but a group of women in the country’s southern region have managed to turn theirs into a profitable business.

BBC

EU ban too feeble to fight global forced labor

The EU has released a new regulatory proposal taking aim at forced labor. Though the proposal was welcomed by labor rights organizations, critics point to deficiencies that might cut into its effectiveness.

Deutsche Welle

ENVIRONMENT

Death toll in Pakistan floods nears 1,500

Unprecedented floods that have submerged huge swathes of Pakistan have killed nearly 1,500 people, data showed, as authorities said hundreds of thousands of people were still sleeping in the open air after the disaster.

Reuters

Pakistan reopens highway to speed up aid

ABC News

Scale of destruction due to Pakistan floods nearly ‘incomprehensible’

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134 dead, homes wiped out in Sudan floods

Flooding in Sudan killed at least 134 people and destroyed tens of thousands of homes during the country’s ongoing wet season, police said.

i24 News

Temperatures rising faster in Middle East

Temperatures are rising nearly twice as fast as the global average in the east Mediterranean and Middle East, an international team of scientists has warned.

The Independent

Mountain glacier in Chile’s Patagonia collapses

Higher temperatures and rainfall that weaken ice walls caused part of a hanging glacier to break off at a national park in Chile’s Patagonia region in an event captured on video by tourists.

Reuters

DRC fishermen turn to tourism as fish decline

Basket fishing was once the lifeblood of the Wagenya community in northeastern DRC. But fish numbers in the mighty Congo river have dwindled in recent years, and the fishermen see little help from the government.

AfricaNews

Photo of the Day

A man of the Toubou people, a Saharan ethnic group, rides a camel in the Ennedi Mountains of northeastern Chad. (Photo by David Stanley) Photo used under CC BY

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