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Sudan’s food aid at risk of running dry, UN warns

Food aid to war-torn Sudan could run out within months unless hundreds of millions of additional dollars are pledged, the United Nations has warned.

Al Jazeera

Sudan’s war has left the country’s economy shattered

Africa News

Iran’s crackdown quells protests through fear

Iran’s regime has treated these protests as an existential threat. Its crackdown seems to be working, and protesters are now thought to be largely staying at home, for fear of being shot or arrested.

Yahoo! News

Iran’s protests appear increasingly smothered after a deadly crackdown

NPR

No sign of new protests in Iran as a hard-line cleric calls for executions

Associated Press

Shah’s son confident Iranian rulers will fall

The son of Iran’s late shah said he was confident that mass protests would topple the Islamic republic and urged international action, as President Donald Trump holds off on intervening in the unrest.

France 24

Son of late shah wants to lead Iran into a new era

YouTube

HUMAN RIGHTS

Asylum laws ‘toxic’ to refugees’ mental health

Many refugee children are spending their childhoods living in limbo, and experts warn of lifelong mental health impacts.

Context

Asylum seekers brace for bleak 2026 as countries clamp down

Context

Murder led to a better deal for garment workers

After a 21-year-old employee was raped and killed by her supervisor in 2021, campaigners ensured conditions at the factory were overhauled. But its order book never recovered.

Guardian

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Protesters in Yemen call for a separate state

A large crowd of protesters rallied in southern Yemen to call for the secession of the south and to show support for an Emirati-backed southern separatist group more than a week after it dismantled itself.

Associated Press

Young Ugandans want stability, opportunities

Tension rises in Uganda as 81-year-old Yoweri Museveni seeks to extend his four-decade rule in a country where 70% of people are under age 35.

Al Jazeera

Uganda’s tense election hit by widespread delays

Deutsche Welle

Trump’s ceasefire plan faces great uncertainty

The White House says it is moving into the second phase of President Donald Trump’s Gaza ceasefire plan — breathing new life into a proposal that aims to rebuild the war-ravaged area and reshape the wider Middle East.

Yahoo! News

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

AI introduced in elementary schools in India

School children in India are to be taught how to use AI. As part of a new education program, 250 million students and 10 million teachers will be prepared for a digital future.

Deutsche Welle

Study finds first evidence of math reasoning

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a new study has found.

CNN

Free Starlink access a boon to Iran protesters

Iranian demonstrators’ ability to get details of nationwide protests out to the world has been given a strong boost, with SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service dropping its fees.

Associated Press

GLOBAL HEALTH

Insecticide-laced wraps cut infant malaria cases

Researchers in Uganda have found that treating wraps with the insect repellent permethrin cut rates of malaria in the infants carried in them by two-thirds.

Guardian

US study on hep B vaccines in Africa canceled

The controversial U.S.-funded study on hepatitis B vaccines among newborns in Guinea-Bissau has been halted, according to Yap Boum, a senior official at the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Women prep to take India sports to next level

India has been experiencing major growth in women’s sports in recent years. This is being fueled by investment from both the public and private sector — as well as many role models.

Deutsche Welle

Nigerian woman rethinking recycling in cities

Nigeria’s Rita Idehai, a geoscientist and social entrepreneur in Abuja, has built West Africa’s first locally manufactured reverse vending machine — rewarding users via a mobile app for handing in waste plastic bottles.

Deutsche Welle

AID, NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Aid cuts hit women clearing Zimbabwe’s mines

Hundreds of women hired by charities to clear deadly landmines across Zimbabwe are now struggling to survive after the United States and other big donors slashed foreign aid — and with it, axed their jobs.

Context

International aid cuts hobble drive to declare Zimbabwe mine-free

Context

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Iran’s failing economy spurred first protests

The collapse of the rial and soaring prices led to the first protest by shopkeepers in Tehran before demonstrations against Iran’s clerical rulers swelled.

Al Jazeera

Numbers behind Iran’s economic implosion

The Independent

ENVIRONMENT

Over 100 dead after floods in southern Africa

Torrential rain and widespread flooding have claimed the lives of more than 100 people across South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, with authorities issuing stark warnings of further severe weather expected.

The Independent

Farmers in war-torn Yemen fight climate crisis

With the flow of aid plummeting and water shortages becoming ever more serious, farmers and aid workers tell of the struggle to survive as Yemen’s more than decade-long civil war drags on.

The Independent

This casing for electronics dissolves in water

As the world’s appetite for electronic devices grows ever bigger, the other side of the coin — e-waste — is raising alarms. Aquafade, a new type of plastic casing for electronics, fully dissolves in water in about six hours.

CNN

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An Apatani elder in northeast India. (Photo by Rod Waddington) Photo used under CC BY

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