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A displaced Tigrayan woman stares into the distance. (Photo by Adane Firde/IOM Ethiopia) Photo used under CC BY

Hunger, death remain in Tigray a year after aid cuts

In Ethiopia, once the largest recipient of USAID funds in sub-Saharan Africa, people say they are left with “little humanitarian support” a year after Trump demolished the agency’s work and cut funding across the globe.

Al Jazeera

Rights group raises alarm over detentions, disappearances in Tigray

allAfrica.com

Eyewitness describes Iran protest crackdown

An Iranian woman who witnessed the bloody crackdown on protests in Iran has described how her neighborhood turned into a “war zone” as security forces opened fire at crowds with live ammunition.

Yahoo! News

Activists report that Iran’s crackdown on protests has killed at least 5K

YouTube

Iranian prosecutor denies Trump’s claim 800 prisoners were spared execution

Associated Press

Anxiety, anger and hope in Syria’s Damascus

Damascus breathed a sigh of relief when a ceasefire between the Syrian government and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces was announced. The celebration was short-lived.

Al Jazeera

Syrian camp for ISIS families faces uncertain fate

NPR

HUMAN RIGHTS

Myanmar airstrike on village of IDP’s kills 21

A military airstrike on a village in Myanmar sheltering displaced people from the northern township of Bhamo, where a final round of the country’s three-phase election is to be held this weekend, killed 21 people.

Associated Press

Nigeria police confirm mass church abductions

Nigeria’s police have now confirmed that a group of worshippers was kidnapped from three churches in a remote part of the northern Kaduna state, after previously denying it.

Yahoo! News

Victim of Nigeria church abduction describes escape

Yahoo! News

Israeli fire strikes journalists, children in Gaza

Israeli forces killed at least 11 Palestinians in Gaza, including two 13-year-old boys, three journalists and a woman, hospitals said, on one of the war-battered enclave’s deadliest days since the ceasefire took effect in October.

NPR

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

No option but to disappear, says Uganda’s Wine

Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine says he is in hiding after a military raid on his home, which he blames on forces loyal to President Museveni and his son, army chief Muhoozi Kainerugaba.

Deutsche Welle

Uganda’s youth on 40 years of Museveni

Guardian

What to know for Myanmar’s ‘so-called election’

As people trickled into polling stations scattered across Myanmar to vote in the country’s first elections since the 2021 military coup, much of the nation remained consumed by war.

Time

Myanmar junta ‘can’t last forever‘: Military in ’worse position now’ than ever before

YouTube

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Is Starlink reliable as wartime communication?

Starlink has helped some news and images get out of Iran during protests despite a government-imposed internet blackout. Here’s how it works and the risks it involves.

Deutsche Welle

Globally, internet shutdowns batter economies

Context

Meet the cow using tools to scratch herself

A cow in Austria has been observed using tools ― the first time such behavior has been recorded in cattle. Have we underestimated the gentle bovines all this time?

Deutsche Welle

GLOBAL HEALTH

India rushes to contain Nipah virus outbreak

Indian authorities are rushing to contain a Nipah virus outbreak after five cases were reported and nearly 100 people quarantined in the eastern state of West Bengal.

The Independent

What is Nipah virus?

The Independent

India’s egg donation rules create black market

India radically tightened its rules on egg donation to make it altruistic, but that move triggered a vibrant black market for eggs.

NPR

Guinea-Bissau says vaccine study suspended

Despite U.S. pushback, officials in west Africa say a controversial hepatitis B study is on pause amid ethics concerns.

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

A Kenyan runner championing women’s rights

Joan Chelimo is a world-class runner. But like some other top Kenyan athletes, she has also suffered gender-based violence. Now she is fighting the problem.

Deutsche Welle

AID, NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

EU to send hundreds of generators to Ukraine

The European Union says it’s sending hundreds more generators to Ukraine. Amid freezing temperatures, Russian strikes have cut electricity and heating.

Deutsche Welle

Will US-Russia-Ukraine talks bring war to an end?

Deutsche Welle

ActionAid plans to rethink child sponsorship

Child sponsorship schemes that allow donors to handpick children to support in poor countries can carry paternalistic undertones and need to be transformed, the co-chief executives of ActionAid UK said.

Guardian

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Gazans dig for garbage to burn to keep warm

Desperate Palestinians at a garbage dump in a Gaza neighborhood dug with their bare hands for plastic items to burn to fend off the cold and damp winter in the enclave, battered by two years of the Israel-Hamas war.

Associated Press

‘Brazen’ political influence of rich laid bare

The world saw a record number of billionaires created last year, with a collective wealth of $18.3 trillion, while global efforts stalled in the fight against poverty and hunger.

Guardian

ENVIRONMENT

Chile firefighters face attacks, drones, arson

Firefighters and security forces battling blazes in Chile that have killed at least 21 people and ravaged swaths of forest faced other dangers, too, from attempted attacks to the threat of drone collisions.

Associated Press

Why Chile’s wildfires are spreading faster

Associated Press

Indonesia takes action against mining firms

Floods that tore through Indonesia’s fragile Batang Toru ecosystem in 2024 — killing up to 11% of the world’s Tapanuli orangutan population — prompted widespread scrutiny of the mining companies operating in the area.

Guardian

Last stand for hummingbird facing extinction

In the heart of the Ecuadorian Andes, a tiny hummingbird, the Black-breasted puffleg, clings precariously to existence within its last sanctuary, the ancient Yanacocha Reserve.

The Independent

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Fishermen on Inle Lake in Myanmar. (Photo by madras91) Photo used under CC BY

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