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14M Sudanese people displaced by civil war

The head of the International Organization for Migration said that over 14 million people had fled their homes in Sudan, either inside the country or over its borders, with some 200,000 people fleeing since last month.

Reuters

War is tearing Sudan apart

NPR

Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces sexually abused victims ages 8-75

Reuters

Bangladesh garment workers poorer than ever

Bangladesh garment workers have always been paid low wages, but now they’re facing a triple-barreled threat. Western buyers are paying less for the clothes, while food prices in the country have gone up by 10%.

NPR

1.1B live in acute poverty; conflict is a major factor

More than 1 billion people live in acute poverty, with nearly half of them in countries experiencing conflict, according to a new United Nations report.

Al Jazeera

Polling irregularities spur Georgia vote recount

Georgia’s central electoral commission said it would recount ballots at some 14% of polling stations after a disputed parliamentary election in the South Caucasus country.

Reuters

Tens of thousands protest Georgia election

Associated Press

Sole Lebanese burn unit sees surge of patients

With Israel’s airstrikes intensifying, the Geitaoui Hospital in Beirut has more than doubled its number of beds, but it still can’t keep up with the unprecedented number of casualties with severe burns.

NPR

Israeli ban on U.N. aid agency harms Gazans

Reuters

New laws imperil health of LGBTQ+ Georgians

Georgia could be on the verge of a health crisis if recent legislation targeting the LGBTQ+ community is not rolled back in election, activists say.

Context

HUMAN RIGHTS

AI is revolutionizing policing, but at what cost?

AI is bringing a tech revolution to policing. But AI policing software can also reinforce existing biases and threaten our right to privacy.

Deutsche Welle

140 Rohingyas on wooden boat off Indonesia

About 140 weak and hungry Rohingya Muslims, mostly women and children, were on a wooden boat anchored about 1 mile off the coast of Indonesia’s province of Aceh as local residents refused to allow them onto land.

Associated Press

Why DRC is facing ‘staggering’ rise in rapes

According to a report published Tuesday by Physicians for Human Rights, there’s been a “massive influx” of sexual violence in eastern DRC in recent years.

NPR

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Congo wants U.N. peacekeepers gone

Congo desperately wants stability in its mineral-rich east, of intense interest to the global economy. But political friction means the government wants the longtime United Nations peacekeeping force there to get out.

Associated Press

Ukraine population drops by 10M since invasion

Ukraine’s population has declined by 10 million, or around a quarter, since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion as a result of refugees leaving, collapsing fertility and war deaths, the United Nations said.

Reuters

Why is Ukraine’s army facing a desertion crisis?

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Ph.D. student finds lost city in Mexico jungle

A huge Maya city has been discovered centuries after it disappeared under jungle canopy in Mexico. Archaeologists found pyramids, sports fields, causeways connecting districts and amphitheaters in the state of Campeche.

BBC

Evidence shows women reigned in ancient Peru

Archaeologists have uncovered a throne room and detailed wall paintings indicating that a woman likely ruled Moche society in Peru over 1,300 years ago.

Deutsche Welle

Rare ‘ghost’ fish seen after almost 20 years

When scientists heard reports that a large, mysterious fish had been caught in Cambodia in 2020, excitement stirred. Could this be the “Mekong Ghost” - an elusive fish that hadn’t been seen since 2005 and was feared extinct?

CNN

GLOBAL HEALTH

Tuberculosis is chief infectious disease killer

Tuberculosis replaced COVID-19 to become the top cause for infectious disease-related deaths in 2023, according to a published World Health Organization report.

Reuters

Asthma gravely undiagnosed in African teens

Rapid urbanization is thought to be damaging adolescent health in Africa, as researchers say the need for medication and testing is urgent.

Guardian

Distrust hampers polio vaccination in Pakistan

Pakistani health workers who vaccinate against polio face accusations of carrying out a Western plot to harm Muslim children. Since a fake vaccination campaign a decade ago, they have also been falsely suspected of spying.

Deutsche Welle

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GOOD NEWS

Nightclub shelters Lebanese displaced by war

More than a fifth of Lebanon‘s population is now displaced, mostly fleeing from the country’s south as Israel carries out airstrikes against the Iran-backed group Hezbollah there.

NPR

Syrian still breakdancing after leg amputation

Mo, a Syrian breakdancer living in Germany, needed to have his leg amputated after suffering injuries in a bomb explosion. His misfortune has not kept him from the dance floor, and he aims to open a dance school.

Deutsche Welle

Pakistan welcomes more women firefighters

Deutsche Welle

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

IKEA Foundation gives $38M to aid Sudanese

The Netherlands-based Ikea Foundation has announced a €35 million ($37.9 million) grant to Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to assist with humanitarian aid in response to the ongoing war in Sudan.

Philanthropy News Digest

WHO, partners raise $1B for global health fund

The World Health Organization has announced funding commitments totaling $700 million from European countries, foundations, and private sector partners in support of its ongoing core work.

Philanthropy News Digest

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Mexico ag plan could take country back to ’80s

Mexico’s new president announced an agriculture plan that could make food production and distribution look like it did in the 1980s, when tortillas, beans, instant coffee and cheap hot chocolate dominated.

Associated Press

ENVIRONMENT

India’s energy capital poisoning its residents

Social worker Manonit Ravi says it has been “living hell” enduring the pollution in his village in India’s Singrauli region, where residents regularly battle the effects of toxic ash from nearby coal-fired power plants.

Context

Toxic harvest: The silent crisis among India’s farmers

Deutsche Welle

Amazon drought hard on Indigenous people

The Amazon River naturally fluctuates during the dry and rainy seasons. But since last year a dramatic drop has been evident, most critical in Brazil. Now the phenomenon is spreading into other Amazon nations.

Associated Press

Polar bears facing much higher risk of disease

As the Arctic warms, polar bears face a growing risk of contracting viruses, bacteria and parasites that they were less likely to encounter just 30 years ago, research has revealed.

BBC

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Students from the Bilal Fahes School in Toun village, Nabatieh, Lebanon. (Photo by Cluster Munition Coalition) Photo used under CC BY

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