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Pakistani breast milk bank closes after Islamic clerics withdraw approval

Doctors deplore decision and point to country’s high neonatal mortality rate as bank, which opened in June, forced to close without taking a single deposit

The Guardian - UK

What’s Sudan like after 15 months of war, displacement, and brutality?

Fighting has been reported in the towns of Sinja, Sennar and Dinder, prompting an exodus of civilians.

Al Jazeera

Sudan is now confronting its most severe food security crisis on record

After 14 months of escalating internal conflict, Sudan is now confronting its most severe food security crisis on record. The latest situation report, released on 27 June, reveals a grim picture: more than half the population of 47.2 million is facing acute food insecurity. This signifies severe lack of food,…

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Sudan’s army chief says many countries ‘turn a blind eye’ to RSF crimes

General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan tells Al Jazeera many countries remain silent over alleged crimes in Sudan’s civil war.

Al Jazeera

Rwanda-backed Rebels, DRC Begin Two-week 'Humanitarian Truce'

A two-week humanitarian truce between Kinshasa and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels began on Friday in the Democratic Republic of Congo's war-scarred east.

International Business Times

The Latest | Hamas says it got a 'positive response' from mediators to its cease-fire amendments

A spokesperson for Hamas says the group’s proposed amendments to the most recent U_S_ plan for a cease-fire in Gaza “have been met with a positive response by the mediators.”

The Independent UK

Civil servants obliged to carry out Tory Rwanda deportations, court rules

Union for civil servants claimed Home Office staff could be open to prosecution if Strasbourg rulings on Rwanda ignored

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Soldiers in DR Congo condemned to death for 'fleeing the enemy'

Twenty-five soldiers with the Democratic Republic of Congo's army have been sentenced to death on charges of "fleeing the enemy" during battles with notorious Tutsi-led M23 rebels.

Radio France Internationale

Migrants Face 'Unimaginable Horrors' Crossing Africa Says UN

Refugees and migrants face extreme violence, abuse and exploitation on land routes crossing Africa to get to the Mediterranean, with far more believed to be dying there than at sea, a UN-backed report said Friday.

International Business Times

Land routes across Africa are twice as deadly for migrants as Mediterranean voyages, UN estimates

The U.N. and partners say more migrants and refugees in Africa are heading north toward the Mediterranean and Europe, crossing dangerous land routes in the Sahara where criminal gangs roam subject them to enslavement, organ removal, rape, kidnapping for ransom and other abuses

The Independent UK

‘They live with fear in their stomachs’: increasing violence deepens crisis in Burkina Faso

About 10% of the population is displaced and 40 of the west African country’s cities are cut off from aid – but agencies say they have only 17% of the funding needed to help

The Guardian - UK

DRC tribunal sentences 25 soldiers to death for ‘fleeing the enemy’

Military court in Butembo set up as part of crackdown on soldiers fleeing M23 rebels as fighting rages in the east.

Al Jazeera

Where and why is mpox disease spreading in the DRC?

A new variant of the virus is spreading through sexual contact and is affecting vulnerable populations, experts say.

Al Jazeera

Haiti's prime minister says Kenya police is crucial to controlling gangs, calls early days positive

Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille told the U.N. Security Council that recently-deployed Kenyan police will be crucial to helping control the country’s gangs and moving toward democratic elections

The Independent UK

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Suspected jihadist attack in Mali kills at least 21 civilians

An attack blamed on jihadists in central Mali killed more than 20 civilians on Monday, two local officials said, in the latest killings in the troubled Sahel region.

Al Jazeera

Dozens killed in attack on village in central Mali

Mali has been plagued by al-Qaeda-linked and ethnically based armed groups, but forced out UN peacekeepers.

The Conversation

Kenya unrest: Ruto awakened class politics that now threatens to engulf him

Many of the grievances of Kenya’s Gen-Z, young people who took to the streets in late June, have been palpable for years.

Salon

Extreme food insecurity in Gaza

"The IPC estimates that 96% of the population in Gaza . . . are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity"

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Al Jazeera

Kenya police clash with protesters as tax bill unrest continues

Protesters condemn police brutality amid deadly demonstrations over withdrawn tax bill, call for president to resign.

Latin Times

Haiti Violence Displacing One Child Every Minute: UNICEF

Displaced children account for more than half of the 600,000 people who have been forced to flee their homes due to violence, according to UNICEF, particularly in the capital Port-au-Prince, much of which is controlled by gangs.

France 24

Haiti gang violence displaced more than 300,000 children this year, UN says

More than 300,000 children are displaced in Haiti since gangs forced out Prime Minister Ariel Henry and took over the capital Port-au-Prince earlier this year, UNICEF says. Many children, some of whom are forced to join gangs, are living in makeshift shelters and lack access to food, health care, clean…

The Guardian - UK

Obsession with growth is enriching elites and killing the planet. We need an economy based on human rights

Economic growth allows the few to grow ever-wealthier. Ending poverty and environmental catastrophe demands fresh thinking

The Independent UK

Hunger grips Yemen even more. The UN says more than half of households aren't eating enough

The United Nations food agency says more than half of households in Yemen are not eating enough due to poor economic conditions and a monthslong pause in food assistance to millions of people in the rebel-held north

The Conversation

Boko Haram and western education: the surprising views of some Nigerians who left the insurgency group

The world has come to associate the insurgency in north-east Nigeria with the slogan “western education is forbidden”. This is how “Boko Haram” – the name given to the insurgents – is commonly translated from the Hausa language into English.

The Guardian - UK

Child malnutrition crisis in Nigeria amid rural violence and soaring food inflation

MSF says it is overwhelmed in country where 31.8 million people are suffering from hunger

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