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UN panel accuses regional South Sudan officials of overseeing gang rapes, beheadings

South Sudan should investigate officials accused of overseeing systematic gang rapes, some of whose victims were girls as young as nine, UN rights experts said on Monday in a statement the government dismissed as a fabrication.

Reuters

Commentary: The world population hit 8 billion — but with a peak in sight. What lessons does that have for climate change?

In the 1960s and ‘70s, global population growth was a huge concern. Scientists and the popular press spoke of a population explosion that threatened to cause famine, poverty and depletion of the Earth’s natural resources. The world’s population had grown at an accelerating rate from just under 1 billion in…

Los Angeles Times

Russia Ukraine news - live: Putin’s troops ‘continue to bombard reclaimed Kherson’

The port city was liberated from Russian occupation on 11 November

The Independent UK

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Help the hungry in Greater Manchester as we launch Christmas campaign to tackle food poverty

Humans MCR distribute food parcels to the families who are struggling to feed themselves

Manchester Evening News

Arab Monetary Fund signs $1 billion agreement to support Yemeni government reforms - Saudi state media

The Arab Monetary Fund has signed a $1 billion agreement to support Yemen's economic reform programme to its Saudi-backed government, Saudi state media said on Sunday.

Reuters

Civilians escape Kherson after Russian strikes on freed city

Civilians have streamed out of the southern Ukrainian city whose recapture they had celebrated just weeks earlier, after days of intensive shelling by Russian forces.

WEKU

Freezing temperatures grip Kyiv as power shortages persist in Ukraine

Snow fell in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv Sunday, while the electricity supply was still disrupted due to recent air strikes carried out by Russia, guaranteeing a difficult winter for the city's inhabitants. Meanwhile, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky warned of fresh strikes from Moscow. Read our live blog to review all…

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Kidnappings, looting cited in Ethiopia's Tigray after truce

Eyewitnesses and aid workers say that allies of Ethiopia’s federal military are looting property and carrying out mass detentions in Tigray

The Independent UK

Mozambique struggles to rebuild after dual shock of climate change and insurgent violence

Mozambique is suffering from displacement of its internal population due to violent and conflict and pressures brought on by climate change. The UNHCR is attempting to resolve issues for those who remain, including accommodation, food security and economic sustainability

The Independent UK

EU ministers endorse new migrant plan after furious row between France, Italy

European interior ministers welcomed Friday an EU plan to better coordinate the handling of migrant arrivals, after a furious row over a refugee rescue boat erupted between Italy and France.

Radio France Internationale

Food aid into Ethiopia’s Tigray ‘not matching needs’: UN

Access to some parts of Tigray remains constrained even as all four road corridors are now open, UN food agency says.

Al Jazeera

Ukraine remembers Stalin-era famine as Russia war rages

Ukraine accused the Kremlin on Saturday of reviving the "genocidal" tactics of Josef Stalin as Kyiv commemorated a Soviet-era famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in the winter of 1932-33.

Reuters

Kyiv opens Grain from Ukraine scheme to get food to Africa’s poorest countries

Programme to subsidise exports of grain to poor and hungry countries launched on anniversary of Ukraine’s Holodomor famine

The Guardian - UK

Ministers meet East Wall, Dublin residents protesting over arrival of hundreds of Ukrainian refugees into their community

Hundreds of people have turned out at protests and joined local residents in expressing their opposition to the Government’s move over the past fortnight

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The Guardian - UK

Germany set to declare starvation of Ukrainians under Stalin a genocide

Bundestag hopes move will serve as ‘warning’ to Moscow as Ukraine faces potential hunger crisis

The Guardian - UK

Starvation being used as a weapon of war in South Sudan, report reveals

Hundreds of thousands forced into refugee camps as homes and crops destroyed and aid workers are targeted for attack

Foreign Policy

The World’s Most Remote Film Festival

Deep in the Algerian desert, a Sahrawi-run event puts Western Sahara’s struggle for liberation on the big screen.

The Conversation

Conflict in the DRC: 5 articles that explain what's gone wrong

For nearly three decades, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been embroiled in violence. Millions of people have been killed, and an estimated 5.6 million others displaced by civil wars, local feuds and cross-border conflicts.

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British foreign minister unveils more winter aid on Kyiv trip

British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly unveiled millions of pounds in additional support for Ukraine during a visit to Kyiv on Friday, as the country grapples with Russian air strikes on vital infrastructure with winter setting in.

Radio France Internationale

French NGOs in Mali concerned for civilians in wake of suspension

French-backed NGOs in Mali fear their future is in limbo after military-run authorities ordered the suspension of their activities earlier this week. The announcement marks a further twist in the downward spiral between the Sahel nation and its former colonial power.

Reuters

Senegal to receive aid payouts from drought insurance - spokesperson

Senegal is due to receive around 330,000 pounds ($400,500) in insurance payments from aid organisations to protect against the risk of drought, a spokesperson for the aid groups said on Thursday.

Texas Observer

At Casa Juan Diego, Refugees Find An Outpost of Compassion

Since 1980, migrants fleeing poverty, violence, and natural disaster have come here for refuge from an intolerant world.

The Guardian - UK

A year after 27 drowned crossing the channel, migrants still suffer in Calais

Asylum-seekers sleep rough, forge friendships and withstand harassment from police as they seek passage to the UK

Reuters

UNICEF study shows kids make up 40% of Haiti's cholera cases

Some two in five of Haiti's growing number of cholera cases are among children, the United Nation's children's agency warned on Wednesday, saying youth suffering from severe malnutrition ran three times the risk of dying from the bacterial disease.

The Independent UK

UK spending more aid on refugees at home than on assistance to poor countries

Statistics on last year’s spending show much of slashed UK aid went on domestic costs as help for Africa plummeted.

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