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Some Congolese protest and question motives of Macron visit

Shouting through megaphones, a dozen Congolese anti-French protesters waylaid commuters on a busy road in the capital Kinshasa and passed out leaflets to boost opposition to a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday.

Reuters

Hunger strikers back in hospital

Two activists who have been on a hunger strike for 44 days to press for the release of political prisoners were rushed back to hospital in critical condition on Friday evening after spending a week protesting outside the Supreme Court.

Bangkok Post

'Simply burning out': teachers demand help to address shortages in Upper Hunter

Teachers took action at the school gate this week over ongoing shortages in the Upper Hunter.

Newcastle Herald

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Frenchman remains in Iran prison despite acquittal, lawyer says

French citizen Benjamin Briere is still in an Iranian jail despite his recent acquittal by an appeals court, his lawyer has said.

Radio France Internationale

DWP benefit cap 'fallacy' impacting 350 Bristol families, new figures reveal

"It doesn’t incentivise work, it leaves children hungry"

Bristol Post

Is North Korea fighting a food crisis?

North Korea has called for agricultural improvements as concerns grow of a worsening food crisis.

Al Jazeera

Thinking of having a baby as the planet collapses? First, ask yourself five big ethical questions

Do you want to have a baby? But, on a planet rocked by the climate crisis is having one just adding to the problem?

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Thinking of having a baby as the planet collapses? First, ask yourself 5 big ethical questions

Do you want to have a baby? But, on a planet rocked by the climate crisis, ecosystem collapse, famine and poverty, is having one just adding to the problem – and therefore unethical?

The Conversation

The Lake Chad Basin is a security nightmare. 5 guidelines for finding solutions

It is now 14 years since Boko Haram and other armed groups began to operate in the Lake Chad Basin. The region, which includes Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon, has become unstable and the people who live there are in dire need of humanitarian assistance.

The Conversation

West Lothian church leader urges locals to help stricken people of Malawi

Dr Frank Stewart, an elder at Boghall Parish Church is urging people to support EMMS International, Scotland’s international healthcare charity

Daily Record

Half of Sri Lanka families reducing children food intake: Charity

Government and global community must act to prevent children from ‘becoming a lost generation’, warns Save the Children.

Al Jazeera

Crime and No Punishment

How impunity fosters instability.

Foreign Affairs

Crisis in need of regional accord

The military coup of Feb 1, 2021 plunged Myanmar into a political crisis. Two years on, this has become a humanitarian crisis. Half of our population does not have enough food, according to the World Food Programme (WFP). At least 1.6 million are internally displaced, due to military operations, including…

Bangkok Post

Top U.N. official tours east Congo as peacekeeping mission struggles

((This March 1 story has been corrected to change the reference from ceasefire deal to ceasefire process in paragraph 6))

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Bangkok Post

Hunger strikers in 42nd day

About 200 people rallied outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday evening in support of two young activists now on the 42nd day of a hunger strike to press for freedom for political prisoners.

Bangkok Post

Hunger pangs

Netflix is serving up a tasty hors d'oeuvre with the first set of images from “Hunger”, Netflix’s first Thai film of the year.

Evening Standard

Expand free school meals across country, say most Londoners

Eight out of ten Londoners in almost every parliamentary constituency in the capital want free school meals to be given to children in households receiving Universal Credit

Evening Standard

Number of children in food poverty nearly doubles in a year to 4 million

Parents are worried about the physical and mental impact on children

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Al Jazeera

A year into Ukraine war, food prices rise and aid drops in Niger

Effects of the war are still being felt in one of the world’s poorest countries as inflated prices eat into budgets.

The Guardian - UK

Number of UK children in food poverty nearly doubles in a year to 4m

Support grows for expansion of free school meals to struggling families in face of rising hunger

Al Jazeera

North Korea’s Kim orders ‘radical change’ in agriculture

North Korean leader calls on officials to meet production targets after South Korea warns of “grave” food situation.

Bangkok Post

How to prevent humanitarian crises in future

The world is in the midst of the worst food crisis in modern history. As a confluence of geopolitical, economic, and climate crises fuels global shortages, a staggering 326 million people in dozens of countries need humanitarian aid, with 222 million facing acute food insecurity and up to 50 million…

The Guardian - UK

Panic-bought veg is destined for the bin

Letters: Food shortage reports | Partygate legal fees | The downside of economic growth | Consultants v rhinos | Reaching middle age

Al Jazeera

UN seeks $4.3bn in aid for war-torn Yemen

The appeal comes before a donors conference to raise funds to support millions in need of aid after eight years of war.

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN Appeals for $4.3 Bn to Help Millions in War-torn Yemen

The United Nations said it needed $4.3 billion this year to help millions of people in war-ravaged Yemen, ahead of a donors' conference on Monday. Aid agencies need the money to help more than 17 million people in the country, which has been devastated by an eight-year civil war, said…

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