🇧🇷🚺 In Brazil, there are record numbers of femicides and gaps in the protection system. Women in Brazil face a reality that cannot be glossed over. 👇

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#Ebola latest: The search for patient zero goes on. WHO’s Dr Anne Ancia reporting from Bunia, Ituri, in eastern #DRC, that’s in the grip of the outbreak.

💪 There's a growing demand and competition for critical minerals. 🤔 The question is: What’s the price? And we're not only referring to the monetary price, of course. We provide answers in our latest Monthly: 🇬🇧: spkl.io/63324ACAtI 🇩🇪: spkl.io/63325ACAtL

✨ In D+C, Payal Arora argues that many people cannot afford tech pessimism. Here's who, and why. 👉 spkl.io/6182ANIfw

⚠️ Poverty is often passed down from generation to generation. 🇳🇬 The Musa family’s story shows what needs to be addressed in Nigeria when it comes to poverty. 👇

📲 To a certain extent, technology is what you do with it. 🤔 What do you use technology like AI and social media for? Let us know in the comments. 👇

🔎 Most rare earths come from China...right?! Well, that depends very much on what you mean by "come from". 👇

👓 Have you had the chance to read our latest issue on critical minerals yet? If you're not sure where to start: D+C's Katharina Wilhelm Otieno has two recommendations for you. 👇 🤝 Find the entire issue here: spkl.io/63325ACTLP

😍 Are you dreaming of making money from social media? Young Zambians do, there's just one catch. 👇

For anyone who hasn’t had enough “humanity is doomed” headlines: Luke Kemp's book Goliath’s Curse argues global collapse is increasingly likely unless inequality is tackled head-on. 👇

🤝 Activism can pay off, and international cooperation brings about results, as these examples show. Learn more about this month's good news here. 👇

Taiwanese lawmakers on Friday approved $25 billion in special funds to buy missiles and other weapons from the U.S., ending the deadlock ahead of a summit between President Trump and his Chinese counterpart.

Netanyahu’s West Bank plan: annexation by law ft.trib.al/ezCsLXD

💥 Many of the minerals that power electric cars and wind turbines come from northern Myanmar’s conflict zones. China is maintaining its grip on the mining sites. 💡 For this exclusive report, the authors drew on local research and spoke to people in Kachin State. 👇

Russia's shadow PR: The collaborative journalism network of Forbidden Stories gained access to a major data leak on Russia’s disinformation network. These are their findings about Russia's central objective. 👇

🔬 Theresa Züger and her research team have developed an audit method to answer this question for individual AI projects: 🎭 Does artificial intelligence have more positive or negative consequences for society and the planet? 👉 spkl.io/63321AAVVx

🇮🇳 As India seeks rare earth security, attention is now turning to an overlooked source. 👇

🤖 AI – like other technologies too – is what you make of it.

On her wedding night in rural Egypt, 25-year-old university graduate Hind watched her marriage collapse within minutes. The reason: She was "not circumcised". Her case stands for what looks like a growing revival. 👇 #FGM

🏃‍♂️ Human rights activists who flee abroad hope for protection; but even abroad, many of them find themselves harassed and worse by the regime back home. 💬 Human-rights expert Selmin Çalışkan explains what that looks like, how other states help the persecuted, and what more needs to be done. 👇

🇧🇮 It was a bold move by Burundi's government to temporarily suspend the operations of international mining companies in order to demand fairer terms. 💰 But it takes more to guarantee prosperity. 👇

📣 Time and again, African democracy movements have upheld democratic ideals. 💡 Why the West could benefit from listening to them. 👉 spkl.io/63324Afx6p

These are trying times, but the resilience of young Africans is somewhat legendary. What is there to it? We asked Kenyan clinical psychologist Gladys K. Mwiti. 👇

🕊️ Will the US-brokered “minerals for peace” deal really deliver peace in DRC? Why that might be the wrong question 👇

🌍 More investment for Africa’s transportation, energy, communication and water infrastructure? The AU and OECD are right to call for that, says our contributor. 👇

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After nine years of decline, democracy scores have risen in more than half of the countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. That trend may happen elsewhere, too

Climate change can have devastating consequences for children's nutrition. This is one example. 👇

What's life like in Iran right now? In this exclusive report for D+C, an Iran-based journalist describes daily life in the war-torn country. 👇

📲 The goal is to narrow the significant digital divide in Africa and expand access to mobile internet.

“Orbán’s banishment is a blow to the fatalism that has become so fashionable in western democracies. There’s nothing inevitable about the march of the populist-oligarch right.” My Swamp Notes with @gideonrachman.bsky.social. Free to read. as.ft.com/r/a16fea82-8...

📲 To a certain extent, technology is what you do with it. 🤔 What do you use technology like AI and social media for? Let us know in the comments. 👇

✨ In D+C, Payal Arora argues that many people cannot afford tech pessimism. Here's who, and why. 👉 spkl.io/6182ANIfw

One in five Catholics lives in Africa, where the religion is growing faster than on any other continent. Yet Africans are still a minority in the senior ranks of Vatican leadership in Rome.

🌍Ultimately, the planet's health is our health and survival. How is humanity doing regarding environmental protection? Get an overview here. 👉 spkl.io/63320AN50K

The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution tabled by Ghana which describes the transatlantic slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity” and raises the issue of reparations. This is not legally binding – but it is all the more politically charged. 👇

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🎙️ If you're worried about disinformation: Our editor-in-chief spoke about solutions on the podcast Almendra Impact. Give it a listen! (It's in German.)👇

It's important to ask the right questions, also with regard to our future with AI. 👉 spkl.io/63329A24Lx

From concrete AI projects that benefit the Global South to how AI firms are setting their sights on Latin America’s resources, our latest Monthly covers it. Click here for the English or German version 👇 🇬🇧: spkl.io/63322A2vwa 🇩🇪: spkl.io/63323A2vwx

Trade can become one of the most powerful drivers of a new era of collaboration between Africa and Germany, argue Moses Vilakati, Mathias Mogge and Debisi Araba.

🇵🇪 Seven different presidents in the past ten years! Still, Peru has been the South American country that has made the most SDG progress in that time. But there are challenges. ▶️ spkl.io/63329AFhJL

🚹 Patriarchy has severe downsides for men too – privileges aside for once. So fighting patriarchy can be in men's self-interest. 👇

🤔 Pick your currency: automation/speed or accuracy/credibility? Sometimes choosing one compromises the other.

"The US and Israel should have first exhausted all means of diplomacy and non-military sanctions before using military force," writes Kai Ambos about the Iran war.

Building cities from scratch is often vainglorious folly. But if Egypt’s New Capital is successful it will transform desert sand into valuable real estate and attract millions of residents

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

🇰🇪 Kakuma is one of the world’s largest refugee camps located in Kenya. ⚠️ It's in a worsening humanitarian crisis because of the cuts to international aid funding. 👉 spkl.io/63326AFlLo

Now in its fifth week, the third Gulf war has already gone on longer than Donald Trump predicted at the start. Some are now even talking of America deploying thousands of troops on the ground to seize Iranian territory