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Tanzania: Authorities brutally violated Maasai amid forced evictions from ancestral lands

Aug 17, 2023

On June 6, 2023 The Tanzanian authorities have repeatedly resorted to ill-treatment, excessive use of force, arbitrary arrests and detentions, and forced evictions against members of the Maasai Indigenous community,…

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Airstrike in Ethiopia’s Amhara region kills at least 26 people

Aug 17, 2023

On August 14, 2023 Residents say attack on town square in Finote Selam targeted ethnic Fano militia but civilians were also hit An airstrike on a busy town square in…

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Kidnappers in Haiti release US nurse and her young daughter nearly 2 weeks after their abduction

Aug 17, 2023

BY MICKENSON DUVERGÉ AND DÁNICA COTO On August 10, 2023 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Kidnappers in Haiti released a U.S. nurse and her daughter Wednesday, nearly two weeks after they…

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Hong Kong targets exiles’ loved ones as crackdown turns to old CCP playbook

Aug 17, 2023

By Erin Hale On August 4, 2023 Hong Kong authorities are targeting the relatives of activists overseas in latest sign of alignment with mainland China. Taipei, Taiwan – After silencing Hong…

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Sudan conflict displaces nearly four million: UN migration agency

Aug 17, 2023

On August 2, 2023 Latest data from IOM’s displacement matrix indicates that the clash between the Sudanese army and paramilitaries has uprooted a staggering number of people, with more than 926,000…

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Lebanon: At least 12,000 children displaced in Ein El-Hilweh Camp as violence enters its fifth day

Aug 17, 2023

On August 3, 2023 BEIRUT, 03 August 2023 – About 20,000 people including an estimated 12,000 children have been forced from their homes during five days of violence in Lebanon’s largest…

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‘We’re just trying to feed kids:’ Lunch prices in public schools spike amid budget cuts

Aug 16, 2023

By Kayla Jimenez On August 9, 2023 On a plane in July, Nicole Melia traveled from Philadelphia to Denver to meet with other school nutrition directors from across the nation…

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Florida Schools Try to Adapt to New Rules on Gender, Bathrooms and Pronouns

Aug 16, 2023

By Dana Goldstein On August 10, 2023 As schools start, it’s been more paperwork, a culling of reading lists, as well as new regulations about bathrooms. As a new school…

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Arkansas Warns School Districts Not to Offer A.P. African American Studies

Aug 16, 2023

By Dana Goldstein On August 14, 2023 What’s New In the latest conflict between the College Board and conservative policymakers, the Arkansas Department of Education warned schools on Monday —…

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