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Jul
09
2025
By The African Mirror
Global coalition unveils $4 trillion development finance plan as aid funding drops

Global coalition unveils $4 trillion development finance plan as aid funding drops

WORLD
A coalition of governments and international organisations have announced a comprehensive Action Plan to dramatically increase private sector investment in developing countries, addressing a $4 trillion annual financing gap that has widened since the pandemic. The initiative, unveiled at the Fourth Financing for Development Conference (FFD4), brings together the UN Capital Development Fund, UN Economic Commission for Africa, African Union Commission, OECD, and governments from Finland, Norway, and Switzerland, among others. The plan specifically targets mobilising private capital for the world's 44 Least Developed Countries, home to 880 million people. The announcement comes as official development assistance declined by over…
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Jul
09
2025
By HUGO SLIM
If European defence is rising, so should Europe’s humanitarian preparedness

If European defence is rising, so should Europe’s humanitarian preparedness

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This story was originally published by The New Humanitarian.By Hugo Slim EUROPEAN governments are making it very clear that they are preparing for war in Europe once again. At the NATO summit in The Hague last week, government after government pledged to boost defence spending – part of a broader trade-off that has drained aid budgets in parallel. The political assumption of peace in Europe is over. At the same time, a new scale of climate-related emergency is beginning. Greater humanitarian preparedness is now essential to meet this combination of challenges across the continent. If European governments are strengthening their…
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Jul
08
2025
By NEEMA BEGUM
I survived the 7/7 London bombings, but as a British Muslim I still grew up being called a terrorist

I survived the 7/7 London bombings, but as a British Muslim I still grew up being called a terrorist

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TWENTY years ago, I was walking through central London with my history teacher when a bus exploded behind us. We were in London for an awards ceremony at Westminster where I was to pick up the award for best opposition speaker in the Youth Parliament competition. We had arrived at Euston station and all local transport had been cancelled. At this point, we heard that there’d been a bomb scare. We bought a map at the station and set off to walk to Westminster when the number 30 bus exploded on Tavistock Square. It was the loudest sound I’d ever…
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Jul
08
2025
By NADRA NITTLE
‘We are not believed’: For Black women, the ‘Diddy’ verdict is a reminder of justice denied

‘We are not believed’: For Black women, the ‘Diddy’ verdict is a reminder of justice denied

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This story was originally reported by Nadra Nittle of The 19th. Meet Nadra and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. A raucous scene unfolded outside the New York City courthouse where a jury Wednesday acquitted Sean “Diddy” Combs of the most serious charges — sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy — against him during a six-week trial in which witnesses painted the rap mogul as a monster who preyed on vulnerable women in his orbit and took vengeance on anyone who stood in his way. Overjoyed that the jury returned a mixed verdict, including convictions on two…
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Jul
08
2025
By JULIET ROGERS
Friday essay: ‘whose agony is greater than mine?’ Testimonies of Gaza and October 7 ask us to recognise shared humanity

Friday essay: ‘whose agony is greater than mine?’ Testimonies of Gaza and October 7 ask us to recognise shared humanity

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IN 1962, poet and Auschwitz survivor Yehiel Dinur took the stand in Jerusalem in the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Dinur was a much-anticipated witness, bearing the audience’s hope this man, a poet, would be able to explain – to capture and to transmit – the experience of Auschwitz, and of the Holocaust; that he could speak the unspeakable. Prosecutor Gideon Hausner hoped such a witness might “do justice to the six million personal tragedies”. Dinur used the name Katzetnik 135633 in his writings, also translated as “Prisoner 135663”. On the stand, he said: “I believe wholeheartedly that…
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Jul
05
2025
By The African Mirror
Mass Afghan returns overwhelm UN resources as crisis deepens

Mass Afghan returns overwhelm UN resources as crisis deepens

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MORE than 1.4 million Afghans have returned or been forced to return to Afghanistan this year, creating an unprecedented humanitarian crisis that has overwhelmed international aid resources and threatened regional stability, the UN Refugee Agency warned. The surge in returns has accelerated dramatically since mid-June, with daily arrivals from Iran jumping from an average of 5,000 people per day to a record 43,000 on July 1 alone. Pakistan has also seen massive outflows, with nearly 150,000 Afghans returning in April. [Note: Need direct quotes from Arafat Jamal here] "Our teams are at the borders, receiving and assisting streams of exhausted,…
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Jul
05
2025
By MARGOT DAVIER
The challenges facing “invisible” reverse flow migrants in Panama

The challenges facing “invisible” reverse flow migrants in Panama

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This story was originally published by The New Humanitarian.By Margot Davier PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s administration has all but ended access to asylum at the US southern border, cancelled the protected immigration status of Venezuelans, Cubans, Haitians, and Nicaraguans, and deported hundreds of thousands of people. While some stay in Mexico or Central America, many of those sent south join thousands more migrants who – faced with the increasingly alarming and impossible situation in the United States – have chosen to head back to South America, becoming part of a new and largely unmonitored migration trend known as reverse flow. “The…
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Jul
04
2025
By BAMO NOURI
The US and Israel’s attack may have left Iran stronger

The US and Israel’s attack may have left Iran stronger

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ISRAEL’S attack on Iran last month and the US bombing of the country’s nuclear facilities, the first-ever direct US attacks on Iranian soil, were meant to cripple Tehran’s strategic capabilities and reset the regional balance. The strikes came after 18 months during which Israel had effectively dismantled Hamas in Gaza, dealt a devastating blow to Hezbollah in Lebanon, weakened the Houthis in Yemen, and seen the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria – a longstanding and key Iranian ally. From a military standpoint, these were remarkable achievements. But they failed to deliver the strategic outcome Israeli and US leaders…
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Jul
04
2025
By The African Mirror
Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up

Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up

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This story was originally reported by Jasmine Mithani of The 19th. Meet Jasmine and read more of her reporting on gender, politics and policy. LAST October, a 13-year-old boy in Wisconsin used a picture of his classmate celebrating her bat mitzvah to create a deepfake nude he then shared on Snapchat.  This is not an isolated incident. Over the past few years, there has been case after case of school-age children using deepfakes to prank or bully their classmates. And it keeps getting easier to do.  When they emerged online eight years ago, deepfakes were initially difficult to make. Nowadays,…
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