Excluded Headlines: Fires in Nepal, Argentina strike, some Sudanese returning home ...
Stay up to date on the Global South news stories the US- and Eurocentric media overlook, with author and journalist, Tamara Pearson.
In this week’s Global South news:
Fires see Nepal’s air quality worst in the world - Fires in the capital have seen it jump to having the worst air quality in the world over the past week. The fires come as the country goes through the dry season, with its monsoon rains prior bringing much less rainfall than usual. The past month alone has seen 600 wildfires. Like many Global South countries facing climate change, the country has few resources to fight the fires with. Source.
General strike in Argentina - Unions held the third general strike so far under Milei today in protest against his anti-people policies. The strike comes as Milei made a deal with the IMF for a new loan and more re-structuring, including changing the system of currency and capital controls. The IMF plan has the support of the US government. Source, source, source.
Myanmar will allow some Rohingya refugees to return - Myanmar has confirmed that 180,000 Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh are eligible to return. It could be a breakthrough in a repatriation process that has been stalled for years. Some 1.2 mill Rohingya people are living in camps in southestern Bangladesh. In Myanmar, they face denial of citizenship and basic rights. They say Myanmar should take them all back, not just a few, and ensure full rights. Source, source, source.
Gaza: Thirst, brutal killings of journalists - Israeli warplanes targeted a media tent in Khan Younis late Sunday. At least two journalists were killed and nine others injured in the assault. Footage online showed journalist Ahmad Mansour engulfed in fire and burning alive while his colleagues scrambled to rescue him, and he died on Tuesday. Israel also bombed one of Gaza’s few operational water desalination plants that was supplying clean drinking water, and many people there fear dying of thirst, as the blockade of food and aid enters its sixth-continuous week. Source, source.
Some Sudanese returning home - For the first time in two years, some Sudanese families and people are returning to their homes in areas recently recaptured by the army near or in Khartoum. But the city they are going back to is very different, and a new ICRC report stresses that 70-80% of health facilities in conflict-affected areas are no longer functioning and TRT reports that electricity is sporadic. Over 10 million people have been displaced in Sudan over the past two years. Source, source.
Guatemalans protest for 36 hours against potential new Canadian mine - Guatemalans and Q’eqchi people from 56 communities in Livingston protested on a main road against licences and mining activity requested by Río Nikel, S.A., a subsidiary linked to Solway Investment Group and Canada’s Central American Nickel. Source.
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