Excluded Headlines: India food loss, PNG landslide, Israel closes in on Gaza land borders ...
Stay up to date on the global news stories the US- and Eurocentric media overlook, with author and journalist, Tamara Pearson.
In this week’s Global South news:
After climate change landslide buries over 2,000 people in Papua New Guinea, more ordered to evacuate - The landslide on Friday that likely killed over 2,000 people, with most of them still buried, is still active. Officials have ordered more residents in the area to evacuate. People looking for survivors where part of a mountain collapsed on a village due to heavy rains, face rocks and debris that continue to fall. Source, source.
Heat wave in India leads to food loss, deaths, protests - Lack of refrigeration facilities means poor farmers particularly often lose food to spoilage, but with temperatures reaching 52°C (125.6°F) in Delhi on Tuesday, even more food, especially crops like bananas, are being lost to heat. Hundreds of people have died, with one report that 16,000 people have suffered heatstroke since March 1. Farmers holding a 100-day protest camp in which they are living under tarps joined to their tractors, are even more vulnerable to the heat and government policies they are protesting, as the tarps and metal increase the temperature. Source, source, source.
Heat wave in Guatemala damages cardamom plantations - Drought, dry rivers, and temperatures over 45°C (113°F) have killed off cardamom farms. Source.
Israel closes in on Gaza after occupying all land borders, Rafah massacre - The Israeli army has occupied the entire land border with Gaza, after taking control of a demilitarised buffer zone running along Egypt. The move follows the May 26 Rafah massacre in which at least 45 people were killed in a strike on a refugee camp which then caught fire. Some 200 people were injured. One analysis found that US munitions were used in the strike. Source, source.
Initial South Africa election results suggest vote moving away from the ANC - The ANC, which has been voted into power every election since the end of apartheid, is likely to get less than 50% of the vote. Full results are expected this weekend. That means that for Ramaphosa to serve another term, the ANC would have to form a coalition with opposing parties. Source, source.
Egypt to raise bread prices by 300% - Egypt, after dealing with inflation and also importing a large proportion of its wheat, will raise the price of heavily subsidised bread for the first time in decades. Source.
Colombia bans bullfighting - Colombia’s congress passed a law that seeks to eliminate the fights and promote a culture that respects animal life. Source.
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