Excluded Headlines: Siege of northern Gaza, Cuba energy crisis, BRICS looks at expanding ...
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:
Israel continues long siege of northern Gaza - The Israeli army has killed 700 people in the past 18 days. Northern Gaza has been blocked from receiving food, supplies, and fuel. There is no or little water. Airstrikes and shelling are constant, and dead bodies are strewn in the streets as medical workers can’t retrieve them due to the ongoing shelling. The Israeli army has set shelters on fire and rounded people up in the hundreds or thousands and marched them south. In this ongoing ethnic cleansing and genocide, soldiers have also separated men from their families and led them away, likely to prisons in Israel, blindfolded and handcuffed. Source, source, source, source.
Egypt declared malaria free - Egypt has been certified as a malaria-free country by the World Health Organization (WHO) after 100 years of policies aimed at eradicating the disease. Source.
Cuba dealing with an energy emergency and cyclones - US sanctions on Cuba have left the country without enough fuel for electricity, seeing daily blackouts lasting a few hours and recently, four days continuously. Further, Cyclone Oscar hit the eastern part of the country, killing six people and causing serious material damage while people there were already on their fourth day without power. Source, source
Protests continue in Bangladesh - Protests which began mid this year over public job quotas and led to the resignation of the PM, are continuing in Bangladesh, though it doesn’t seem that all sectors are involved now. On Tuesday, protesters sieged the presidential palace, and are now demanding the president resign, a new constitution, that the past two elections be deemed illegal and all elected officials disqualified, and that the youth wing of the governing Awami League be banned. Source, source.
Israel bombs World Heritage Site in Lebanon - Israel is escalating its bombardment of Lebanon, levelling numerous buildings, including the news station Al Mayadeen. The Israeli military has also attacked the ancient city of Tyre, a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site. Source.
Turkish air force attacks Kurds - Turkiye has struck Kurdish targets in northern Iraq and Syria. The Turkish defence ministry reported striking 47 targets associated with the Kurdistan Workers’ party. Source, source.
Chapo wins Mozambique presidential elections - Daniel Chapo, the presidential candidate for Mozambique's ruling party, was declared the winner of the October 9 elections today. The electoral commission says he won 71% of the vote, but the opposition party said the results were manipulated to favour the FRELIMO party, which has been governing for nearly 50 years. There was some violence during the elections. Source.
Commonwealth countries want reparations - The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) begins in Samoa tomorrow, and heads of Commonwealth countries are planning to demand reparations for Britain’s role in the slave trade. However, the UK said it won’t be considering that. Source.
BRICS block invites more partner countries from the Global South - The BRICS countries have agreed to include 13 nations as partner states in the association, though the move won’t be made official during the current summit taking place in Russia. Countries include Turkiye, Indonesia, Algeria, Belarus, Cuba, Bolivia, Malaysia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Vietnam, Nigeria, and Uganda. Source.
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