Environment | The Guardian US20h ago
‘She gave her life to protect the richness of Congo’: inside the deadly assault on Upemba wildlife park https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/22/upemba-national-park-drc-militia-assault-rangers-killed-aoe #DemocraticRepublicOfTheCongo #GlobalDevelopment #Wildlife #Africa #Environment #WorldNews
‘She gave her life to protect the richness of Congo’: inside the deadly assault on Upemba wildlife park

Survivors describe how rangers and staff were targeted by an armed group during a raid on DRC’s national park earlier this month

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World news | The Guardian3d ago
Some of the world’s poorest countries to lose UK aid due to 56% budget cut https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/19/poorest-countries-lose-uk-aid-56-per-cent-budget-cut #GlobalDevelopment #ForeignCommonwealthAndDevelopmentOffice #Politics #UkNews
Some of the world’s poorest countries to lose UK aid due to 56% budget cut

UK’s bilateral aid to Africa, which funds programmes such as schools and clinics, to be cut by almost £900m by 2028-29

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The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News5d ago

The DNA database built to protect lions just helped convict the people who killed one

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Climate crisis | The Guardian6d ago
Reduced physical activity due to global heating will lead to rise in health issues, study says https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/16/reduced-physical-activity-due-to-global-heating-rise-health-issues-study #ClimateCrisis #Environment #Health #GlobalDevelopment #Society #WorldNews
Reduced physical activity due to global heating will lead to rise in health issues, study says

Researchers project that reduced activity could contribute to half a million additional premature deaths annually by 2050

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Technology | The Guardian USMar 16
India’s scattered workforce: the chatbot keeping families in touch during emergencies https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/16/chatbot-india-migrant-workers-whatsapp-odisha #GlobalDevelopment #India #SouthAndCentralAsia #WorldNews #Whatsapp #Chatbots #Technology
India’s scattered workforce: the chatbot keeping families in touch during emergencies

Covid exposed the lack of data on the country’s 140 million mobile migrant workers, but a new project in Odisha is helping to fill in the gaps

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World news | The GuardianMar 14
Global food supplies could be badly hit if Iran war drags on, says fertiliser boss https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/14/global-food-supplies-iran-war-fertiliser-yara-svein-tore-holsether #UsisraelWarOnIran #FoodSecurity #GlobalDevelopment #Society #FoodDrinkIndustry #Business #WorldNews #UkNews #UsNews #Norway #Europe
Global food supplies could be badly hit if Iran war drags on, says fertiliser boss

Yara’s Svein Tore Holsether says it would be ‘catastrophic’ if the strait of Hormuz was closed for a year

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World news | The GuardianMar 12
UK government axes flagship global health project https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/12/uk-government-axes-flagship-global-health-project #GlobalDevelopment #GlobalHealth #Aid #Society #Health #Africa #HealthPolicy #Politics #UkNews
UK government axes flagship global health project

Programme which supports schemes in six African countries was previously hailed as vital protection for Britain against future pandemics

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World news | The GuardianMar 12
‘Invasive’ AI-led mass surveillance in Africa violating freedoms, warn experts https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/12/invasive-ai-led-mass-surveillance-in-africa-violating-freedoms-warn-experts #GlobalDevelopment #AiArtificialIntelligence #Surveillance #HumanRights #Africa #Technology #Computing #WorldNews #Protest
‘Invasive’ AI-led mass surveillance in Africa violating freedoms, warn experts

Countries across the continent have spent more than $2bn on Chinese tracking technology that is not ‘necessary or proportionate’, new report finds

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World news | The GuardianMar 8
Will UN plans to transform the way it works ‘throw equality under the bus’? https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/08/un-plans-merge-women-unfpa-equality-reform #GlobalDevelopment #WomensRightsAndGenderEquality #UnitedNations #NewYork #WorldNews #UsNews #SexualHealth #Women #Women #TrumpAdministration #Gender #ReproductiveRights #ReproductiveRights
Will UN plans to transform the way it works ‘throw equality under the bus’?

Many of those attending the world’s largest meeting on women’s rights in New York this week are primed to defend the two key UN agencies that protect women and girls around the world

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World news | The GuardianMar 6
Peruvian state responsible for mother’s death in forced sterilisation, court rules https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/06/peruvian-state-responsible-for-mothers-death-in-forced-sterilisation-court-rules #GlobalDevelopment #ReproductiveRights #Peru #Americas #WorldNews #Women #WomensRightsAndGenderEquality #IndigenousPeoples #HumanRights
Peruvian state responsible for mother’s death in forced sterilisation, court rules

Landmark ruling in Celia Ramos case finds 310,000 women, most Indigenous, were targeted in brutal 1990s campaign

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