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How AI and digital data shape our understanding of migration
Photo credit: the Conversation When millions of people fled Ukraine following Russia’s invasion in 2022, governments and humanitarian organizations used mobile phone and online platform data to track movements and identify where support was needed. The Conversation reports that similar approaches have been used to monitor population displacement in Cameroon, and in Gaza during the Israeli-Hamas war. This is…
Was hosting the World Cup worth the price tag?
Photo credit: Cable News Canada held a total of 13 World Cup matches. The parliamentary budget officer estimated each match to cost $82 million. The Runner reports that co-hosting the World Cup was estimated to cost taxpayers nearly $1.1 billion. Of the total funding, $473 million would come from the federal government, and the remaining…
Protests break out in Havana as Cuba struggles to restore electricity
Photo credit: Reuters Scattered protests broke out across Havana on Tuesday evening, with residents banging pots, honking horns and shouting “turn on the lights” as millions of Cubans remained without power amid a sex-month-long US fuel blockade. The Korea Times reports that Cuba experienced a nationwide outage on Monday – its third this year – but…
Violence escalates in Sudan as a government commissioner is killed
Photo credit: ABC News A government-appointed county commissioner in an opposition stronghold in South Sudan’s oil-rich Jonglei State was “assassinated” by opposition forces in renewed violence, the government confirmed late Monday. The Associated Press reports that fighting in Jonglei has intensified in recent days, with an unknown number of casualties. The strategic county of Akobo has seen…
Trump intervention creates global uproar
Photo credit: Nine Former Socceroo Craig Foster has labelled Donald Trump’s request for FIFA chief Gianni Infantino too review the decision to give a red card and one-game ban to star US striker Folarin Balogun as “horrible” as the football world and beyond expressed disbelief over the decision. Wide World of Sports reports that following…
One million reasons to leave: Ethiopia’s migration crisis
Every morning, long before dawn breaks, young men and women flood Addis Ababa’s bus terminals. They board buses bound for Djibouti, Sudan, and destinations beyond Ethiopia’s borders. Many are university graduates whose hopes for a stable future have been eroded by years of unemployment, insecurity, conflict, and displacement. For them, migration is no longer a choice; it…
8 killed in landslides at Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh
Photo credit: NDTV At least eight Rohingya Muslims, including women and children, were killed and several others injured early Monday after heavy monsoon rains triggered multiple landslides at refugee camps in southeastern Bangladesh, officials said. Asiaone reports that more than 1.2 million Rohingya live in overcrowded camps in Cox’s Bazar, the world’s largest refugee settlement,…