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4 Aug 2025

Chinese fishing in Mauritania threatens local fishers

A long fishing deal with Chinese companies has increased Chinese vessels in Mauritanian waters. Local fishers report overfishing and sharp declines in species, while groups call on authorities to protect coastal livelihoods.

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1 Aug 2025

Africa plans to make more vaccines

The African Union aims for the continent to make most of its own vaccines by 2040. Africa now produces very few vaccines, and plans include new partnerships, factories and international funding, but experts warn of big challenges.

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31 Jul 2025

Budhani: a Tharu fable refabulated

"Budhani" is a novella retold from an Indigenous Tharu folktale. It follows a crow reborn as a girl, and it mixes a fight for rights with scenes of love and family conversation.

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31 Jul 2025

Who decides tropical medicine research?

A new analysis finds most journal editors in tropical medicine come from wealthy countries. The study links editorial imbalance to funding gaps and calls for more diversity, local training and fairer partnerships.

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30 Jul 2025

Brothers build magnetic system to remove arsenic

Arsenic in Indian groundwater causes serious health problems. Two brothers from Bihar developed METAL, a chemical-free magnetic way to clean water and built the MARU unit; their startup Navmarg has treated over 300,000 litres and plans sensors and AI.

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29 Jul 2025

China’s durian demand and Indonesia’s plans

China imported large volumes of durian in 2024, and Indonesia hopes a trade deal later this year to send whole durians to China will open a major new market for its fruit.

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28 Jul 2025

Illegal Well Drilling Worsens Iran's Water Crisis

Iran faces a severe water shortage made worse by unauthorized groundwater drilling by military-linked actors. Official silence has allowed aquifers to fall, forcing village abandonment and producing wider ecological and social damage.

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27 Jul 2025

Oil spill near Anapa after Kerch Strait storm

On 15 December 2024 two fuel tankers were damaged in the Kerch Strait and about 3,700 tons of oil spilled. The leak affected the sea near Anapa and has hit tourism and local businesses in 2025.

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27 Jul 2025

Botanical Afterlife of Indenture

A collaborative exhibition in Port of Spain used archival photographs and plants carried by indentured people to explore Indo‑Caribbean histories, gender and memory. It ran from June 10 to 21 and took two years to make.

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25 Jul 2025

First Black woman elected to Brazil's Academy of Letters

On July 10 Ana Maria Gonçalves was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters (ABL), becoming the first Black woman in its 128-year history. She is a novelist best known for Um defeito de cor.

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25 Jul 2025

Study warns of heavier rain and hotter nights in Tanzania

New research warns parts of Tanzania will see more extreme rainfall and rising temperatures. Experts say farmers, health and cities will be affected and call for stronger national policies, preparedness and community climate finance.

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25 Jul 2025

Action still needed to end hunger and change food systems

Experts say stronger action is needed after the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit. They note progress in research and national plans, but rising conflicts, climate extremes and funding limits put progress at risk. A stocktake will take place in Ethiopia this month.

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