One month of war on Iran cost Arab countries up to $194bn: UNDP
Even if conflict is ‘short but intense’, countries like Sudan, Yemen, Lebanon will see major increases in poverty rates.
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Cuba’s economy on edge: Fuel shortages and rising hardship
Havana’s streets have changed as a US fuel blockade restricts the movements of vehicles and people and hits businesses.
Zimbabwean child waste-pickers work ‘hazardous’ jobs to help their families
Boys as young as six scout for scrap metal to sell in a country where 14 percent of children have jobs.
Displaced Sudanese women caught up in war suffer wretched Ramadan
Women in Sudan’s Al-Sarraf camp face hunger and disease during a desperate holy month.
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California mulls a billionaire tax, revealing a deeply divided state
Billionaires threaten to leave the state to avoid paying a tax that would replace the US government’s cuts to Medicaid.
In Argentina, locals are taking loans to buy food
Argentinians are taking on loans, selling their belongings, and living on credit cards to pay for basics including food.
‘Colonial-era classism’: Residents decry demolitions in Nigeria’s Makoko
Thousands displaced from December to February as Lagos authorities destroy homes in Africa’s largest floating village.
Why US-funded vaccine trial plan for babies in Guinea-Bissau caused outrage
The health trial by researchers at the University of Southern Denmark has been suspended by Bissau-Guinean authorities.
‘I came back from the dead’: 21 hours underground after DRC mine collapse
In mineral-rich Rubaya, source of most of the world’s coltan, miners suffer poverty and dangerous working conditions.
‘We are exploited’: Congolese fear losing out as US makes minerals deals
As officials meet in Washington to discuss critical minerals, many in DRC fear their country will gain little.
Funeral insurance thrives as millions can’t afford healthcare in Zimbabwe
More Zimbabweans are preparing for death than survival as funeral policies are more popular than health insurance.
