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Rainwater harvesting and eco-gardens: how one Colombian neighbourhood helped a whole city plan for climate change

silverguide.site – From rainwater harvesting to tree nurseries, communities in Medellín are taking steps to increase their landslide and flooding resilience…
Rainwater harvesting and eco-gardens: how one Colombian neighbourhood helped a whole city plan for climate change

Can you stop malaria crossing borders? One nation’s bid to wipe out the disease

silverguide.site – Informal migration, plus climate change and rising numbers of cases globally, are complicating the tireless efforts of the landlocked African country to eradicate the killer disease…
Can you stop malaria crossing borders? One nation’s bid to wipe out the disease

More than £1bn pledged for Sudan as humanitarian crisis deepens

silverguide.site – Donors exceed funding target at Berlin conference but ceasefire talks stall with warring parties absent from talks…
More than £1bn pledged for Sudan as humanitarian crisis deepens

Soaring rents and a four-hour commute: the misery of the Lagos housing crisis

silverguide.site – The Nigerian megacity’s dynamic growth is outstripping its rental supply, and wages are not keeping up with rising costs…
Soaring rents and a four-hour commute: the misery of the Lagos housing crisis

Anger at ‘bloody unacceptable’ efforts to end Sudan’s war as conflict enters fourth year

silverguide.site – A top UN official has criticised lack of global urgency as reports confirm the world’s largest humanitarian crisis is worsening…
Anger at ‘bloody unacceptable’ efforts to end Sudan’s war as conflict enters fourth year

Cuba’s doctors were a lifeline for the world. Now the Caribbean is shamefully complicit in the US drive to expel them | Kenneth Mohammed

silverguide.site – For decades, Cuban doctors have served the Caribbean’s most marginalised. Now, as Cuba faces its own crisis, the region looks away, waiting on Trump’s approval…
Cuba’s doctors were a lifeline for the world. Now the Caribbean is shamefully complicit in the US drive to expel them | Kenneth Mohammed

Argentina just ripped up its pioneering glacier law. What does this mean for millions of people’s drinking water?

silverguide.site – Javier Milei’s reforms to the law will open up high-altitude areas to mining and risk water reserves already strained by the climate crisis, say activists…
Argentina just ripped up its pioneering glacier law. What does this mean for millions of people’s drinking water?

‘We fear the epidemic will return’: Senegal’s harsh anti-gay law puts decades of HIV progress in jeopardy

silverguide.site – Arrest toll mounts and gay men flee the country as new, harsher legislation cracks down on ‘promotion’ of homosexuality…
‘We fear the epidemic will return’: Senegal’s harsh anti-gay law puts decades of HIV progress in jeopardy

Sluts, simps and body shaming: the rise of Africa’s manosphere

silverguide.site – Experts have been alarmed at the growth of deep misogyny dressed up as self-help on social media. We profile seven men from across the continent who are gaining traction…
Sluts, simps and body shaming: the rise of Africa’s manosphere

Award-winning Iranian human rights lawyer arrested in Tehran, says her daughter

silverguide.site – Activists accuse Iran’s regime of crackdown on civil society as whereabouts of Nasrin Sotoudeh are unknown…
Award-winning Iranian human rights lawyer arrested in Tehran, says her daughter

‘Everyone is thinking about oil prices’: is Iran using the war to hide a surge in executions?

silverguide.site – Regime has long used the death penalty to suppress dissent but now appears to be withholding information on the killing of hundreds of prisoners, say rights groups…
‘Everyone is thinking about oil prices’: is Iran using the war to hide a surge in executions?

‘No more than a drop in the ocean’: this drug could end new HIV infections in Eswatini – why isn’t there enough?

silverguide.site – The southern Africa country has the world’s highest prevalence of HIV but the amount of lenacapavir reaching it is too small to reach all those at risk…
‘No more than a drop in the ocean’: this drug could end new HIV infections in Eswatini – why isn’t there enough?

My year in solitary confinement has not broken me. My peaceful fight for Baloch rights in Pakistan goes on | Mahrang Baloch

silverguide.site – No home in Balochistan is safe and enforced disappearances are widespread. Detaining me and other rights activists only confirms the justice of our cause…
My year in solitary confinement has not broken me. My peaceful fight for Baloch rights in Pakistan goes on | Mahrang Baloch

Urgent action needed to prevent surge in digital violence in Africa, experts say

silverguide.site – A huge rise in internet users under the age of 30 has fuelled an increase in online violence against women and girls with devastating real-life effects, activists say…
Urgent action needed to prevent surge in digital violence in Africa, experts say

‘Her head was broken’: parents at Iranian school bombed by US describe their worst day

silverguide.site – Hours before the world learned that a US missile had hit Shajareh Tayyebeh school, parents were already searching the rubble for their sons and daughters. In this exclusive report, four families describe the events of 28 February…
‘Her head was broken’: parents at Iranian school bombed by US describe their worst day

Danger after disaster: why emergencies come with increased risks for women

silverguide.site – After events such as Hurricane Beryl in the Caribbean, shelters offer refuge but no guarantee of safety to women and girls…
Danger after disaster: why emergencies come with increased risks for women

Dodging the ‘wrinkle wagon’: why a Brazilian film about ageing is inspiring older women

silverguide.site – The Blue Trail, about a rebellious 77-year old woman who escapes forced exile for elderly people, has struck a nerve in a country where ageism is widespread…
Dodging the ‘wrinkle wagon’: why a Brazilian film about ageing is inspiring older women

Cuts to overseas aid will ultimately hurt Britain | Letters

silverguide.site – Letters: Readers respond to the news that some of the world’s poorest countries are going to lose aid from the UK…
Cuts to overseas aid will ultimately hurt Britain | Letters

Heroism, horror and the ‘pits of hell’: inside the last days of El Fasher

silverguide.site – Over two days in October 2025, up to 10,000 people are believed to have been massacred; a further 40,000 civillians from the Sudanese city are still unaccounted for. This is the story of what happened…
Heroism, horror and the ‘pits of hell’: inside the last days of El Fasher

‘The whole country is doing it’: how illegal kidney traders target Pakistan’s desperate brick kiln workers

silverguide.site – Enslaved by debt, victims often feel compelled to sell an organ to repay loans – but can find themselves even worse off after the procedure…
‘The whole country is doing it’: how illegal kidney traders target Pakistan’s desperate brick kiln workers
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