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Katharine Houreld

@khoureld.bsky.social
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Muckraker, traveler, adventuress. East and Southern Africa Bureau Chief for the Washington Post. Email: katharine.houreld at washpost.com

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Katharine Houreld @khoureld.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My piece on the Colombian mercenaries in Sudan - and their paymasters in the Emirates - is out as the cover story of the Financial Times magazine today. It's the culmination of months of interviews and data tracking with @justinlynch.bsky.social Here's a gift link: as.ft.com/r/868d9fe4-1...
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The mercenaries fighting in Africa’s forgotten war
Hundreds of Colombian fighters were brought to Sudan by a shadow network. At the end of the journey lay a city of corpses
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Katharine Houreld @khoureld.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Depressed about the coral reefs dying off? A group of scientists fed an AI program with generations of observations to map secret refuges where coral still have a fighting chance of hanging on - if pollution or overfishing doesn't get them first. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/c...
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Almost 100% of new cars sold in Norway last year were electric. Not just because of oil wealth. Because of carbon taxes, EV incentives, and thirty years of consistent policy. New newsletter: Norway: The World's Most Instructive Energy Paradox janrosenow.substack.com/p/norway-the...
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Norway: The World’s Most Instructive Energy Paradox
The electrification playbook the world needs - and its inconvenient footnote
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
The official NOAA stats out this week confirm that winter 2025-26 was the warmest on record across a huge portion of the western and central U.S., which has contributed to extremely low mountain snowpack & worsened the CO River crisis. Meanwhile, record March heat is in forecast.
Official map from NOAA depicting the relative rank of winter 2025-2026 temperatures at a county level across the contiguous U.S. Many counties in the western and central U.S. are depicted in dark red color, signifying record-warmest winter. All other counties in the west and central U.S. are depicted in dark orange colors, signifying a "near record warm" rank.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 11/03/2026
The U.S. and Israel are racing to destroy Iran’s missile supplies before their own air defenses are exhausted, Missy Ryan and Nancy A. Youssef report:
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The One Variable that Could Decide the War
The U.S. and Israel are racing to destroy Iran’s missile supplies before their own air defenses are exhausted.
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Katharine Houreld @khoureld.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Lovely piece on windfarms revitalising a dying Spanish town by @meerasub.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com The town’s shrinking population now sustains itself. Young people stayed & had babies. “We have a group of children,” the mayor told me. "Generation Wind." www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
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Spain’s Wind-Farm Bargain
Renewable-energy projects can boost the economy of a rural town—if the community has a say in development.
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Katharine Houreld @khoureld.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I've lost my job. To those kind, strong, determined, courageous people I interviewed or worked with over the years: you will always inspire me. To every stranger who helped: thank you. To the arms dealers, liars, thieves, killers of children: I’m keeping my files. See you all on the other side.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...
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U.S. citizen injured by federal agents in Salem who demanded to see “papers,” union says - Salem Reporter
A home care worker and union worker was pulled from her car and injured by federal agents Thursday according to a statement by SEIU 503. To comment on this story, use the form at the end of the repor...
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
This article is a very good example of why "more training" and "more vetting" isn't the answer. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez joined Border Patrol in 2018 and 2014 respectively. These aren't new agents. www.propublica.org/article/alex...
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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
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Katharine Houreld @khoureld.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Serving members of Kenya's security forces have been lured to fight for the Russian army in Ukraine, survivors and families say. They include a member of the elite U.S.-trained SPEAR unit, which guards the U.S. embassy in Nairobi. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
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Kenyan job seekers were lured to Russia, then sent to die in Ukraine
The Post spoke to four Kenyans who fought in Ukraine and relatives of nine other recruits, as a secret pipeline funnels young Africans to Russia’s military.
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Katharine Houreld @khoureld.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Cutting the funds to deliver 116,000 medical kits to treat victims of rape saved U.S. taxpayers $2 million. But it meant many women in eastern Congo could not longer get the pills they needed to prevent medicine, HIV, and deadly sexually transmitted diseases. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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Congolese rape survivors search in vain for medicine after USAID cuts
In eastern Congo, where rape is widespread, the cancellation of USAID funding for PEP kits has left many victims vulnerable, according to nearly 50 interviews.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 16/12/2025
It looks like 2025 will end up at about 1.47°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline, making it likely the third hottest year in the last 120,000+ years. Meanwhile, the 3-year running average is going to end the year above 1.50°C for the first time.
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Katharine Houreld @khoureld.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Thousands of civilians are being held for ransom after the RSF captured El Fashir, with kidnappers staging torture and executions on camera if families cannot pay. One man could only pay for his wife and children; he was killed in front of them www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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In Sudan, thousands held hostage for ransom — and killed if they can’t pay
RSF fighters in El Fashir have rounded up civilians en masse, survivors told The Post, subjecting them to torture and extorting their families for cash.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
In 2024, renewable energy accounted for over 90% of global power capacity expansion. That is because it makes economic sense. IRENA_DAT_RE_Capacity_Highlights_2025-1.pdf
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Katharine Houreld @khoureld.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Sudanese children - their parents dead or missing - are wandering alone through a burned desert strewn with bodies, desperately seeking help. Some are badly wounded; all are starving. Many saw parents killed; others just lost them in the chaos www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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In Darfur, Sudan’s lost children wander through a landscape of death
Around 200 unaccompanied children have arrived in the Sudanese town of Tewila after escaping El Fashir, where RSF fighters have carried out mass killings.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Just two decades ago, China had little capacity to manufacture cars — and owning one was considered a novelty. Today, China produces and exports more cars than any other country in the world. Meanwhile we in Europe still pretend we can somehow stop EVs from taking off by holding on to old tech.
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Katharine Houreld @khoureld.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The intimacy of the cruelty in Sudan's El Fashir: A wounded man appeals to an RSF commander. “I know you,” he tells Abu Lulu. “I called out to you a while ago.” “I will never have mercy,” the commander responds. “Our job is only killing.” He shoots him dead. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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Paramilitary massacres unfolding in Sudan’s Darfur, videos show
RSF paramilitary fighters are carrying out mass ethnic killings in the recently captured city of El Fashir, according to videos, aerial images and interviews.
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
To assume all businesses want to strip away green regulations would be very wrong Companies are complaining about EU failing to deliver on laws originally intended to come into force at the beginning of 2025 to stop commodities tied to deforestation being sold in EU www.ft.com/content/7593...
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Katharine Houreld @khoureld.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Climate curious? Don't wade thru the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — a 3,000-page tome of jargon heavy enough to knock out a hungry polar bear. You can play a card game with some mates instead - and still get the science. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
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Climate-curious but confused? Grab a beer and some cards.
Fresk converts the latest climate science into a hands-on card game, helping players understand the causes, effects and feedback loops of climate change.
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Katharine Houreld @khoureld.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
The girl died, sweating and shivering. The boy's hand slipped from his mother's as she screamed. Both could have been saved by drugs that the U.S. had already bought, paid for and shipped - only a couple of kilometers away. But USAID cuts had stopped deliveries www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting.
USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...
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Katharine Houreld @khoureld.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Sudan's civil war has seen a proliferation of anti-aircraft weapons: deadly drones, MANPADS, and truck-borne surface-to-air missile systems. Even Turkey's advanced Akinci drones, which the military used to help retake the capital, are getting shot down. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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New antiaircraft weapons propel Sudan’s war, imperil global security
Fighters now possess antiaircraft weapons that could threaten civilian air traffic and what appears to be a Chinese surface-to-air missile system, experts said.
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The World @theworld.org · 24/09/2025
Hundreds of thousands of people are trapped in the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher, cut off by 19 miles of earthen berms built by rebel forces now attacking the town. @khoureld.bsky.social and her @washingtonpost.com colleagues have been speaking with some of those behind the dirt walls.
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Starving and surrounded: el-Fasher residents plead for aid - The World from PRX
Hundreds of thousands of people are trapped in the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher, cut off by 19 miles of earthen berms built by rebel forces now attacking the town. Katharine Houreld and her Was...
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Katharine Houreld @khoureld.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Love & pain in Sudan's el Fashir - the father trying to comfort his daughter, raped when she went to pick wild weeds for her starving family. The man praying a last time with his dying brother, shot as they fled. The mother whose young sons are missing. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Starvation or execution: Sudanese under siege face ‘death everywhere’
Families in El Fashir are eating animal feed. Children have been raped while foraging for food. Those who try to escape have been kidnapped and killed.
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Katharine Houreld @khoureld.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Excellent report by @propublica.org on abuses migrant workers face under the H2A visas. Sex trafficking, kidnapping, beatings, deaths. Sofi ended up bound in the back of a pickup, her abuser smearing her blood on a shrine. Police arrived before he killed her. projects.propublica.org/h2a-visa-far...
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A Farmworkers Visa Promised Her a Better Life. It Was a Trap.
Sofi left behind her child in Mexico for the promise of providing him a better life. She ended up a victim of an operation that is alleged to have exploited the H-2A visa program — and the workers it ...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16/09/2025
The U.S. Air Force has started upgrading the 747 jetliner that the government of Qatar donated to the U.S. this summer, the Air Force said in a statement this week. Industry and Pentagon officials have said the extensive upgrades could cost as much as $1 billion. nyti.ms/4prxszi
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Upgrades Begin on Plane Donated by Qatar to Serve as Air Force One
The 747 jetliner needs extensive security modifications. Some members of Congress worry that President Trump will pressure the Air Force to do the work too quickly.
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Katharine Houreld @khoureld.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The last fight for Sudan's capital. Families desperate to escape. An influx of new fighters, drugged up and fleeing defeat. And a massacre denied by RSF leadership, but then proudly owned by a commander on the ground. These were the last days in Salha. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Drugs, blood and terror: Inside a paramilitary massacre in Sudan
At least 31 people were massacred on April 27 in Salha, a neighborhood south of Khartoum, survivors said. The Post has reconstructed the events of that day.
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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
0.1% of Dartmoor in good ecological condition. And each Dartmoor ewe loses its owner £16.90 – the ecological and economic craziness of the current sheep grazing regime well explained by @chrisgpackham.bsky.social. Time to change how this amazing place is managed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Sheep are destroying precious British habitats – and we taxpayers are footing the bill | Chris Packham
Large parts of Dartmoor have been denuded of wildlife, harmed by farming and a mess of government schemes that are costly in every way, says naturalist and broadcaster Chris Packham
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Katharine Houreld @khoureld.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
A U.S. company airdropped food to empty villages in South Sudan that had been attacked by government forces. Some were too afraid to get the aid; others crept back, fearful but starving. Here's what happened next: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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U.S. entrepreneurs want to tear up the international aid system’s rulebook
Fogbow is working with combatants to deliver food to some of the world’s most desperate and inaccessible places. Aid groups warn of unintended consequences.
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Katharine Houreld @khoureld.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Children clung to life in Sudan by the slenderest of threads, supported by community soup kitchens. Then the USAID funding cuts came, and their mothers watched them starve to death one by one. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal
The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.
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Yvonne Wingett Sanchez @yvonnewingett.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
House approves Trump’s massive tax and immigration package
The legislation would extend tax cuts and add billions in new spending — and trillions in new debt. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... (Az delegation’s votes below)
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MethaneHunter @txsharon.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
U.S. methane gas can never meet the EU methane rules especially with Trump removing regulations. Everybody knew that. So... The EU has decided to create some loopholes that will make dirty US LNG appear clean. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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Exclusive: EU explores tweaking methane rules for US gas to help trade talks, sources say
The European Union is looking at ways to make it easier for U.S. gas exports to comply with its methane emissions rules, as the bloc attempts to avert a trade war with U.S. President Trump, three sources told Reuters.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 17/04/2025
"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."
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Photographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debut
The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a documentary due to be screened at the Cannes film festival next month.
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Mark Chediak @mchediak.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
White House officials are preparing executive orders that would strip some enviro nonprofits of tax-exempt status for Earth Day, by @jendlouhy.bsky.social & @akshatrathi.bsky.social 🎁 Gift Link: Trump Officials Weigh Earth Day Move Against Green Groups www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump Officials Weigh Earth Day Move Against Green Groups
White House officials are preparing executive orders that would strip some environmental nonprofits of their tax-exempt status, setting up a possible Earth Day strike against organizations seen as sta...
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Larry Neufeld @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Revealed: world’s largest meat company may break Amazon deforestation pledges again www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Revealed: world’s largest meat company may break Amazon deforestation pledges again
Brazilian ranchers in Pará and Rondônia say JBS can not achieve stated goal of deforestation-free cattle
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Katharine Houreld @khoureld.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Incredible report by @newyorker: paid providers of care in US jails have allowed inmates to die of hunger and thirst, screaming for help; one had his lower leg rot off; others eaten by rodents or insects after they died. Some "look like famine victims" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Starved in Jail
Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care?
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Katharine Houreld @khoureld.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Mary, a Kenyan HIV outreach worker, has 4 children of her own. When a colleague was murdered, she took in the 4 orphans, one HIV+. In Jan, the US suspended the programs supporting the family. The kids were thrown out of school; today, they were evicted. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Trump’s PEPFAR cuts upend the lives of Kenyan families battling HIV
U.S. aid allowed Mary, a former sex worker, to do HIV outreach work and support eight children. Her future, and the U.S.-led fight against HIV, are now in doubt.
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
New paper alert! Zombie fires overwinter, going underground to smolder through winter before reemerging. Until recently, we knew these fires occurred but knew little of their ecological or carbon impacts. Along with my amazing coauthors, we set out to change this. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Overwintering fires can occur in both peatlands and upland forests with varying ecological impacts - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Field measurements of fires burning over winter at 20 sites in the Northwest Territories of Canada and in Alaska find that such fires occur in both peatlands and upland forests, and provide informatio...
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David Enrich @davidenrich.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
How Trump is “effectively institutionalizing disinformation,” pushing a “new era of post-truth politics” that enables his administration to use fictions to promote its agenda. 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/b...
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Trump Leads a ‘Machinery’ of Misinformation in Second Term (Gift Article)
President Trump’s first four years in the White House were filled with falsehoods. Now he and those around him are using false claims to justify their policy changes.
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Katharine Houreld @khoureld.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
A dark joke in some diplomatic circles: "Call the U.S. for aid, China for trade and the Russians when you want to kill someone." - so what happens when the U.S. cuts its programs? with @robyndixon.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Trump’s global funding cuts leave a void in Africa for rivals to exploit
America’s vanishing presence in Africa has upended critical programs, severed relationships and left a vacuum that Russia and China will look to capitalize on.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/03/2025
Breaking News: The EPA plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists.
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Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate E.P.A.’s Scientific Research Arm
More than 1,000 chemists, biologists and other scientists could be laid off under a plan to dismantle the Office of Research and Development.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 18/03/2025
BREAKING: Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 235 Palestinians, according to local hospitals. Follow AP's live coverage.
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Live updates: Hundreds killed as Israel launches airstrikes across Gaza
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he ordered the strikes because of a lack of progress in talks to extend the ceasefire. Officials said the operation was open-ended and was expected to expand.
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Katharine Houreld @khoureld.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
They called him "El Hombre” — he moved cocaine by the ton. Last year, Columbian officers nabbed him after U.S. law enforcement taught them advanced skills on tracking fugitives. Now that program is shut down. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Trump’s aid freeze hampers anti-narcotics programs in Latin America
The U.S. aid freeze has upended anti-narcotics efforts in Latin America, with programs in Colombia, Mexico and Ecuador affected.
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Harry Stevens @harrystevens.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
🦋 In 20 years, the contiguous U.S. lost 22 percent of its butterflies, according to a groundbreaking new study published today. We got the data, and I made a tool that lets you find out what's happening with butterfly species in your town. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 1/3
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See How Butterfly Numbers Are Dropping Near You (Gift Article)
Populations are falling in the United States, a new study has found. Look up what’s happening in your area.
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Katharine Houreld @khoureld.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
A trove of documents and communications provided to The Post reveals how a Turkish company covertly funneled weapons to the Sudanese army - and links between the RSF and another Turkish company. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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A Turkish arms firm helped fuel Sudan’s brutal civil war, documents show
A trove of documents and communications provided to The Post reveals how a Turkish company covertly funneled weapons to the Sudanese army.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
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Rob Davis @robwdavis.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach." Salary: $120K-$140K Remote: ✅ Come join us!
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Computational Journalist
New York, New York, United States
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Katharine Houreld @khoureld.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Many have floated the idea of Christian organizations filling the gap left by USAID. But they have been devastated by the cuts, which USAID says will cost the lives of millions of young children who will die from malnutrition and easily preventable diseases. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Trump’s foreign aid demolition hits major Christian charities
In a closed-door meeting, U.S. officials touted their success in “zeroing out” foreign assistance, but the downsizing has clipped religious allies, too.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools clarksvillenow.com/local/books-...
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Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
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Katharine Houreld @khoureld.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
President Trump’s sweeping freeze on U.S. foreign assistance has threatened programs intended to counter al-Shabab bombmakers, contain the spread of al-Qaeda across West Africa and secure Islamic State prisoners in the Middle East. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Trump’s global funding freeze leaves anti-terror programs in limbo
U.S. officials say now-suspended programs across Africa were designed specifically to respond to national security threats and contain the spread of terrorism.
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Katharine Houreld @khoureld.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
We toured the expanding battlefield in Puntland, including recently discovered Islamic State caves; spoke to imprisoned IS deserters; interviewed Somali and U.S. officials; and reviewed evidence collected from captured phones and drones. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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The Islamic State has regrouped in Somalia — and has global ambitions
The Post ventured to the front lines of an offensive against the Islamic State in northern Somalia, where foreign fighters are flowing in and cash is flowing out.
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