"Guardian investigation into the 72-hour attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on North Darfur’s Zamzam camp, the country’s largest for people displaced by the war, found repeated testimony of mass executions and large-scale abductions. Hundreds of civilians remain unaccounted for"
#Sudan #RSF #WarCrimes
Assault on Sudan’s Zamzam refugee camp may have killed more than 1,500 civilians | Global development | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/aug/07/zamzam-massacre-rapid-support-forces-rsf-militia-civilians-slaughtered?CMP=GTUK_email
"Lauren Harrison, a sheep farmer from Hadrian’s Wall, said: “I saw in Europe that it’s possible to live alongside lynx. The risks to livestock can be minimal and there are so many positives. Tourism is an obvious one, but I also think a more balanced ecosystem is beneficial to farmers"
Fingers crossed this goes ahead.
#Lynx #Nature #Environment #Forests
Lynx could thrive in Northumberland with most in area supporting return, study finds | Rewilding | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/07/lynx-could-thrive-in-northumberland-with-most-in-area-supporting-return-study-finds
"Our latest findings aren’t just historical curiosities; they’re an urgent warning that the children we fail to nourish today will carry those failures in their bodies for life and pass them on to their own children. The message from the medieval graves couldn’t be clearer: feed the children now or pay the price for generations"
#Gaza #Sudan #Somalia
#FeedTheChildren #Starvation
Medieval skeletons reveal the lasting damage of childhood malnutrition – new study
https://theconversation.com/medieval-skeletons-reveal-the-lasting-damage-of-childhood-malnutrition-new-study-262081
Thought for today:
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor"
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
#ThoughtforThursday
"I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence.."
Coretta Scott King
JuneSim63 💚