Madagascar president re-elected as opposition denounces irregularities (www.aljazeera.com)
Good and Cheap, a cookbook for those with a small budget (books.leannebrown.com)
I designed these recipes to fit the budgets of people living on SNAP, the US program that used to be called food stamps. If you’re on SNAP, you already know that the benefit formulas are complicated, but the rule of thumb is that you end up with $4 per person, per day to spend on food.
A food writer celebrates the tastes of her hometown: Lagos, Nigeria (theworld.org)
her cookbook, My Everyday Lagos: Nigerian Cooking at Home and in the Diaspora
The death of Jezebel is the end of an era of feminism. We’re worse off without it (www.theguardian.com)
Advertisers Don’t Want Sites Like Jezebel to Exist (www.404media.co)
Facebook workers in Kenya ‘not paid for six months’ (www.opendemocracy.net)
Biden expected to meet with China's Xi Jinping next month (www.nbcnews.com)
'They're just not enough': Students push to improve sexual assault prevention trainings for college men (19thnews.org)
Argentina’s gig workers are rallying against regulation — and supporting the libertarian candidate (restofworld.org)
The zero-waste city: what Kiel in Germany can teach the world (www.theguardian.com)
Microfinance was meant to help the world’s poor, but in Cambodia, it’s plunging people deeper into debt (theworld.org)
Why Vegan Desserts Are the Best They’ve Ever Been (www.eater.com)
Protests in Guatemala Shut Down the Country for More Than a Week (progressive.org)
France bans all pro-Palestinian demonstrations (www.bbc.com)
Sex worker feminism: Anti-sex work feminists endanger the lives of sex workers and prop up the far right. To fight fascism, the left must adopt a sex worker feminist politic. (briarpatchmagazine.com)
Israeli death toll passes 600, another 2,048 injured (www.timesofisrael.com)
Israel strikes Gaza tower as death tolls jump after Hamas attack (www.aljazeera.com)
At least 198 Palestinians killed in Israeli air raids; Hamas attack kills 70 Israelis, ‘big number’ also captured.
‘Gobsmackingly bananas’: scientists stunned by planet’s record September heat (www.theguardian.com)
UK could rent space in foreign jails to ease shortage of cells (www.theguardian.com)
UN Security Council approves sending a Kenya-led force to Haiti to fight violent gangs (apnews.com)
Divided loyalties (africasacountry.com)
Somalia’s political landscape is increasingly fragmented due to regional and clan differences. Is this the end of the centralized state and a unified, national identity?
Small island nations take high-emitting countries to court to protect the ocean (www.theguardian.com)
Edible Insects: In Europe, a Growing Push for Bug-Based Food (e360.yale.edu)
