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Hi all, This is a quite a bleak newsletter this week, unfortunately. In Sudan, Somalia & Afghanistan crises continue; even Mayotte, a tiny French outpost between Madagascar & Mozambique, is part of European migration enforcement; another week, another #AidToo moment & the likely end of VICE News may have repercussions about how people stay informed about crises, wars & developments at the margins. It's not easy & don't have an uplifting quote handy for the weekend... My quotes of the week Some mothers are deliberately making their children sick so they can take them to government-run health centres in the city where there is a chance of obtaining free therapeutic food. Typically, they force-feed their children water mixed with detergent or salt. “I have six children, and this is the only way I can get food,” explained one mother,‘I poison my children in order to survive’ (The terrible toll of Somalia’s drought) For a few short years, Vice News looked like i