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Top 10 Hidden World News Stories of 2022
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- Burkina Faso records sharp decline in malaria cases and deaths
- New momentum towards peace in Cyprus?
- Debt repayments in low- and middle-income countries far exceed education spending
- Hunger deepens in northern Nigeria
- EU Supreme Court ruling: Publishing videos from Russian broadcasters is illegal
- Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger: Formal withdrawal from the ICC
- CPJ reaffirms journalist definition after Gaza database review dispute
- Why do acid attacks on women in Pakistan continue?
- The number of drug users reaches an all-time high
- Fears of mass atrocities grow in Sudan’s El Obeid
- Solving common challenges with “global public investment”
- Bosnia’s High Representative resigns: The fragile post-war order
- Sri Lanka, a new target for cyber crime organizations
- Gold-linked mercury pollution rising: Women particularly impacted
- Connection of the Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline begins
- Opposition movement against Trump’s son-in-law’s resort development in Albania
- Anti-immigrant violence escalates in South Africa
- Invisible crisis of groundwater progressing on a global scale
- Protection of strike rights under UN treaties: Advisory opinion of the ICJ
- The crisis of peacekeeping operations
- World Urban Forum (WUF) ends with call to action on global housing crisis
- Anti-government protests in Bolivia, tensions rise
- Number of death penalty executions reaches record high
- Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon slows, but forest degradation continues
- OPCW admits concealing evidence in alleged chemical attack in Syria
- France-Africa summit held
- Oil companies profiting from war
- The marshes of Iraq are rejuvenating again
- “Indigenous health and land are indivisible” – UN forum
- World Press Freedom Day (2026)
- Mauritania’s immigration measures raise concerns of abuse
- World food crisis report warns of serious food insecurity and malnutrition
- Uganda facing crisis of glacier disappearance
- Rohingya refugee deaths crossing the sea reached record high in 2025
- Democracy defence summit held in Spain
- Possible increased antibiotic resistance in infectious diseases due to drought
- Bilderberg Conference: The secretive international network
- Chagos Islands: Agreement on return from the UK to Mauritius “paused”
- Nigeria records the highest fuel price increase in Africa
- Measles surge in Bangladesh reflects global resurgence
- Mozambique fully repays debt to the IMF
- Brazil’s electronic payment system gains popularity, conflicts with the US government
- Largest national census in the world to be conducted in India for first time in 16 years
- Increasing smoke damage and fire hotspots in Southeast Asia
- The organ trafficking industry in Pakistan
- Argentina: Large-scale demonstrations against past dictatorial regime
- Tensions rise between Eritrea and Ethiopia
- Costa Rica: Expansion of illegal gold mining
- Slowing improvement in mortality rates for children under 5
- 20% of aquaculture and fishery products are misrepresented, calls for strengthened surveillance
- 88% of SDGs in the Asia-Pacific region expected to remain unachieved
- 1 in 4 adults worldwide may lose their land
- Is the goal to halve pesticide risks by 2030 impossible to achieve?
- Explosion weapon injury fatality rate found to be 40%
- The escalating drug crisis in Balochistan, Pakistan
- Cocoa surplus is becoming problematic with decline in market prices
- The population infected with trachoma reaches a record low
- Sudan: “characteristics of genocide” reported
- Achievements and challenges of PFAS regulation
- Surge in the use of child soldiers: Colombia
- Violence against civilians increases in Nigeria
- Mongolian glaciers decreasing at fastest rate in history
- Global average of corruption perception index reaches lowest point in 10 years
- Haitian provisional President Council delegates authority to interim prime minister
- Malaysia: ban on electronic waste imports
- The Horn of Africa: Drought and expanding humanitarian crisis
- WHO: Establishing global standards for school meals
- Drug trafficking route, Ecuador
- Large-scale fighting involving civilians unfolds in South Sudan
- Iraq: The toxic legacy of Fallujah
- The global “water bankruptcy” era
- Botswana: Diamond production reduction due to excess inventory
- Marine conservation goals far from being achieved
- Solutions to the climate crisis and the responsibility of the wealthy
- Bolivia: Protests over fuel subsidy abolishment conclude
- Southern Yemen independence organization disbanded?
- Intensification of communal conflicts in Gambela, Ethiopia
- The World Inequality Report reveals widening global disparities
- Helsinki: A city with no traffic fatalities for over a year
- Ongoing Arctic warming
- Algeria: Recognizing French colonial rule as a crime
- An app to improve digital literacy in Nepal
- Chile: New Anti-Terrorism Law Applied to Mapuche Youth
- Target Met Ahead of Schedule: Cervical Cancer Vaccine Reaches 86 Million Girls
- Asset managers reaping huge profits from low-income countries
- Western Indian Ocean region: Losses in the ocean
- Somalia: US airstrikes hit a record high
- India: Kerala State declares end to extreme poverty
- Mozambique: Escalating violence and a humanitarian crisis
- Billionaires’ combined net worth hits a record high
- Yemen: Separatists take control of the entire south
- Defense companies’ revenue reached a record high in 2024
- South Africa: Gender-based violence declared a national disaster
- Decline in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
- International Industry Summit: Toward a greener, more equitable world through industry
- WFP: 318 Million people at risk of a food crisis
- The reality behind the ‘Gen Z’ protests in Mexico
- Mali: Fuel shortage worsens in the capital
- Fossil fuel lobbyists’ attendance at COP30 hits record high
- Australia reaches Its first treaty with indigenous peoples
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