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At least 30 people were killed in a suicide bombing in Mauduguri in North eastern Nigeria. The suspects are two teenage girls believed to be members of Boko Haram. “Abba Aji Kalli, a state security official, told The Associated Press that two girls dressed in headscarfs entered the marketplace and set off their explosives. The first detonated her bomb and killed about three people. The second girl waited until a crowd gathered and then detonated. “While the people were trying to help the injured, the second bomb blasted,” a witness, Sani Adamu, told Reuters. “I saw lots of bodies.” In July, a blast killed 56 people in the same market area in Mauduguri when a car bomb hit a group of traders and shoppers. Boko Haram has been blamed for at least five female suicide bombings in Nigeria since June, the BBC reports.” (CSM http://bit.ly/1yTKd5I)
Failure to launch…In part two of our Tom Murphy’s report on water in Tanzania, readers learn about failed efforts to bring water to the village of Lupeta. (GlobalPost http://bit.ly/1vcmygj)
Photo of the Day: The UN’s iconic headquarters, all lit up in orange for the international day to end violence agianst women (UN Dispatch http://bit.ly/1yTKFAN )
Ebola
The WHO confirmed two new ebola cases in Mali. (WHO http://bit.ly/1yTKFAN)
China, one of the first countries to send aid to battle Ebola in West Africa, ramped up the assistance significantly Tuesday by opening a 100-bed treatment center in Liberia as rows of uniformed Chinese army medics stood at attention. (AP http://yhoo.it/1vclB7z)
Burial workers in Sierra Leone have dumped dead bodies in the street outside a hospital in protest at authorities’ failure to pay bonuses for handling Ebola victims, in the latest strike to hamper the fight against the worst known outbreak of the virus. (Reuters http://bit.ly/1vcd4lc)
An Italian doctor who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone has arrived back in Italy and is being treated with the same experimental drugs used in the U.S. and other European countries to treat people infected with the virus. (AP http://yhoo.it/1CbhM96)
MSF said that the medical center in Foya, Lofa County Liberia has not recorded new admissions in the past 10 days, and since 30 October there have been no confirmed Ebola cases. MSF further disclosed that its teams are now reducing the medical center capacity from 25 to 10 beds and may eventually close down by end of November. (New Dawn http://bit.ly/1vcxiv5)
Africa
Sudan has shut the human rights office of the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur, the foreign ministry said, amid tension over allegations of mass rape by Sudanese troops in the troubled region. (Reuters http://bit.ly/1Cbcqum)
Human rights organizations have filed a complaint on behalf of 80 survivors of rape and sexual violence during the occupation of northern Mali. (VOA http://bit.ly/1vcxElv)
Kenyan police used teargas to disperse demonstrators shouting “President, Stop the killings!” outside President Uhuru Kenyatta’s offices on Tuesday, in a protest over 28 people killed in a weekend attack claimed by Islamist militants. (Reuters http://yhoo.it/1CbhZZZ)
HIV among teenagers is devastating families in Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa, where AIDS has become the leading cause of death among adolescents. (IPS http://bit.ly/1CbjkQv)
Cameroon officials say Boko Haram attacks have led to the closure of at least 130 schools near its northern border with Nigeria. Most students have left the area for safer places in the country’s interior. (VOA http://bit.ly/1CbpsrM)
Nigeria is on track to achieve sugar self-sufficiency in about 10 years’ time, which will enable Africa’s most populous country to sharply reduce imports of predominantly Brazilian raw sugar. (Reuters http://bit.ly/1CbcpXl)
MENA
Lawyers in Egypt are appealing to a higher court after two men accused of causing the death of a 13-year-old girl during an illegal circumcision were acquitted last week. (VOA http://bit.ly/1CbpuQy)
Libya’s rival government may forbid a UN official from entering the territory it controls, a move that could make it harder to negotiate an end to a violent struggle for power that threatens to tear the country apart. (Reuters http://bit.ly/1vce20L)
Asia
International health officials in Pakistan believe they can resolve the country’s polio crisis in the coming year, despite the number of cases of the crippling disease soaring to their highest level in 14 years. (Guardian http://bit.ly/1CblyiJ)
Myanmar’s army systematically uses sexual violence against women – including gang rape by soldiers – to “demoralise and destroy the fabric of ethnic [minority] communities” and establish control over resource-rich areas, according to a women’s rights group. (Guardian http://bit.ly/1vcrfGJ)
Nepal signed an agreement Tuesday for an Indian company to build a $1 billion hydroelectric plant to boost supplies in the energy-starved Himalayan nation and export power to India. (AP http://yhoo.it/1CbhjDU)
The US is preparing to increase the number of troops it keeps in Afghanistan in 2015 to fill a gap left in the NATO mission by other contributing nations, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the situation. (Reuters http://yhoo.it/1vclp8j)
Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge tribunal announced Tuesday it will suspend trial sessions until January, bowing to pressure from lawyers of one of the two defendants charged with genocide. (AP http://yhoo.it/1Cbi1RB)
China’s barriers to imports of some U.S. genetically modified crops are disrupting seed companies’ plans for new product launches and keeping at least one variety out of the U.S. market altogether. (Reuters http://yhoo.it/1vcnp0w)
This week government ministers from Southeast Asia are meeting in Bangkok to discuss how to improve official registrations of births, deaths and marriages – critical measures for providing government services. (VOA http://bit.ly/1vcwGFP)
The Americas
U.S. police are under pressure not only for the killing of an unarmed teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, for which a grand jury decided on Monday not to indict the police officer, but also for the military-style response to the sometimes violent protests that followed. (Reuters http://yhoo.it/1Cbhn6p)
Colombia’s FARC rebels freed two captured soldiers on Tuesday, the first step toward resuming stalled peace talks which the government suspended after the insurgent group took five hostages, including an army general. (Reuters http://yhoo.it/1Cbi53z)
A group of former political prisoners held captive on a Patagonian island are calling for the Chilean government to pay them compensation in a case that could help bring justice to thousands of victims of torture. (BBC http://bbc.in/1vcndhP)
The construction of gated communities on wetlands and floodplains in Greater Buenos Aires has modified fragile ecosystems and water cycles and has aggravated flooding, especially in poor surrounding neighborhoods. (IPS http://bit.ly/1CbpHmI)
Opinion/Blogs
World AIDS Day 2014: UNAIDS Shifts Its Emphasis toward Reducing New Infections (CGD http://bit.ly/1CbjvLz)
‘No quick fix to gender inequality’ as activists highlight need for more cash (Guardian http://bit.ly/1vcr7Hp)
Bangladesh’s Rohingya camps – promise or peril? (IRIN http://bit.ly/1CblWhf)
Everyday Activism Against GBV (Gender Links http://bit.ly/1vct1Yv)
What I Learned From Building An App For Low-Income Americans (FastCompany http://bit.ly/11thtpj)
Philanthropic Poverty (Jacobin http://bit.ly/1y9zQLD)
Were you paid by Monsanto? (AAEA Blog http://bit.ly/1HERRH8)
Horrific pictures of dead bodies won’t stop wars (The Guardian http://bit.ly/11thCcj)