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In recent elections, a key tactic in curtailing opposition in Uganda has been to control access to the internet, blocking social media and messaging software. This year was no different. (Photo by Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office) Photo used under CC BY

Uganda teaches dictators controlling the web works

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni claimed that he had been re-elected for a sixth term, despite widespread allegations of fraud. In power since 1986, Museveni has defied repeated attempts to remove him, cracking down on protests and jailing potential rivals.

CNN

Dominican Republic fears total abortion ban

As Argentina becomes the first major Latin American country to legalize abortion, activists in the Dominican Republic fear their own government is banishing its women to the dark ages by upholding a ban implemented in 1884.

Guardian

Inauguration Day in US brings hope to politics

Vice President Harris has broken the barrier that has kept men at the top ranks of American power for over two centuries. Hours after she was sworn in as the first female U.S. vice president she cast the moment as one that embodied “American aspiration.”

Associated Press

Kama Harris’s ancestral village in India revels on Inauguration Day

CBS News

Biden signs executive actions aimed at undoing Trump’s legacy

PBS NewsHour

US accuses Chinese government of genocide

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has accused China of carrying out genocide against Muslim Uighurs and other minority groups in Xinjiang in a forceful statement issued on Pompeo’s last full day in his diplomatic role.

NPR

Mozambique faces Islamist insurgency, crisis

More than half a million people have fled their homes due to an Islamist insurgency in northern Mozambique, and the violence and humanitarian crisis will worsen without international help, UN officials have warned.

Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Spanish Jesuit order apologizes for abuse

The Jesuit order in Spain has admitted that 81 children and 21 adults have been sexually abused by 96 of its members since 1927, and has apologized for the “painful, shameful and sorrowful” crimes.

Guardian

UN warns of ‘serious’ rape charges in Tigray

The U.N. says “serious allegations of sexual violence” have emerged in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region, while women and girls face shortages of rape kits and HIV drugs amid restrictions on humanitarian access.

Associated Press

Why Tunisia’s youth are taking to the streets

Protests have erupted in working-class neighborhoods in across Tunisia, in response to declining living conditions, poverty and endemic unemployment, especially among the country’s young people.

Guardian

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Lawmakers seek to lock in ban on abortion

Legislators in Honduras are pushing a constitutional reform through Congress that would make it virtually impossible to legalize abortion in the country – now or in the future.

Guardian

Nigeria approves nationwide oxygen plants

Nigeria’s president has approved the release of $16.94 million to set up oxygen production plants in 38 sites to help treat COVID-19 patients as authorities contend with a sharp rise in cases.

CNN

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Google fights with Australia over proposed law

Google is threatening to pull its search engine from an entire country — Australia — if a proposed law goes into effect that would force Google to pay news publishers for their content.

The Verge

Slum dwellers battle COVID with e-currency

Sarafu, a blockchain-based community currency is helping thousands of struggling Kenyan slum dwellers pay for food, water, and sanitary items - thus avoiding becoming victims of loan sharks as they battle through COVID.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Eagle rays astonish aquarium with births

Two eagle rays have surprised New Zealand aquarists and bemused scientists by giving birth without any males in their tank. Both females had pups on New Year’s Eve despite not having been near a male in two years.

Guardian

GLOBAL HEALTH

China, WHO acted too slowly to contain COVID

China and the World Health Organization could have acted quicker and more forcefully to contain the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, an independent review panel said.

CNN

FDA approves 1st long-acting HIV drug combo

U.S. regulators have approved the first long-acting drug combo for HIV, monthly shots that can replace the daily pills now used to control infection with the AIDS virus.

Associated Press

Brazilian woman, 106, receives vaccine

A 106-year old woman was one of thousands in Brazil to get the shot, but one of very few old enough to recall an earlier viral pandemic that swept her nation and the world a century ago.

Associated Press

Africa’s long wait for the COVID-19 vaccine

Africa will have to wait “weeks if not months” before receiving Covid-19 vaccines approved by the World Health Organization, according to various officials working towards getting doses for the continent.

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Jonah Kaye):

Recognizing the Uighur Genocide was the Right Decision

MSN

Column (Lyndon Haviland):

We need a science-based plan for vaccine distribution

The Hill

Column (Robert Mardini):

Nuclear weapons are finally outlawed, next step is disarmament

Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

Activist urges people to do good things daily

A Romanian rights activist has earned praise for his tireless campaign to improve the lives of the Balkan country’s poorest and least privileged residents, particularly children.

Associated Press

Teacher builds desks for remote students

Nate Evans, a 7th grade teacher in Iowa, and 50 - plus volunteers have built roughly 600 desks after Evans noticed some kids were logged into virtual classes sitting at kitchen tables or on their beds.

Good Monring America

Boy featured at inauguration for food pantry

An 8-year-old who started his own food pantry was featured on national television as part of the “Celebrating America” special for President Joe Biden’s inauguration.

Today

The vehicle that got a village smiling

BBC

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Doctor launches nonprofit after being shot

In 2015, Peter Gold tried to help a woman in distress and was shot in the stomach. While recovering, Gold and some friends started Strong City, a nonprofit that raises money for gun violence prevention research.

MSN

Teen run nonprofit helps city’s homeless

SustainABLE Start is run by more than 80 high-schoolers across the country. Founded by Chloe Trujillo, a 17-year-old, high school senior, the organization pays special attention to the hygiene needs of the homeless population in New York City.

Norwood News

Black and Brown people get help to buy homes

D.C. real estate company Flock is trying to help shift that balance of of housing among people of color with a foundation called birdSEED, which will give home buying assistance to Black and Brown residents.

Fast Company

ENVIRONMENT

How whales help cool the Earth

Whales, particularly baleen and sperm whales, are among the largest creatures on Earth. Their bodies are enormous stores of carbon, and their presence in the ocean shapes the ecosystems around them.

BBC

Tropical Cyclone Eloise strengthens before imminent Mozambique landfall

CNN

Green living in Dubai’s Sustainable City

CNN

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

UN halts Venezuela cash transfer program

The U.N. has halted programs in Venezuela that provide cash transfers to the poor via local nonprofit organizations, due to charges against government officials for criminal association and money laundering.

Reuters

Mountain trekking to catch a signal: online learning in the Philippines

Guardian

Photo of the Day

Harnai port in Konkan is the main fishing village. Every evening hundreds of fishing boats come back after fishing and gather to auction their catch, bullock carts are driven into the sea to unload the fish and bring it to the beach where the action happens. Witnessing the fish auctions here is an awe-inspiring experience. (Photo by Cj.samson) Photo used under CC BY

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