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A malnourished child waits for emergency medical assistance from the African Union Mission in Somalia. (Photo by UN Photo/Stuart Price) Photo used under CC BY

Africa on track to miss childhood hunger goal

Exceptionally detailed maps of child growth and education across Africa suggest that no single country is set to end childhood malnutrition by 2030. That target was set by the UN as a Sustainable Development Goal.

BBC

Shrinking Lake Chad to worsen hunger crisis in Africa

Al Jazeera

Rains promise further misery for Rohingya

With the monsoon season nearing in Bangladesh, refugees living in makeshift shelters after fleeing Myanmar face a major risk from floods and landslides.

Guardian

Fellow Nobel Peace Laureates Blame Myanmar‘s Aung San Suu Kyi for Rohingya ’Genocide’

TIME

The toxic outpost where poorest are ‘sent to die’

A former fishing village to the east of India’s great metropolis, Mumbai, is now home to 30,000 people who were rehabilitated after their slum homes were demolished to make way for infrastructure projects.

Guardian

Can governments protect human rights?

Al Jazeera

US wealth inequality at a historic level

A new study has examined how far the nation has come since the findings of a landmark U.S. report on race and poverty released in 1968.

Al Jazeera

Critics slam trafficking of Moroccan maids

Controversy surrounds Saudi Twitter ads depicting Moroccan women for sale as domestic servants in the oil-rich kingdom. The case highlights the mistreatment and abuse of foreign workers in Saudi Arabia.

Deutsche Welle

Rights groups decry ‘anti-Muslim’ bills in US

A spate of bills in state legislatures across the United States have been decried by civil rights groups as Islamophobic.

Al Jazeera

Anti-Muslim hate crimes in London soared by 40% in a year

Evening Standard

HUMAN RIGHTS

Jinping beefs up his anti-corruption crackdown

The next phase of Chinese President Xi Jinping‘s anti-corruption crackdown will see almost five times as many officials in Beijing under the state’s watchful eye, officials said

NBCNews.com

Racial disparities in incarceration narrowing

While there continue to be significant racial disparities in local jail incarceration rates, the gap between rates for African Americans and white Americans is narrowing, a report from the Vera Institute of Justice finds.

Philanthropy News Digest

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

N. Korea sent chemical weapons parts to Syria

North Korea has reportedly sent ballistic missile and chemical weapons components to Syria in violation of U.N. sanctions, according to a draft of a new report authored by U.N. experts.

NPR

Benjamin Netanyahu linked to another graft probe

CNN

Afghan president offers to recognise the Taliban

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has offered to recognize the Taliban as a legitimate political group, as part of a proposed process he said could lead to talks aimed at ending more than 16 years of war.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Did dark matter make the early universe chill?

Scientists have probed a period of the universe’s early history that no one has been able to explore before — and they got a surprise: It was far colder in the young universe that astronomers had previously believed, before the first stars blinked on.

NPR

AI will create new jobs but skills must shift

AI will create more jobs than it destroys was the not-so-subtle rebuttal from tech giants to growing concern over the impact of automation technologies on employment.

TechCrunch

Mind-reading AI to guess what you’re looking at

New Scientist

GLOBAL HEALTH

Standing might be just as bad for you as sitting

Australian researchers found that standing at a desk might be just as bad for you as sitting at one. In the study, volunteers reported physical discomfort in all areas of their body that increased the longer they stood.

FOX 8

Lassa fever cases rise to 317, surpass 2017 total

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed that the cases of Lassa fever from January 1 this year have risen to 317 as of February 25, exceeding the total number of confirmed cases recorded in 2017.

allAfrica.com

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Nicholas W. Allard):

Florida’s student-survivors: The new face of law and lobbying in America

The Hill

Column (Joscha Weber):

IOC’s deal with Russia was a setup

Deutsche Welle

Editorial (Editorial Board):

On guns, companies step in where Congress fears to tread

USA TODAY

Column (Andrea Mammone):

Can anything save Italy from a return to fascism?

CNN

Column (Amal Ahmed):

We can’t truly protect the environment unless we tackle social justice issues, too

Popular Science

Column (Andrew Weiss):

Are Mexico‘s elections Russia’s next target?

The Atlantic

Column (Lawrence Douglas):

The Democratic party is now publicly attacking progressive candidates

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

5 reasons compassion feels so good

At the lowest points in our lives, the presence and care of one supportive person can be life-changing. Our pain or loss may be just as real, but we suffer less knowing we’re not alone.

Psychology Today

Parent play boosts language in nonverbal kids

Children with autism who speak few or no words improve in their verbal abilities after their parents learn to engage them in conversation during play, according to a study.

Spectrum

Little girl has sweetest reaction when told mom is pregnant

MSN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Court upholds donor-disclosure requirement

An appeals court upheld the dismissal of a legal challenge to New York’s requirement that charities disclose their major donors as part of registration requirements to solicit contributions in the state.

NonProfit Times

Alliance to Launch community challenge

My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, an initiative of the Obama Foundation, has launched a challenge to boost the impact of community-based solutions that have been effective in improving life outcomes for boys and young men of color.

Philanthropy News Digest

Steph Curry to auction shoes in support of My Brother’s Keeper

WTOP

ENVIRONMENT

Flood risk from rivers is underestimated

A groundbreaking new study has found that 41 million Americans are at risk from flooding rivers, which is more than three times the current estimate -- based on regulatory flood maps -- of 13 million people.

ScienceDaily

Bomb cyclone’ -- with a huge flood risk -- is aiming for the Northeast

CNN

Pesticides put bees at risk, watchdog confirms

Most uses of insecticides known as neonicotinoids represent a risk to wild bees and honeybees, the European Food Safety Authority has confirmed.

BBC

ECONOMY

IMF warns Nigeria over falling real GDP

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is skeptical of the growth being recorded in the Nigerian economy and believes Nigeria will “muddle through” with its economic policies in the medium term.

allAfrica.com

China tops global economic growth in 2017

China contributed 30 percent to global economic growth in 2017, well above the United States, the European Union and Japan, said a report from the National Bureau of Statistics.

Telesur

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Teenage Syrian girls take part in a discussion about children’s rights at a community center in Lebanon. (Photo by Russell Watkins/UK Department for International Development) Photo used under CC BY

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