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A girl cries near a damaged car at a site hit by what activists said were barrel bombs dropped by government forces in Aleppo’s Dahret Awwad neighborhood in 2014. “Millions of children are entering their second decade of life surrounded by war, violence, death and displacement,” says Henrietta Fore, UNICEF executive director. (Photo by Freedom House) Photo used under CC BY

4.8M children have been born into war in Syria over 9 years

More than 4.8 million children have been born into war since Syria‘s brutal conflict erupted nine years ago, the UN children’s agency has said, adding that thousands of others were killed or wounded in the conflict.

Al Jazeera

Amazon’s migrants fight to rebuild their home

Seeking escape from poverty, Shipibo-Konibo people came to Lima, Peru, in the 1990s. In 2016, fire destroyed their home. Today, families are embittered after government promises to rebuild have stagnated.

ABC News

Malaysia loses its grip on Covid-19 outbreak

A sudden spike in coronavirus infections has triggered alarm in Malaysia, with the Muslim-majority country now reporting the highest number of Covid-19 cases in Southeast Asia. The surge in infections follows a tumultuous and unexpected shift in political power.

Asia Times Online

Burkina Faso, COVID-19 fight complicated by war, displacement

Al Jazeera

Pollution levels fall in Italy in wake of coronavirus

Axios

African nations impose stricter measures as coronavirus spreads

Guardian

Will planting millions of trees help save planet?

The UK government has pledged to plant millions a year while other countries have schemes running into billions. But are these grand ambitions achievable? How much carbon dioxide do trees really pull in?

BBC

Test on monkeys gives hope for vaccine

Scientists who infected monkeys with the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 have found that those that recovered developed effective immunity from the disease – an important discovery in the race to develop a vaccine.

South China Morning Post

HUMAN RIGHTS

Muslims despair after police implicated

In the weeks that have followed riots in Delhi, the alleged bias of the police has extended to accusations of a cover-up to protect the Hindu rioters and a widespread refusal to file or investigate complaints by Muslim victims.

Guardian

Uighur kids find haven at boarding school

In the past six years, thousands of Uighur’s have sought refuge and settled in Turkey. Among them are hundreds of children — estimates vary between 350 and 700 — whose parents have disappeared in China.

NPR

One ships mission to save refugees at sea

The mission of the “Ocean Viking” is to save as many refugees as possible at sea. But when the ship’s volunteer crew wanted to bring 300 people to land, their boat was quarantined in Italy, allegedly because of corona virus.

Deutsche Welle

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

China urges US to lift sanctions on Iran

China urges the US to lift sanctions on Iran immediately amid the the coronavirus outbreak. The escalating outbreak in Iran, the worst-affected country in the Middle East, has killed 853 people and infected 14,991.

Reuters

Pompeo warns China not to spread rumors

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday warned his Chinese counterpart against spreading “outlandish rumors” about the coronavirus pandemic.

The Hill

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Game inspires crafty way around censorship

Minecraft, the popular video game that lets kids enter a virtual world and build just about anything with “digital Legos,” is now being tapped as a way to get censored journalism to people in repressive countries.

MSN

New bug species named after Lady Gaga

A graduate student named a new species of bug after Lady Gaga. Kaikaia gaga is a new species of treehopper — a group of insects that rival the pop star’s famed sense of style with their “wacky” appearance.

CBS News

GLOBAL HEALTH

Coronavirus cases spread across Africa

Africa is seeing a steady spread of the coronavirus across the continent, with five new countries confirming cases, so that 24 of Africa’s 54 countries have COVID-19 patients.

U.S. News & World Report

Coronavirus poses challenge for Africa

The coronavirus outbreak is no longer a threat for Africa, it is now a reality as more and more countries on the continent have cases.

BBC

Sepsis — a common cause of death from coronavirus

Deutsche Welle

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Rose Aslan):

What Islamic hygienic practices can teach when coronavirus is spreading

The Conversation

Column (Patrick Gathara):

Africa does not need to ‘burn down the house’ to defeat COVID-19

Al Jazeera

Column (Scott Cullinane):

Could sub-Saharan Africa be what unites the US and Europe?

The Hill

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GOOD NEWS

Soccer club teams help find missing children

Italian soccer club, AS Roma, has teamed up with charities around the globe to bring attention to missing children cases as they announce new players who sign to the club.

Inside Edition

Skate park in India brings children together

Guardian

Cop spends lunch break with homeless woman

When Officer Michael Rivers came upon a homeless woman he had never seen before, he said hello and ended up grabbing pizzas and shared them sitting on the grass.

CNN

Vans releases Autism Awareness Collection

Vans has released a new footwear collection designed specifically with autism spectrum disorder in mind.

CNN

Western fairy tales rewritten for Muslim kids

Fawzia Gilani-William, a teacher in the U.K. recognized the discomfort of Muslim children putting themselves in the characters of Snow White, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty so she rewrote them as “mirror stories.”

Ozy

NONPROFIT & PHILANTHROPY

Maryland family gives away free toilet paper

Grosh bought 10 cases of toilet paper containing 96 rolls each, loaded them onto his pickup truck and headed for a big parking lot to hand out rolls to anyone who wanted them.

SunnySkyz

NBA teams, players help pay arena workers

Shortly after the NBA suspended play Mavericks owner Marc Cuban said that he would set up a payment plan for his stadium’s hourly workers, an initiative that has been co-opted throughout the sports world.

Sports Illustrated

NBA players are donating money to cover salaries of hourly workers amid suspended season

CNN

ENVIRONMENT

This plant could help soak up oil spills

A company in Benin is harvesting water hyacinths which can be used to soak up oil in an easy, cost-effective way.

BBC

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

Tanzanian husbands may have to pay wives

A senior government official in Tanzania is planning to petition Parliament to introduce a bill that seeks to have husbands literally pay their wives at the end of the month.

allAfrica.com

In Taiz, all roads to a normal life are blocked

Once Yemen’s capital of culture, the city is split between Houthi and government control – and a drive that used to take five minutes now takes five hours.

Guardian

Food prices soar in Sudan amid fuel Shortages

allAfrica.com

Photo of the Day

Children have walked for weeks across the desert to get to Dadaab, Kenya, and many perish on the way. Others have died shortly after arrival. On the edge of the camp, a young girl stands amid the freshly made graves of 70 children, many of whom died of malnutrition. Shot in 2011. (Photo by Andy Hall/Oxfam) Photo used under CC BY

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