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Zambian citizens show their voting cards during Zambia’s 2011 elections. More than 7 million Zambians, or over 83% of eligible voters, have registered to vote in this week’s elections, but tensions remain high amid a tight election. (Photo by UK Department for International Development) Photo used under CC BY

Elections in Zambia test country’s democracy

Zambians are voting in tense elections that the president and his main rival have said are a test of the southern African country’s reputation as a stable democracy. More than 7 million people, or over 83% of eligible voters, have registered to vote in the elections.

Associated Press

Zambia’s democracy at ‘tipping point’ as army deployed on polling day

Guardian

Tanzania suspends newspaper for ‘false story’

The Tanzanian government suspended a local newspaper for running what it called a false story saying that President Samia Suluhu Hassan would not vie for office in 2025, the first newspaper suspension in Hassan’s tenure.

Reuters

Sex workers are among most ‘at risk activists’

Sex worker activists are among the most at risk defenders of human rights in the world. Their visibility as sex workers who are advocates for their communities’ rights makes them more vulnerable to the violations routinely suffered by sex workers.

Guardian

Interview:

‘I’m scared of being killed’: Sex worker activists speak out

Guardian

Rohingya refugees get vaccine as virus surges

Bangladesh this week started vaccinating Rohingya refugees living in congested camps housing about 850,000 refugees as the impoverished South Asian nation battles a record surge in COVID cases, officials said.

Asia Times Online

Anti-migrant protests hit Turkish capital

Anti-migrant protesters have attacked houses, shops and cars owned by Syrians in Turkey’s capital. The violence erupted this week following reports that a Syrian refugee had stabbed two Turkish men in a fight.

BBC

Fear rises as Lebanon ends fuel subsidy

The Lebanese central bank has effectively ended a fuel subsidy that had drained its foreign reserves during the ongoing economic crisis. Opponents say the decision is likely to send fuel prices skyrocketing.

Deutsche Welle

HUMAN RIGHTS

Ghana’s anti-gay bill condemns sexual minority

A Ghanaian bill criminalizing LGBTQ people will establish “a system of state-sponsored discrimination and violence” against sexual minorities, U.N. human rights experts warned, urging authorities to reject the proposed law.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Turkey detains dozens of anti-migrant rioters

The Turkish police have detained dozens of people after a mob smashed up shops and cars believed to be belonging to Syrian migrants in the capital Ankara amid growing anti-migrant sentiments.

Al Jazeera

Indonesia ends female soldier virginity tests

A decades-old “two finger” virginity test for female soldiers in Indonesia was terminated after a teenage daughter of a top general campaigned against the controversial practice.

Asia Times Online

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

China bans karaoke songs for ‘national security’

China will ban karaoke songs perceived to “endanger national security,” as state controls attempt to muzzle the mics of karaoke bars.

Asia Times Online

First Hong Kong election under revamped system to be largely uncontested

Reuters

Taliban sweep across southern Afghanistan

The Taliban captured another three provincial capitals in southern Afghanistan this week, including in Helmand, the scene of some of the heaviest fighting in the past two decades, as the insurgents press a lightning offensive.

NPR

Taliban capture two major cities, tightening grip on Afghanistan

Reuters

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Women ‘violated’ in Pegasus phone hack

Dozens of women across India, the Middle East and North Africa who were likely targeted for surveillance by governments using Pegasus spyware are now at a heightened risk of being blackmailed or harassed, tech experts and victims say.

Al Jazeera

AI tool could be used to diagnose dementia

Artificial intelligence may be able to diagnose dementia from a single brain scan. Researchers are starting a trial to test the approach.

Guardian

GLOBAL HEALTH

WHO urges China to share early COVID data

The World Health Organization has urged China to share the raw data from its earliest cases of COVID, saying it was “vitally important” to understand the virus’s origins to prevent future pandemics.

Al Jazeera

Yemen’s Houthis face COVID with denial

Houthi authorities are approaching the pandemic with such outright denial that it threatens to endanger the already vulnerable population.

Associated Press

Slow vaccinations in Iran fuel anger

Iranians are suffering through yet another surge in the COVID pandemic and anger is growing at images of vaccinated Westerners without face masks on the internet or on TV while they remain unable to get the shots.

Associated Press

Indonesia is now Asia’s pandemic hot spot

Deutsche Welle

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Algene Sajery):

To achieve inclusive growth globally, we must invest in our women

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Column (Patrick Gathara):

What is the value of a Kenyan life?

Al Jazeera

Column (Fatima Qureshi):

Muslim feminists in India, Sri Lanka push for divorce rights

Asia Times Online

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GOOD NEWS

Sisters create app to help people with scoliosis

Twin sisters Hadley and Delaney Robertson created the BraceTrack app to help people who use scoliosis braces to track their time in and out of the brace.

Good Morning America

After a year of passing by him, woman helps homeless man get back on his feet

CBS17.com

Singer’s voice comforts cancer patients

Amanda Visconti tunes her acoustic guitar and warms up her vocals, as the 25-year-old singer-songwriter prepares for her audience at Miami Cancer Institute, as a member of the Art in Medicine program.

Microsoft News

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Foundation commits $17.5M for wildfire relief

The Athens-based Stavros Niarchos Foundation has announced a $17.59 million emergency grant in support of wildfire response and relief efforts in Greece.

Philanthropy News Digest

Parents create nonprofit to find a cure for son’s rare disease

Good Morning America

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Congo’s child miners swap hammers for books

A new scheme in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which costs more than a third of its $6.8 billion budget, has enabled 4 million children to go to school, according to the education ministry.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Life grinds to a halt in Lebanon’s blackouts

Lebanon’s worsening fuel crisis has reached a painful crunch point, with bakeries, businesses and hospitals either scaling back operations or shutting down, making life even harder for Lebanese enduring a financial meltdown.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Flash floods sweep through northern Turkey

Eleven people were killed in flash floods in Turkey’s Black Sea region this week that sent water and debris cascading through through streets in the second natural disaster to strike the country this month.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Northern Turkey hit by severe flash flooding

BBC

Madagascar has worst drought in decades

The Indian Ocean island nation’s worst drought in 40 years has left hundreds of thousands of people fighting for survival as the crisis gets more dire by the day.

Deutsche Welle

Photo of the Day

A young Congolese boy walks to school in the town of Kitschoro, Democratic Republic of Congo. Recent education initiatives in Congo have helped make schooling more accessible to Congolese children. Despite these initiatives, poverty prevents millions of Congolese children from receiving an education. (Photo by M. Hofer) Photo used under CC BY

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