The Daily Source: Quality News from Around the Internet

Home

About us

Our Team

Opinion

At a refugee camp in Bangladesh, Rohingya children draw pictures of what they witnessed in Myanmar. Over one million Rohingya refugees have fled violence in Myanmar in successive waves of displacement since the 1990s, according to the UN Refugee Agency, with 90% living in Bangladesh and Malaysia. (Photo by Anna Dubuis /DFID) Photo used under CC BY

Myanmar refugees sent back to war-torn country

The UN urged Myanmar’s neighbors to stop the forced return of refugees and asylum seekers, saying “countless lives” were being placed at risk. Myanmar has been in turmoil since a military coup last year, with swathes of the country engulfed by fighting.

i24 News

Myanmar military decapitated volunteer teacher

The Independent

South Sudan floods leave refugees without food

Devastating floods in South Sudan are blocking aid from reaching displaced people, the UN said, warning that a camp housing 75,000 refugees would receive no food this month.

i24 News

South Sudan devastated after historic floods

YouTube

Industrial pollution in river plaguing villagers in India

In an Indian village outside of the capital, about a third of the youth are sick; contaminated drinking water is destroying their health, villagers say. Hundreds across the region are suffering from stunted growth, liver diseases, cancers and critical deformities.

Al Jazeera

Afghan women struggling for right to divorce

Afghan women have always struggled for the right to divorce. Since the Taliban takeover, the situation has worsened, as there is a lack of women in the judiciary, creating a gender gap in accessibility, a rights group said.

Al Jazeera

UN: Humanitarian crisis dire in Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso’s humanitarian situation has become so dire that women and children have only eaten leaves and salt for weeks, a UN official said, as insecurity and blockades leave communities cutoff from the country.

Associated Press

Burkina Faso coup leader sworn in as transition president

YouTube

Document details scale of abuses in Ethiopia

Dozens of women and girls have been raped and hundreds of civilians killed during fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, according to an official document. The document did not state who was responsible for the sexual violence.

Associated Press

HUMAN RIGHTS

170 killed in tribal clashes in Sudan’s Blue Nile

Tribal clashes in Sudan‘s southern province of Blue Nile have killed 170 people, two Sudanese officials said, the latest in inter-communal violence across the country’s neglected south.

ABC News

Malawi finds mass grave of Ethiopian migrants

Authorities in Malawi have discovered a mass grave containing the remains of 25 people suspected to be migrants from Ethiopia.

Guardian

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Ethiopia announces date for Tigray peace talks

The Ethiopian government said the African Union scheduled a new date for peace talks to resolve the Tigray conflict. An AU bid to bring the warring sides to the negotiating table earlier this month had already failed.

Deutsche Welle

NASA shows Ethiopia war zone from space

BBC

UN passes Haiti sanctions, targets gang leader

The UN Security Council approved sanctions allowing it to impose an asset freeze, travel ban and arms embargo on those who threaten the peace or stability of Haiti, naming the country’s most powerful gangster as its first target.

Reuters

Nations consider sending troops to Haiti

NPR

Over 100 Haitian migrants found on uninhabited island

Al Jazeera

N. Korea fires shells as warning to South Korea

North Korea fired hundreds of artillery shells as a warning to its southern neighbor. South Korea slammed the shelling, which landed in maritime buffer zones on its western and eastern coasts, short of entering South Korean territory.

i24 News

Iran to deliver more drones, missiles to Russia

Iran promised to provide Russia with surface-to-surface missiles, in addition to more drones, a move likely to stoke tensions with the West.

i24 News

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

India site removes Meta investigation after row

An Indian news website has removed four investigative reports it published on Meta, which said a member of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party had privileges on Instagram to have posts removed.

BBC

US citizen jailed in Saudi Arabia for tweets

A U.S. citizen jailed in Saudi Arabia is being punished for “mild” Twitter posts on topics that include the war in Yemen and the 2018 killing of the journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, his son said.

i24 News

GLOBAL HEALTH

Ugandan Ebola outbreak ‘rapidly evolving’

Uganda’s Ebola outbreak is “rapidly evolving” a month after the disease was reported in the East African country, a top World Health Organization official said, describing a difficult situation for health workers.

Associated Press

Zimbabwe first to approve HIV prevention drug

Zimbabwe has become the first country in Africa and the third in the world to approve an HIV prevention drug recently recommended by the World Health Organization.

Guardian

Black Death still impacts our immune systems

Our Medieval ancestors left us with a biological legacy: Genes that helped them survive the Black Death have made us more susceptible to certain diseases today, a new study shows.

CBC News

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Site edited by: Sean Vigilante, Catherine Lux and Rachel Barrus.

GOOD NEWS

Ugandan female pilot inspires young women

Uganda has one of the lowest rates of women aviators, but trailblazing enthusiasts are changing the perception, with more women joining the male-dominated industry.

AfricaNews

US museums return looted treasures to Nigeria

Three American museums will return 31 Benin bronzes from their respective collections to Nigeria, marking the latest milestone in a movement to return looted treasures.

CNN

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Donors have ‘forgotten’ region in DR of Congo

Violence has resurged in DRC’s Djugu territory, fueling a dire humanitarian crisis with tens of thousands displaced. Donor funding is limited and often sent to “more eye-catching crises," an aid worker said.

Devex

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Ghana traders close shops to protest economy

Traders in the Ghanaian capital closed their shops to protest worsening economic conditions as inflation surges despite repeated rate hikes by the central bank.

Reuters

Senegal to cut dependence on Asian imports

With concern growing over food security across Africa, Senegal’s dependence on imports is now in focus as it works to match rice production with a growing population.

Reuters

Nigerians ‘flee’ in pre-election brain drain

Departing workers are impacting nearly every sector in Nigeria, with many citing unprecedented nationwide insecurity, 17-year-high inflation and a loss of faith in leaders before the February 2023 presidential election.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Crisis looms in Nigeria as floods destroy crops

Across Nigeria, crops of sorghum, maize, rice and vegetables were destroyed by floods as farmers warn of a possible food crisis.

AfricaNews

Nigerian firm can’t ship natural gas after flooding

Associated Press

Aid workers struggling to reach victims

YouTube

Chad declares state of emergency amid floods

Chad’s president has declared a state of emergency over flooding that is affecting more than a million people.

Al Jazeera

US-Mexico border blocks movement of animals

The U.S.-Mexican border wall is blocking the movement of wild animals and damaging the delicate local ecosystem, conservationists have warned, causing a possible “ecocide."

Euronews

Greece’s electrical grid running on renewables

The Greek electrical system has hit a new milestone, after running completely on “clean” renewable energy for the first time.

NPR

Photo of the Day

Residents rally against control by Islamic militants in Timbuktu, Mali. The security situation remains “volatile” in the country, as there has been a sharp increase in activities by extremists, the UN special envoy for Mali said. (Photo by Magharebia) Photo used under CC BY

DailySource Most Popular

Features

About us

Ways to help

Other