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Kenyan Maasai perform traditional songs and dance during the opening ceremony of the Pre-Global Entrepreneurship Summit on July 22, 2015. The Maasai are known for centuries as fearsome hunters and warriors, holding a once-in-a-decade ceremony where a warrior becomes an elder. (Photo by MEAACT PHOTO / Stuart Price) Photo used under CC BY

Kenya’s Maasai men rejoice in rare, historic celebration

Thousands of Maasai men clad in red and purple shawls and with their heads coated in red ocher gathered this week for a ceremony that transforms them from Moran, warriors, to Mzee, elders. The ceremony occurs once every decade with over 15,000 men in attendence.

CNN

Ghana’s Togoland region declares sovereignty

Ghana’s Western Togoland region is predominately wedged between Lake Volta and the Ghana-Togo border. Currently, a number of splinter groups are demanding the area be recognized as a sovereign state.

Deutsche Welle

Is democracy in Africa at risk?

Deutsche Welle

Virus catastrophe stalks cramped refugee camps

Throughout the pandemic, an abiding fear had stalked the world’s most vulnerable populations. Now, refugees living in already cramped, unhygienic conditions, face a health catastrophe as infections rise

Guardian

New camp for refugees in Greece is a disaster

Deutsche Welle

Africa’s virus progress brings complacency

As the global death toll from COVID-19 approaches 1 million, Zimbabwe and several other African countries have not experienced the widespread surges and many deaths that were predicted. That has invited complacency.

ABC News

Africa‘s CDC chief explains continent’s low death rate

CNN

China administers untested COVID-19 vaccine

Chinese companies drew attention to administering their vaccine before human trials had even begun. In recent months, they have injected a far larger number under an emergency use designation approved in June.

Associated Press

America’s summer of mass protests, pandemic

Pandemic, the death of George Floyd and an upcoming election were just a few things that have called Americans to action. But while some called 2020 the apocalypse, others said it is a much needed look in the mirror.

NBCNews.com

HUMAN RIGHTS

Migrants died after ‘inadequate’ care at ICE

At U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities operated by for-profit contractors, detainees “often do not receive critical treatment or face delays,” an inquiry found.

CNN

Salvadoran freed after 6 years for stillbirth

A woman sentenced to 30 years in jail after a stillbirth that was judged to be her fault has been released from jail in El Salvador. Cindy Erazo, 29, from San Salvador, was granted conditional freedom after six years in jail.

Guardian

Indian boy’s death spotlights bonded labor

The death of an 8-year-old boy whose parents worked as bonded laborers has triggered demands for authorities to crack down on thousands of other suspected cases in nearby villages in central India.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Indonesia’s Islamic school fights for transgender rights

Deutsche Welle

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Chad halts lake’s world heritage status request

Chad has asked to suspend an application for world heritage site status for Lake Chad to explore oil and mining opportunities in the region, it can be revealed.

Guardian

Anwar on the verge of countercoup in Malaysia

Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim claimed to have secured the parliamentary majority needed to form a new federal government in a surprise announcement signaling another change of government.

Asia Times Online

Saudi Arabia dissidents launch opposition party

A group of Saudi dissidents exiled in Britain, the U.S. and elsewhere announced the launch of an opposition party the first organized political resistance to King Salman’s rule.

CBS News

China’s Sri Lanka foothold a dilemma for India

From all appearances, a renewed U.S.-Indian move is afoot to undermine China’s Belt and Road projects in Sri Lanka, especially the flag carrier – Colombo Port City.

Asia Times Online

India, China stop sending troops to border

CNN

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Facebook appeals New Delhi government

Amid global tensions, Facebook appealed to India‘s Supreme Court to exempt it from facing a New Delhi government committee investigating the company’s alleged role in religious riots in the city earlier this year.

CNN

Bus-sized asteroid to pass close to Earth

As interstellar traffic goes, this is a close one. According to a report in The Independent, an asteroid the size of a mini-bus is set to fly past Earth in the coming hours.

Asia Times Online

GLOBAL HEALTH

Airport trials dogs as COVID-19 detectors

Dogs specially trained to detect COVID-19 have started sniffing passengers as part of a trial at Finland’s Helsinki-Vantaa airport. Volunteers are training a team of 15 dogs and 10 instructors for the research program.

BBC

Prison ‘like a torture chamber’ for inmates with COVID-19

NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Hannah L Drake):

Black women will fight another day. Not just for Breonna Taylor, but for ourselves

Guardian

Column (Dr. Deane Waldman):

The ongoing collapse of US health care

The Hill

Editorial:

Online learning cannot just be for those who can afford its technology

Nature

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GOOD NEWS

Ugandan cafe creates jobs for deaf workers

A coffee chain in Uganda has opened a cafe staffed by deaf people. The chain says it wants to serve the deaf, and create jobs for this marginalized group.

Deutsche Welle

This ‘hero rat’ saves lives by hunting landmines

MSN

School principals band together for ‘Good Trouble’

Yahoo! News

Maasai gather for once-in-decade ceremony

Maasai men from all over Kenya and Tanzania, clad in red and purple shawls and with their heads coated in red ocher gathered for a ceremony that transforms them from Moran (warriors) to Mzee (elders).

CNN

Sir David Attenborough breaks Instagram record for fastest time to reach one million followers

Guinness World Records

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Nonprofits create ‘hiring halls’ for day laborers

A network of 55 nonprofits has emerged to help organize and support day laborers disadvantaged by the pandemic.

Nonprofit Quarterly

The organization planting 15M trees a month

A Plus

ENVIRONMENT

Thai park mailing people’s trash back to them

After campers left a mess at Khao Yai National Park in Thailand, officials have decided on a novel approach to discouraging making a mess: sending the garbage right back to where it came from.

Vice

Egypt’s water shortage affects farmers most

With Nile water insufficient and now in question, Egypt’s government is mandating a switch to water-saving drip and sprinkler irrigation which is affecting farmer needs.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

The plan to save the Arctic ice with glass

The fear that action to combat climate change has been too slow has led some scientists to test unconventional methods to stem the loss of Arctic sea ice.

BBC

88 whales rescued from Australia’s beaches

Authorities have rescued 88 pilot whales and are attempting to free 20 others that survived Australia’s worst mass stranding, as crews prepare to remove 380 decomposing carcasses from the water.

ABC News

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

VW to compensate workers over Brazil torture

Workers and their families sued the carmaker five years ago over human rights violations. A 2016 review found that VW agents gave employees’ names to police hunting for people described as “subversives”.

BBC1

World’s workers lost $3.5 T in COVID: UN

Asia Times Online

Palm oil labor abuses linked to top brands

The AP interviewed more than 130 current and former workers from two dozen palm oil companies who came from eight countries and labored on plantations across wide swaths of Malaysia and Indonesia.

Associated Press

Photo of the Day

A medical professional rests after 12 hours without a break at San Salvatore Hospital in Pesaro, Italy. San Salvatore has been at the top of the COVID-19 contagion and death charts. (Photo by Alberto Giuliani) Photo used under CC BY

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