Adan Mohammed Adan

The veteran leader was declared on Saturday the winner of Uganda’s presidential election, cementing his position among the world’s longest-serving leaders.

The results, which have been rejected by the opposition, followed one of the bloodiest campaigns in years, with at least 54 people killed in November as security forces violently broke down opposition protests. Opposition figures, meanwhile, were repeatedly harassed and arrested, while members of the media also came under attack.

Main opposition leader Bobi Wine has dismissed the electoral process as a rigged “sham”, but Museveni, in a televised address to the nation on Saturday, said Thursday’s polls may turn out to be Uganda’s “most cheating-free election” since independence from the United Kingdom in 1962.

Last week, Twitter permanently suspended President Donald Trump's account – and over the weekend quickly shut down the President's attempts to jump to alternate accounts including the official POTUS account. The president also faced a ban from social media giant Facebook.

And it wasn't just President Trump who was in essence silenced, as over the weekend, Amazon shut down the web servers to Parler, the Twitter alternative that had attracted a large conservative following.

In the case of President Trump it has been used at times as his primary way to reach his supporters. While there is no denying that the President has posted information that is far from truthful, the issue is whether that actually warrants his being silenced.

There’s a growing body of evidence that what is happening, that the content policies on the big networks are fueling the cultural divide and a lot of the polarization and civil unrest.

Zhang Zhan is one of a number of people facing trial for exposing the initial chaos of Wuhan’s COVID-19 response.

A Chinese citizen journalist held since May for her livestream reporting from Wuhan as the COVID-19 outbreak unfolded was sentenced to four years in prison on Monday, almost a year after details of an “unknown viral pneumonia” surfaced in the central China city.

Zhang Zhan, a former lawyer, was accused of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” for her reporting in the chaotic initial stages of the outbreak.

The big picture: If you're reading this in Europe, the U.S. or one of several other wealthy countries, you will probably have access to a vaccine in 2021. But if you're in a lower-income country, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, you could be waiting until 2023.

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#EndSARS is not just a hashtag, it means life and death to many Nigerians, especially the youth. So whether it is by sharing what is happening, protesting in your city or signing petitions. There are many ways for those of us in the diaspora, to support a movement that is not a Nigerian problem but a human one. Organisations like SARS should be made a clear example of, that the majority cannot stand for this type of violence and treatment of the innocent.

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The EU has given tens of millions of euros to enforce border control and boost the Nigerien police which was tasked with stopping migrants trying to cross into Libya. In April, the EU also pledged 90 million euro ($107m) for "improved migration management" in Libya.

The Italian government gave the Libyan Coast Guard new boats and millions of euros to support their operations. It has done so disregarding accusations that its forces are rounding up migrants and refugees and sending them to prisons, with widespread abuses at all stages.

One Libyan coast guard commander even told Human Rights Watch in April that the use of force against migrants was "necessary to control the situation as you cannot communicate with them". In May 2017, volunteer rescuers reported that the Libyan Coast Guard opened fire during a refugee "rescue" operation in international waters.

The support for the Libyan Coastal Guard and its violent ways has somewhat curbed the number of boats attempting the trip across the Mediterranean. But that has meant that there are more people now in Libya who are at risk of exploitation, torture and slavery at the hands of smugglers or armed groups.

The United Nations has condemned the EU helping the Libyan authorities detain migrants and has described its actions as "inhuman". UN monitors visited some of the detention centres in Libya and were "shocked" by what they saw. They found "thousands of emaciated and traumatized men, women and children piled on top of each other, locked up in hangars with no access to the most basic necessities, and stripped of their human dignity"; they found out that beatings and rape were commonplace.

At the same time, NGOs are being forced to abandon what they view as their moral obligations, with devastating consequences. The Italian government made NGOs involved in search and rescue operations sign a "code of conduct" not to enter Libyan territorial waters and not to obstruct Libyan Coast Guard's operations. The EU has engaged in smear campaigns against NGOs conducting search and rescue operations, accusing them of "unintentionally helping" smugglers while providing no evidence for that claim.

As the EU continues to pour millions of its taxpayers' money into security policies violating human rights transit countries, the death rate of migrants and refugees crossing the Mediterranean continues to increase.

This day is celebrated because it is necessary to make people aware and united to support the justice and also to promote the rights of the victims. This day also attracts people around the world to pay attention on the serious issues. It also to protect people from several crimes and also warn those people who affect the peace, security and well being of the nation at risk.