- Associated Press
In Mali, thousands replaster the Great Mosque of Djenne, under threat from conflict
Thousands of Malians carrying buckets and jugs of mud joined the annual replastering of the world's largest mud-brick building this weekend, a key ritual that maintains the integrity of the Great Mosque of Djenne in the center of the country. Djenne’s mosque requires a new layer of mud each year before the start of the rainy season in June, or the building will fall into disrepair. As with the rest of Mali, Djenne’s tourism industry has all but completely disappeared.
- Associated Press
Status of Chinese citizen journalist who reported on COVID unknown on day of expected prison release
The whereabouts of a Chinese citizen journalist who served four years in prison for reporting on the early days of the pandemic in Wuhan and was expected to be released Monday are unknown, raising concern from activists. Zhang Zhan, who had been sentenced to four years in prison on charges of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” a vaguely defined charge often used in political cases, has finished serving her sentence at Shanghai's Women Prison. Ren Quanniu, a former lawyer who previously represented Zhang, said he could not reach her father and expressed concern that Zhang would be released only to be put under another form of control by police.
- Vols Wire
Jarrett Guarantano by the numbers against San Antonio
Former Vol Jarrett Guarantano by the numbers against San Antonio in the UFL.
