Global Disease Outbreaks: A 2025 Snapshot and Implications for the U.S.

Each year, there are multiple infectious disease outbreaks (defined as the occurrence of cases of disease in excess of what is expected) throughout the world. Some of these become severe and have global and domestic implications, including, most...

Tanzania’s Unfree Election

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: Tanzanians head to the polls under an increasingly repressive regime, Cameroon and Ivory Coast crack down on postelection protests, and the Sudanese city of El Fasher falls to the...

World news in brief: funding cuts hamper development, human rights update in Belarus, Ebola and pox in Africa

Speaking in Geneva, she said the world was facing “a decline in respect for human rights and multilateralism”, with conflict, debt and a decline in development aid threatening to wipe out hard-won gains. The OECD, a 38-member economic cooperation...

A Lawless Trump Administration Runs Amok in the Caribbean

In his epic new history of the Western Hemisphere, America, América, Greg Grandin recounts how the great Cuban revolutionary José Marti encountered Thucydides’ account of Athens’s victory in the Peloponnesian War. Athens had laid siege to Melos, a...

Bright Stars or Broken Stars? Inside the crisis failing the national football team

Adau Leek, the Spokesperson of South Sudan Football Federation (SSFF) - Photo credit: Facebook Profile/SSFF JUBA, South Sudan (Eye Radio) – The Bright Stars were supposed to be the guiding light of South Sudan. But after two crushing defeats and...

Syrian man held by ICE in Arizona for 2 years now faces third-country removal

Syrian national Kamel Maklad has been held in immigration detention in Arizona for more than two years. But last month, he spent about 30 minutes in a Venezuelan airport, after the U.S. put him on a deportation flight with almost 200 Venezuelans,...

President Kiir Heads to UAE to Boost Trade, Woo Investors

By Kei Emmanuel Duku President Salva Kiir Mayardit departed Juba on Saturday afternoon for an official diplomatic visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), with the primary goal of strengthening bilateral relations and securing vital economic...

Lake state declares disarmament in Rumbek

By Jacob Onuha Nelson Lake states government has declared disarmament in Rumbek County. In an exclusive interview with this outlet on Tuesday, Koji Korjik, the Acting State Minister of Information and Communication confirmed the ongoing...

Inside Uganda’s highway of death

The mangled wreckage of the Nile Star coach that was involved in a devastating crash with another bus (Planet) in the early morning hours of Oct.22 in Kiryandongo District along the Kampala-Gulu Highway. COURTESY PHOTO/UGANDA RED CROSS SOCIETY. A...

Protestant Agency for Diakonia and Development Horn of Africa

Regional OfficeCall for Consultancy ServiceFinancial Capacity Assessment of Afar Pastoralist Development Association (APDA) Background of Financing Agency (BftW)Bread for the World (BftW) is an international development agency owned by the...

The Post-Gaza Rebalancing in the Middle East

The fragile ceasefire in Gaza reflects accelerating recalibration in the Middle East, as U.S. military maneuvers are giving way – so the story goes – to economic development promoted by the Arab states, China and the Global South. On October 9,...

Tore community conditionally agrees to Lantoto National Park Conservation

Author: Reporter | Published: 6 hours ago A herd of buffaloes spotted in the distance at Lantoto National Park in Tore Payam, Yei River County - Courtesy The Land Committee in Tore Payam, Yei River of Central Equatoria says the community has...

President Kiir dismisses army chief, makes series of ministerial changes

Author: Lasuba Memo | Published: 3 hours ago President Salva Kiir |Courtesy JUBA, South Sudan (Eye Radio) – President Salva Kiir has dismissed the country’s Chief of Defence Forces and announced changes across several government ministries,...

IOM steps up Ebola, mpox preparedness across Africa

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is scaling up its health response across Africa, responding swiftly to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) this past September. IOM is also supporting mpox...

Sudanese refugees in Uganda find safety opportunity and hope amid war’s turmoil

Uganda has long stood as one of Africa’s most open and compassionate hosts for refugees, a distinction that has gained renewed significance amid the devastating war in Sudan. Currently, the East African nation shelters over two million refugees –...

Government criticism over Rironi-Mau Summit road project insincere

Vehicles at Mau Summit area on the Nakuru– Eldoret Highway. [File, Standard] Former President Mwai Kibaki often posed, with characteristic sarcasm, the question of why certain Kenyans had discovered newfound wisdom. He asked how “they had suddenly...

SPLM slams ‘shocking’ Nhial Deng Nhial defection, rejects corruption charges

SPLM Secretary for Political Affairs, Mobilization, and Organization, Bol Makueng, speaks during a press conference in Juba on Wednesday, October 22, 2025. [Photo by Sudans Post]JUBA – South Sudan’s ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement...

It’s time to relocate the UN headquarters

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the United Nations headquarters on September 23, 2025 in New York City. As the world shifts its attention to the ceasefire in Gaza, we should remember one of...

Security chiefs agree to remove roadblocks, patrol highways

Author: Wol Mapal | Published: 33 minutes ago SSPDF Spokesperson Major General Lul Ruai Koang in an interview with to Eye Radio in Bilpam. May 15, 2024. (Photo: Lou Nelson). The heads of key security institutions have agreed to work together to...

Archaeologists In Egypt's Sinai Desert Just Found A 3,500-Year-Old Military Fortress With Fossilized Dough That’s Redefining Ancient History

Egypt is known for its discoveries. Earlier this month, archaeologists uncovered clues to the origins of one of the world's largest religious complexes. Now, archaeologists are celebrating a discovery in the Sinai Desert that could change what...