War Graves role for a far travelled Lewis woman

​A Lewis woman whose career in operations and emergency response has taken her to the furthest corners of the globe is about to start an exciting new chapter… as Deputy Director for the Canada, Americas and Pacific region for the Commonwealth War...

U.S. extends visa privileges for Liberia following agreement to accept 'Maryland man' Kilmar Abrego

The United States has extended visa validity for Liberian citizens from 12 months to 36 months and reached a humanitarian agreement for Liberia to accept a high-profile migrant. These developments are expected to facilitate travel, trade, and...

IGAD adopts resolutions to tackle youth employment crisis

Author: Koang Pal Chang | Published: 12 hours ago Ministers of Labour, Employment, and Internal Security from IGAD Member States pose for a group photo at the $3^{\text{rd}}$ IGAD Ministerial Conference in Nairobi. The conference focused on...

Mobile court launched to decongest prisons in Jonglei

Authorities in South Sudan’s Jonglei state, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), launched a mobile court Monday aimed at clearing case backlogs, decongesting prisons and extending legal services to remote areas. The...

Atem rises from statelessness to use his tech vision to empower the youth

JOHN ATEM AGWER’s family fled conflict in South Sudan and settled in Uganda as refugees. John Atem AgwerHe would later be admitted to the elite Stanford University in the United States. While in the United States, he has set up a tech company that...

Torit mayor launches community-led road rehabilitation project

Author: Madrama James | Published: 11 hours ago Areal view of Torit town, Eastern Equatoria State. | Photo: Courtesy. The Mayor of Torit Municipal Council, Ohito Baptist, has launched a community-driven road rehabilitation project aimed at...

Nasir Commissioner: SPLA-IO detaining civilian boats, demanding $4,000 along Sobat River

Author: Elsheikh Chol Ajeing | Published: 5 hours ago A boat journeys along the White Nile, a vital artery of life and transport in South Sudan - courtesy of Austerio Alonso JUBA, South Sudan (Eye Radio) – Nasir County authorities in Upper Nile...

IGAD Labor Ministers gather in Nairobi; single visa initiative tops agenda for regional mobility

Author: Koang Pal Chang | Published: 2 hours ago South Sudan’s Deputy Minister of Interior, Gen. Mangar Buong, addresses the 3rd IGAD Ministerial Conference on Labour, Employment and Labour Migration in Nairobi, Kenya - October 20, 2025 NAIROBI,...

'A killing field': Hundreds murdered in hospital in horrific massacre

Warning: This story contains details and content that some readers may find distressing. Sudan's paramilitary forces have killed hundreds of people at a hospital, including patients, after they seized the provincial capital of North Darfur over...

China's poverty alleviation inspires visiting African officials

(Xinhua) 10:56, October 27, 2025 YINCHUAN, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- Despite the three flights over about 18 hours that it takes to reach Yinchuan, the capital of northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Ayak Awer Chan Liol from South Sudan said...

CES minister shuts down rock city, Khor Woliang slaughterhouses

Author: Michael Daniel | Published: 5 hours ago The surrounding of Khor Woliang slaughterhouse|Courtwsy Central Equatoria State Ministry of Animal Resources, Fisheries, and Tourism on Wednesday ordered the immediate closure of Rock City and Khor...

RACE FOR STATE HOUSE! In KOTIDO/MOROTO, M7 says peace has attracted investors to Karamoja

MOROTO/KOTIDO – President Yoweri Museveni has said that peace and stability brought by the National Resistance Movement (NRM) government have transformed Karamoja, attracting both local and foreign investors to the region. Speaking at a rally in...

7 things to do in NYC this weekend: Oct. 31 – Nov. 2

Highlights this weekend include “Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club” star Marisha Wallace at Café Carlyle and a spooky-themed double feature at AMC movie theaters. Also, free events include Green-Wood Cemetery’s “Day of the Dead” celebration, Brooklyn...

Jonglei launches mobile court to clear case backlogs, expand justice access

BOR – The Jonglei State government, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has launched a mobile court aimed at reducing long-standing case backlogs, decongesting prisons, and bringing justice services to remote...

Across China: China's poverty alleviation inspires visiting African officials

YINCHUAN, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- Despite the three flights over about 18 hours that it takes to reach Yinchuan, the capital of northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Ayak Awer Chan Liol from South Sudan said the journey was well worth it....

The 10 Best Horror Movies About Grief

I expect horror movies to make me scream with terror, but never sob with it! And yet, some horror movies manage to cause emotional trauma on top of psychological in a one-two-disturb-you punch! Grief is a horrible thing, perhaps the most difficult...

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...

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...

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...