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The Paris Games' grandiose opening ceremony is being squeezed by security and transport issues
PARIS (AP) — The talk before the opening ceremony of the Paris Games ideally should be about its grandiose backdrop: a summer sun setting on the Seine River as athletes drift by in boats and wave to cheering crowds. But behind the romantic veneer that Paris has long curated,...
South Sudan's president warns against clinging to power after call to postpone elections
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan 's President Salva Kiir on Wednesday warned lawmakers “not to cling to power” just weeks after his former rival turned deputy proposed a postponement of elections expected to be held in December. Kiir said an extension of the period of...
Schools to reopen in South Sudan after two weeks of extreme heat
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan's government on Tuesday said schools will reopen next week following a two-week closure due to extreme heat across the country. The health and education ministries said temperatures were expected to steadily drop with the rainy season set to...
US announces over $47 million in humanitarian aid for war-torn Sudan
CAIRO (AP) — The U.S. announced more than $47 million in humanitarian aid for war-torn Sudan and two neighboring countries, to where at least a million people have fled in the nearly 1-year-old conflict. The aid package is expected to help alleviate the suffering of nearly 25...
Olympic refugee team runner Dominic Lokolong Atiol tests positive for doping ahead of Paris Games
MONACO (AP) — A second runner on the Olympic refugee team has been implicated in doping while preparing for the Paris Games. Dominic Lokolong Atiol has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for trimetazidine, track and field’s Athletics Integrity Unit said...
UN reports a 35% increase in people affected by violence in South Sudan
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The number of people affected by violence in South Sudan surged by 35% in the last three months of 2023, the United Nations reported. The U.N. Mission in South Sudan, or UNMISS, documented 233 incidents of violence affecting 862 people. Of that, 406 were...
South Sudan shutters all schools as it prepares for an extreme heat wave
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan is closing all schools starting Monday in preparation for an extreme heat wave expected to last two weeks. The health and education ministries advised parents to keep all children indoors as temperatures are expected to soar to 45 degrees...
A South Sudan activist in the US is charged with trying to illegally export arms for coup back home
PHOENIX (AP) — A leading South Sudanese academic and activist living in exile in the United States has been charged in Arizona along with a Utah man born in the African nation on charges of conspiring to buy and illegally export millions of dollars’ worth of weapons to overthrow the government...
Violence and rights abuses threaten South Sudan's stability, a UN report warns
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Mass violence and gross human rights violations in South Sudan continue unabated ahead of landmark elections due to take place in December, a report by the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan has warned. Patterns of violence, violations and...
South Sudan blames fighting in neighboring Sudan and attacks in the Red Sea for its crisis
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan's government on Tuesday blamed the country's economic crisis in part on the fighting in neighboring Sudan and the instability in the Red Sea, where Yemen’s Houthi rebels have been attacking international shipping. With most government workers...
