EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG British photographer David Hamilton has died in Paris on Friday night at the age of 83 after committing suicide, according to police sources. Mr Hamilton,who had lived much of his life in France and whose works had appeared in high-end fashion magazines, was found unresponsive in his home by a neighbour who alerted emergency services, the sources ...

EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG Amaverick 72-year-old British pilot taking part in a vintage air rally turned up in South Sudan on Saturday after going missing for a second time when the event arrived in Kenya. Maurice Kirk is one of about a dozen pilots flying vintage biplanes across Africa, but has repeatedly fallen foul of organisers for failing to stick ...

EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG November 23, 2016 (JUBA) – South Sudan army (SPLA) chief of staff, Gen. Paul Malong said his troops are ready for any option to end war in the country. S Sudan’s President Salva Kiir is received by Chief of General Staff of the SPLA Paul Malong Awan at the airport in Juba. “As soldiers, we are ...

WRITTEN BY KALAHAN DENG November 24, 2016 (KHARTOUM) – More than eight thousands Sudanese have crossed the sea illegally into Europe during this year, said, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) IOM released on 18 November an infographic showing that the number of Sudanese who arrived by sea to Italy during January-August 2016 increased compared to the same ...

BY KALAHAN DENG Australia’s offshore detention policy for asylum seekers has been criticised by a top-ranking UN official. Australia sends asylum seekers who arrive by boat to centres in Nauru and Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island. Francois Crepeau, the UN special rapporteur on migrant human rights, has just finished an 18-day stint examining Australia’s immigration laws. He said in Canberra ...

Vladimir Putin has successfully test-launched a new supersonic missile that could breach NATO’s missile defense systems — and reach the United States in twelve minutes. The missile, known as the Object 4202 rocket, managed to fly from Yasny Launch Base to the peninsula of Kamchatka, a distance spanning thousands of miles. Because its speed reaches 4000 mph, it would be ...

Good morning. (Want to get California Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.) It’s no secret that Donald J. Trump lost badly in California on Election Day. But not everywhere. By territory alone, the state’s blue and red sides ended up fairly even, as voters delivered wins for Mr. Trump across the rural Central Valley and northern counties.On Tuesday, Mr. Trump ...

KALAHAN DENG President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines has a reputation for frank – and frankly offensive – speech-making that electrifies his constituents as often as it angers other countries. He has made the extrajudicial killing of drug dealers and users the cornerstone of his domestic policy. Behind the bluster, analysts are alarmed that Mr. Duterte’s comments mark a shift ...

EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG An airstrike in Somalia that the US said had targeted al-Shabab actually killed 10 members of an allied local militia, US media report, quoting an unpublished Pentagon investigation. The US says it carried out the September strike to protect Puntland forces who came under fire during an operation against al-Shabab militants. The strike sparked anti-American protests ...

EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG This is entirely strange to those who followed Mr. Trump’s campaign speeches about what is known as Obamacare in America. But Trump seemed to change his mind about the issue. US President-elect Donald Trump has said in an interview he is open to leaving intact key parts of President Barack Obama’s healthcare bill. Mr Trump, who ...