The former NBA star talks to Al Jazeera about building South Sudan’s basketball team and why sport can change lives.
Africa, which contributes just 4 percent of global CO2 emissions, will suffer the most from climate change.
South Sudan have made history by winning their first FIBA World Cup game and by qualifying for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Job Tawengwa has lived on the road for about 25 years in his job defusing unexploded ordnances.
Salva Kiir has led the North African country since it became independent from Sudan in 2011.
Some 60 percent of people fleeing to South Sudan pass through Renk, where rain and scarce resources make life tenuous.
South Sudan’s Upper Nile State has recently become an epicentre of violence mainly orchestrated by militias.
More than 5,000 South Sudanese have been killed or injured by land mines and unexploded ordnance since 2004.
Nearly a million displaced and more than 1,000 people killed as civilians bear the brunt of war that erupted last month.
Fighting between Sudan’s army and RSF could upend South Sudan’s shaky peace due to oil exports and demographic concerns.
More than 800,000 South Sudanese refugees lived in Sudan before fighting broke out there last month.
UN estimates 100,000 people will flee Sudan conflict to Chad, which already hosts more than half a million refugees.
Regional leaders and experts fear a civil war could lead to new crises in a region battered by conflict and drought.
New UN report says officials should face criminal investigation, prosecution for their part in abuses against civilians.
