Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir (C) chairs the general assembly for the national dialogue on August 20, 2015 in the capital Khartoum. Bashir said he was ready for a two-month ceasefire with rebels in Sudan's border regions to allow national dialogue talks to take place to address the country's myriad problems, offering insurgents an amnesty. AFP PHOTO/ ASHRAF SHAZLY (Photo credit should read ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/Getty Images)
Nuria Gollo, the head of the Women Advocacy and Development Organization in Marsabit, poses for a portrait on her community's sacred land in northern Kenya. Research shows that over 90% of women in Marsabit county have suffered female genital mutiliation. Despite the practice being outlawed in 2008, it is still carried out in secret among many local communities.
A doctor examines Wek Wol Wek (3 years), who suffers acute malnutrition, at the clinic run by Doctors without Borders (MSF) in Aweil, Northern Bahr al Ghazal, South Sudan, on October 11, 2016.
Every week, the MSF clinic attends 60 new cases of malnourishment and it registered the highest activity in August 2016 with 90. Since March 2016, more than 70,000 people from Northen Bahr al Ghazal migrated to the neighbouring country Sudan due to the lack of food and the inflation in the market. According to the Food Security Outlook Update released by Famine Early Warning System Network (Fews Net) in September 2016, in Northern Bahr el Ghazal, some households are in Catastrophe phase level (IPC Phase 5), as they suffer from extreme lack of food, with households facing significant food consumption gaps, high levels of malnutrition and mortality. / AFP / ALBERT GONZALEZ FARRAN (Photo credit should read ALBERT GONZALEZ FARRAN/AFP/Getty Images)
In this photo taken on March 2, 2016, shows Davao City Mayor and Presidential Candidate Rodrigo Duterte raising a clenched fist during his campaign sortie in Lingayen, Pangasinan, north of Manila.
Rodrigo Duterte curses the pope's mother and jokes about his own infidelities, but many voters in the Philippines want to elect him president so he can begin an unprecedented war on crime. / AFP / NOEL CELIS / TO GO WITH AFP STORY: Philippines-vote-rights-crime-Duterte, FOCUS by Karl Malakunas (Photo credit should read NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images)
Pakistan has been plagued by economic crisis, political unrest, and now by catastrophic and deadly flooding.
At 34 years old, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is the country’s youngest foreign min...Show moreister and the leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party, the second-largest coalition party in the current government. Bhutto Zardari will join FP’s editor in chief, Ravi Agrawal, for a wide-ranging interview to discuss how his government is coping with the disaster and what its plans are to help mitigate the various crises facing the country. The two will discuss Bhutto Zardari’s new role, his plans to move the country forward, the future of his coalition government, and much more.
With Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order of a partial mobilization of reservists to bolster his forces in Ukraine, Russia’s invasion has potentially entered an even more destructive...Show more and dangerous new phase. Tune in as FP’s executive editor, Amelia Lester, and FP’s team of reporters who have been covering this story answer your questions about where the war is headed next: What will happen with referendums in Russian-occupied territories? How will dissent at home affect what Putin does next, and what do experts make of his nuclear saber-rattling? What is the mood on the ground in Ukraine, and how are its allies in the United States and Europe handling an energy crunch caused by Russia’s invasion? Don’t miss the chance to ask your questions to our in-house experts on this fast-moving story.
In just the past week, Ukraine’s military has liberated some 2,400 square miles of territory captured by Russian forces since the war began in February. These gains—the most tangible tur...Show morening point in the war so far—are in part due to prolific support from NATO, the military alliance between 28 European countries plus Canada and the United States. NATO’s support, however, raises several questions. How long can these 30 democracies—each with their own internal domestic concerns and economic pressures—continue to arm and assist Ukraine? How can NATO continue to repel Russian cyberattacks and other threats? And in the longer term, in light of the meeting this week between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, how does NATO prepare for a growing challenge from Beijing? Jens Stoltenberg, NATO’s secretary-general, joined FP’s Ravi Agrawal on FP Live to answer these questions along with many others.
