4 airports to begin enhanced Ebola screenings
The State Department announced four airports will begin enhanced Ebola screenings for U.S. passengers who visited Congo, South Sudan or Uganda in the last 21 days. Mark Strassmann reports.
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The State Department announced four airports will begin enhanced Ebola screenings for U.S. passengers who visited Congo, South Sudan or Uganda in the last 21 days. Mark Strassmann reports.
Dr. Peter Stafford was working with the missionary group Serge in Congo when he was infected with Ebola.
The State Department on Tuesday strongly urged Americans to avoid travel to Congo, Uganda and South Sudan because of the Ebola outbreak there. More than 130 people have already died. Mark Strassmann has more.
Women and children were among the dead, in addition to dozens of combatants, officials said.
UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell said what is happening in Sudan is currently the "largest humanitarian crisis" the organization is seeing. "The challenges are absolutely staggering," she added.
President Trump on Friday said he is ending deportation protections for Somali immigrants in Minnesota.
The termination marks a significant shift in U.S. policy toward South Sudan, a country that U.N. experts warn could be sliding "back toward another deadly war."
CBS News exclusively learned that the Department of Homeland Security is planning to end Temporary Protected Status for South Sudanese nationals. The move would end more than a decade of protection that allowed thousands of displaced South Sudanese nationals to live and work in the U.S. CBS News homeland security correspondent Nicole Sganga reports.
At least 14 soldiers were killed in South Sudan after a suspected "love triangle" dispute led to a shootout, the army said.
The man, a Mexican identified as Jesus Munoz-Gutierrez, was among a group of eight who had been in South Sudan government custody since their deportation.
Assistant Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the deportation flight carrying the deportees landed in South Sudan just before midnight EST on Friday.
A judge ordered the Trump administration to maintain custody of the migrants, whose lawyers say they were on a flight bound for violence-plagued South Sudan.
A federal judge said the Trump administration violated a court order when it deported eight convicted criminals to South Sudan. CBS News immigration and politics reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez has the details.
A federal judge is weighing in after the U.S. apparently prepared to send a group of migrants to South Sudan. It is not clear where the plane is or where the migrants are. CBS News' Nicole Sganga reports.
The aerial bombing on Saturday in South Sudan killed at least seven and caused significant damage to the hospital's pharmacy, destroying all medical supplies.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. decided to revoke all visas for South Sudanese citizens because the country's government failed to accept the return of its citizens being removed from the U.S. in a "timely matter."
It was the first such measure singling out all passport holders from a particular country since President Trump returned to the White House.
The travel advisory level for South Sudan remains at Level 4, which means Americans should not travel to the African country.
The world's youngest country, South Sudan, has faced wars, a hunger crisis, kidnappings, rapes and unprecedented flooding. As CBS News' Leah Mishkin reports, the country's basketball team hopes to give their nation "a beacon of hope" as they make their Olympic debut in Paris.
Craig Austin Lang faces a maximum penalty of life in prison after an "international crime spree."
39 civilians, including all members of 5 families and most of some others, were killed in just one day, a human rights activist from the area told CBS News.
Neighboring South Sudan says the two sides have accepted a plan to enter peace talks that includes a week-long ceasefire.
What was supposed to be a 24-hour ceasefire Tuesday in Sudan lasted just minutes before residents say they heard gunfire and explosions. Fighting between the country's army and a paramilitary group has killed more than 180 civilians and injured nearly 2,000 more since Saturday. CBS News international correspondent Debora Patta has more.
Pope Francis arrived in South Sudan on Friday after his visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo. South Sudan has faced a decade of civil war and years of poverty. CBS News foreign correspondent Chris Livesay reports from Juba, South Sudan, with the latest on the pope's mission.
Several African countries are on the brink of famine as millions face starvation. CBS News foreign correspondent Debora Patta recently traveled to South Sudan to get a closer look at the situation there and to investigate what's causing these catastrophic conditions.