Charlie Shoemaker/Getty ImagesDisgraced Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius was granted parole on Friday and will be released from a South African prison on Jan. 5, five years before his murder sentence is set to end. In 2013, the double-amputee Paralympian shot and killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, through a locked bathroom door at his Pretoria home, resulting in a trial that captured international media attention. Following his release in early 2024, Pistorious will be under constant surveil
financially and diplomatically on the world stage. there needs to be direct language, public and privately, that that it is not a valid assumption, that they overturn the transition and the constitutional order and that cannot stand. we have seen these pictures of hundreds, thousands of people on the streets, especially in the capital khartoum. is there concern that this violence will spread? i think there is, personally. i think today was sort of behind the scenes, not reported on, was there were significant acts of violence against protesters, in areas far outside of khartoum. there was some pretty horrific video of protesters being dispersed with live fire in darfur. other protests were met with violence by the red sea. these places don t get a lot of international media attention. they sometimes get a lot of attention in sudan itself, so i think there is real danger that we will continue to see that outside of khartoum.
of support that the military has whether tacit or not support from the region, from egypt, from the uae, from the saudis and likely russia, that they will be supported financially and diplomatically on the world stage. there needs to be direct language, public and privately, that that it is not a valid assumption, that they overturn the transition and the constitutional order and that cannot stand. we have seen these pictures of hundreds, thousands of people on the streets, especially in the capital khartoum. is there concern that this violence will spread? i think there is, personally. i think today was sort of behind the scenes, not reported on, was there were significant acts of violence against protesters, in areas far outside of khartoum. there was some pretty horrific video of protesters being dispersed with live fire in darfur. other protests were met with violence by the red sea. these places don t get a lot of international media attention.
fire in some areas. either protests were met with violence by the red sea. these places don t get a lot of international media attention. they sometimes get a lot of attention in sudan itself, so i think there is real danger that we will continue to see that outside of khartoum. within khartoum, i think there are periods of calm, periods of not so calm, and periods where the military forces crackdown. we re worried about that, i think, as if in the coming days and weeks this drags on, there is really a need for more important and more precise looks at what that looks like on the ground in sudan. in haiti a coalition of gangs are holding fuel supplies hostage. the situation is threatening the fragile health system which was already under pressure from an unreliable electricity supply and rising malnutrition, after an earthquake in august. hospitals are virtually empty with most wards closed, and patients and staff unable to get there without transport. courtney bembridge
constitutional order and it cannot stand. we have seen images of hundreds of thousands of people on the streets, many in khartoum. is the concern that will spread? i think that is, personally. today was sort of behind the scenes, not reported on significant acts of violence against protesters, areas of fire outside of khartoum. there was a terrific video of protesters being dispersed with live fire in some areas. either protests were met with violence by the red sea. these places don t get a lot of international media attention. they sometimes look attention. they sometimes look at saddam itself, so i think there is real danger that we will continue to see that outside of khartoum. within khartoum, i think there are periods of calm, periods of not so calm, periods whether military forces crackdown. we re worried about that, i think, as if in the coming days and weeks this drags on, there