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Stunt performers Elliot Joseph and Igho Diegbe on the set of Hotel Hotel Hotel Hotel.

How a Daniel Kaluuya movie spawned a new wave of Aussie stuntmen

The script called for multiple “versions” of the Oscar-winning actor. The challenge: finding them.

  • Karl Quinn

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The South Sudanese community in Australia is forging its own identity in a new land.

‘We don’t allow people like you in here’: The traumatised community working to rebuild their lives

Australia’s South Sudanese have been demonised and misunderstood – but strong family ties and successful public figures are helping to change the story.

  • Melissa Cunningham
UN peacekeepers patrol the street in Juba, South Sudan, in February.

Trump’s aid cuts claim early victims after three-hour walk in 40-degree heat

The deaths of eight people, including five children, are among the first to be directly attributed to the cuts imposed by the US president.

  • Aaron Ross
Children in a refugee camp in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) 1994, at the time of the Rwandan genocide.

Suffer the little children. It is ever the way, from Rwanda to Gaza

They are the innocents, and it is never their fight. But it is the children of conflict who always suffer the most.

  • Tony Wright
Ali Elliin and his wife Sohila at their home in Sydney.

‘Worse than Trump’: Multicultural leaders shocked by immigration proposals

Diaspora communities say they were blindsided by proposed laws that could ban foreigners from countries such as Iran and South Sudan from entering Australia.

  • Matthew Knott and Angus Thompson
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Palestinians line up for free food distribution during the ongoing Israeli air and ground offensive in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, last month.

Experts say Gaza is close to famine. What does that mean?

As Palestinians struggle to find food, humanitarians and UN officials are warning that famine is imminent in the enclave. What is it exactly?

  • Gaya Gupta
Maruja Inquilla walks on a dried out portion of Lake Titicaca in Coata, Peru, due to falling water levels amid a winter heat wave.
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South Sudan centre Deng Acuoth scores against Angola at the FIBA World Cup and celebrates his country’s progression to the Olympics.

‘We are one’: How five Aussies helped South Sudan go from concrete courts to the Olympics

South Sudan has only been a country for 12 years, but its basketball team - with five Australians on the roster - has just qualified for next year’s Olympics in Paris.

  • Roy Ward
Officials have dismissed questions about the health of South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir in recent months.

Journalists detained over footage appearing to show president wet himself

Government officials have repeatedly denied rumours on social media that South Sudan President Salva Kiir is unwell.

  • Ayenat Mersie