Sumaya Sadurni, who has died aged 32 in a automotive crash in northwestern Uganda, was a proficient freelance photographer whose work was printed on the planet’s most famed publications, together with the Monetary Instances.
A Ugandan NGO employee, Thomas Mugisha, additionally died within the accident. Deeply emotional, dedicated to her tales, and intensely humorous, Sadurni was a drive of nature — the best companion for reporting round east Africa.
In August final yr, whereas she was on task with me for the FT in South Sudan, we have been threatened with arrest for no motive. In the long run, after getting an earful from Sadurni, the native head of nationwide safety determined to not put us in a cell however despatched us again to our lodgings. “Go, I heard sufficient,” he stated, slamming on his desk. “Me too,” she retorted, slamming the commander’s workplace door.
“I had a good time, qué risa!” or what amusing we had, she texted after parting methods and returning to Kampala, the place she lived.
The Ugandan capital proved difficult at occasions too. In 2020, whereas masking a tense and at occasions violent election marketing campaign, Sadurni was singled out as a foe, with out justification, by officers loyal to president Yoweri Museveni. But she continued working.
“She went by so a lot hassle to observe us and report the reality,” stated Ugandan opposition chief Robert Kyagulanyi, generally known as Bobi Wine, who stood in opposition to Museveni in final yr’s election. “She was a powerful journalist, all the time humorous, by no means fearing the highly effective.”
Of Mexican and Spanish descent, Sumaya Sadurni Carrasco was born in Santiago on the finish of the dictatorial reign of Augusto Pinochet. She spent most of her youth roving round Latin America earlier than settling in Switzerland for highschool. After graduating from the UK’s College of Westminster she went again to Chile to cowl the scholar protests within the early 2010s earlier than spending time within the UK photographing one in every of her passions, heavy steel gigs.
After a visit to Uganda in 2016 to see a childhood pal, she determined to base herself there and travelled typically across the continent the place she demonstrated her expertise as a photographer and attraction as a human being — dancing with South Sudanese rebels and South African thugs alike. Her photos offered a window on to a continent the place her buddies have been legion.
“She was an unbelievable younger girl, lively and love for Uganda,” stated David Pilling, the FT’s Africa editor. “She took dangers for us in South Sudan to assist carry one other story she cared deeply about to a wider viewers.”
Certainly, for Sumy, as she was recognized by everybody, every part went deep, particularly so when it got here to ladies who survived traumas — from warfare wounds to acid assaults. “Sumy was keen about everybody she photographed. She constructed belief, respect and love with each girl earlier than taking their {photograph},” stated Catherine Byaruhanga, an in depth pal of Sadurni who’s the BBC Information Africa correspondent. “‘I really like you’ have been three phrases Sumy by no means withheld. Her hugs have been deep and filled with emotion.” She is survived by her dad and mom and her brother Jorge.
Two bodies were discovered in the landing gear compartment of a JetBlue plane on Monday after a flight to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the airline said in a statement on Tuesday.
JetBlue Flight 1801 departed Kennedy Airport in New York at 7:49 p.m. Monday and landed at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport at 11:10 p.m., according to flight tracker data. The bodies were discovered during a routine post-flight maintenance assessment of the plane, the airline said.
Paramedics pronounced the two people dead at the scene, according to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office. It was unclear how long the people had been in the landing gear compartment.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which manages Kennedy Airport, did not immediately respond to a request for comment about how the individuals may have gained access to the aircraft.
Landing gear compartments, located under an aircraft’s wings and at the front of the plane, have long been used by people attempting to travel undetected on airplanes. The airline did not say whether the two people who were found dead on Monday were stowaways.
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Such attempts to hide in landing gear compartments have proven deadly in the past. The compartments open and close upon takeoff and landing to deploy and retract wheels and other landing components, and other stowaways have fallen to their deaths from the openings, sometimes landing in public spaces along flight paths.
Those who can stay within the compartment risk being crushed by landing gear when it is withdrawn back into the aircraft, along with other hazards, including severe temperatures, pressure changes and lack of oxygen. Many stowaways die of hypothermia.
As recently as Christmas Day, a body was discovered in a wheel well of a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Hawaii. In 2023, a man was found alive in a landing gear compartment after a commercial flight from Algeria to France, though he was suffering from severe hypothermia.
An investigation was underway on Tuesday to determine the identities of the two individuals discovered in Fort Lauderdale and how they might have accessed the aircraft before it departed from New York, JetBlue said.
“This is a heartbreaking situation, and we are committed to working closely with authorities to support their efforts to understand how this occurred,” the airline said.
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Facebook owner Meta is ending its third party fact-checking programme and will instead rely on its users to flag misinformation.
The social media platform on Tuesday said it would “allow more speech by lifting restrictions on some topics that are part of mainstream discourse and focusing our enforcement on illegal and high-severity violations” and “take a more personalised approach to political content”.
Starting in the US, Meta will move to a so-called “community notes” model, similar to the one employed by Elon Musk’s X, which allows users to add context to controversial or misleading posts. Meta itself will not write community notes.
Former President Jimmy Carter‘s casket is being transferred Tuesday to Washington, D.C., for the next phase of his state funeral.
Carter has been lying in repose in Atlanta, as part of six days of observances that began Saturday with a service at his boyhood home in Plains, Georgia.
“This is somebody from a small town in south Georgia who was a peanut farmer who ultimately became the president of the United States,” said Carter’s grandson, Jason Carter, at the Plains service on Saturday. “It’s a pretty remarkable American story.”
Carter, the 39th president, died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100 — living longer than any president in U.S. history. His beloved wife of 77 years, Rosalynn, died in November 2023.
On Tuesday, Carter’s body will be flown from Atlanta to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, where his casket will be transferred with ceremony to a hearse. From there, a motorcade will proceed to the U.S. Navy Memorial, where his casket will then be transferred from a hearse to a horse-drawn caisson with ceremony.
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Members of the joint services military honor guard conduct a changing of the guard near the casket of former President Jimmy Carter as he lies in repose at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta, on Jan. 6, 2025. Carter died Dec. 29 at the age of 100.
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The caisson will travel to the U.S. Capitol, where Carter’s casket will be carried up the stairs into the Rotunda by military body bearers. Members of Congress will be able to pay their respects during a service.
Beginning Tuesday afternoon, Carter will lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda until Thursday, when his funeral service will be held at the National Cathedral before his remains are flown back to Georgia. President Biden is will be delivering a eulogy at Thursday’s service, along with several others. President-elect Donald Trump said he will attend.
There will be a final private service in Plains, and Carter will be buried next to Rosalynn Carter at his family’s peanut farm.
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Full schedule of Tuesday’s events (all times Eastern):
9:30 a.m.: A departure ceremony from the Carter Presidential Center.
10 a.m.: The motorcade departs for Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Georgia.
10:40 a.m.: The late president and his family arrive at Dobbins Air Reserve Base and board Special Air Mission 39 after an arrival ceremony.
11:15 a.m.: Special Air Mission 39 departs for Washington.
12:45 p.m.: Special Air Mission 39 arrives at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, and Carter’s remains are transferred with ceremony to the hearse.
1:15 p.m.: The motorcade departs for the U.S. Navy Memorial.
2 p.m.: The motorcade arrives at the U.S. Navy Memorial and Carter’s remains are transferred from a hearse to a horse drawn caisson with ceremony.
2:15 p.m.: The funeral procession begins marching up to the U.S. Capitol via Pennsylvania Avenue, turning left onto Constitution Avenue.
2:40 p.m.: Upon arrival at the U.S. Capitol, the late president is carried up the stairs by military body bearers and into the Rotunda.
3 p.m.: Congress pays their respects during a service in the Rotunda.
3:45 p.m.: Carter begins lying in state while the military maintains a guard of honor.
7 p.m. to midnight: Lying in state opens to the public.
Caroline Linton
Caroline Linton is an associate managing editor on the political team for CBSNews.com. She has previously written for The Daily Beast, Newsweek and amNewYork.
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