68 weeks. 476 days. Let’s bring Evan home. #IStandWithEvan #JournalismIsNotACrime

Rwanda's Paul Kagame after latest election landslide “Trust makes me confident that together there is no challenge we will not surmount,” wsj.com/world/africa/r… via The Wall Street Journal

Absolute horror. Evan was doing nothing but his job as a JOURNALIST. #IStandWithEvan #JournalismIsNotACrime

Today, Dow Jones CEO and Wall Street Journal Publisher Almar Latour and Wall Street Journal Editor in Chief Emma Tucker released the below statement on The Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. Statement here: bit.ly/46afpnY #IStandWithEvan

While Russia hasn’t indicated where Evan will be imprisoned, he will enter a penal system known for persistent human-rights abuses, dangerous working conditions and inadequate infrastructure. Echoes of the notorious Soviet-era gulag system still linger. wsj.com/world/russia/e…

Evan cannot be freed soon enough. #IStandWithEvan ⁦The Wall Street Journal⁩

Russian and Chinese bombers were intercepted off the coast of Alaska by U.S. and Canadian fighters on Wednesday wsj.com/world/u-s-inte… via The Wall Street Journal

Russia freed wrongly convicted WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich as part of the largest and most complex East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War wsj.com/world/russia/e… via The Wall Street Journal

At the center of the deal was Krasikov, a convicted murderer that Russian President Putin had been pushing to free since 2021. The former intelligence officer, a veteran of the Soviet-Afghan war, had shot and killed a rebel leader in a Berlin park, and was serving a life sentence

Our The Wall Street Journal colleague is free and we have three stories on the front. Doesn’t get much better in our game. I’m going on holiday now.

Young Africans, dissatisfied with the rising cost of living and bad governance, are driving a wave of protests that has now swept through at least three countries across the continent wsj.com/world/africa/a… via The Wall Street Journal

Emaciated children are dying from lack of food, clean water and medicine. Aid groups are rationing malnutrition treatments. Desperate mothers are feeding children with leaves in Sudan's Zamzam camp latest w Gabriele Steinhauser wsj.com/world/africa/e… via The Wall Street Journal

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WSJ's Gabriele Steinhauser and @nicholasbariyo have done stellar work this year documenting the insane tragedy in Sudan, where two rival generals are fighting for power and tearing apart Africa's third-biggest country. wsj.com/world/africa/s…

"This is not just another challenge; it's a crisis that demands our collective action," Jean Kaseya, head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention wsj.com/world/africa/m… via The Wall Street Journal

Children under 15 account for majority of the cases in the DRC “Children have more physical contact interactions through play, at school and as they are not able to recognize the early signs and symptoms and their significance,” Save the Children US wsj.com/world/africa/m… via The Wall Street Journal

One of Clark’s first tasks was to travel to Sudan to arrange gold exports from mines Srivastava claimed to own. Srivastava later scammed millions by posing as a CIA operative, then used donations to cozy up to powerful people in Washington. wsj.com/politics/natio… via The Wall Street Journal

The fake spy, the oil trader and the four-star general. Nicholas Bariyo, Costas Paris, Elisa Cho, Jim Oberman wsj.com/politics/natio…

Why do men eat so much meat? “Men associate meat with strength and power, particularly red meat,”wsj.com/health/wellnes… via The Wall Street Journal