Civil service numbers have grown significantly since the Covid pandemic (when an increase could be justified). Pay has risen, as promotions have been used to offset pay curbs, with civil servants ...

IT WILL TAKE some days for the full toll of the powerful earthquake that struck Myanmar on March 28th to become clear. The epicentre lay just outside Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city ...

The second Sudanese civil war from 1983 to 2005 killed an estimated two million people, with widespread documentation of famine and atrocities. In July 2011, Sudan’s southern territory seceded ...

In the last few days we’ve heard what sound like the opening salvos of a Democratic Party civil war. After losing two of the last three presidential elections to Donald Trump, self-reflection is ...

Civil servants will be allowed just two taxpayer-funded electronic devices under a new "gadget limit" enforced by the government after the number of iPads used by officials in a department doubled ...

Christopher Tounsel has previously received funding from the Council of American Overseas Research Centers. A series of advances by the Sudanese military has led some observers to posit that the ...

According to her, the civil service had grown massively during Covid and had not gone back to its pre-pandemic size. “We are, by the end of this Parliament, making a commitment that we will cut ...

There appears to be confusion at the top of government over proposed cuts to the civil service, as a minister has insisted there are no targets for redundancies – despite the chancellor saying ...

The National Civil Rights Museum wants to make sure the resources from one of its important funders don’t dry up. So, they’re turning to the public for help. A beacon of history, the National ...