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Each morning in Lviv’s historic Lychakiv Cemetery, the newest section fills with quiet footsteps. Among the mourners is Olga Smolynets, who arrives daily to visit the grave of her son, Ostap. The site has become a ledger of the war’s cost, a place where Ukraine’s recent history is etched into wood for now, and soon into stone. More than 1,000 Ukrainian servicemen and servicewomen killed since Russia’s full-scale invasion are buried here, their resting places forming a stark geography of loss at one of Eastern Europe’s most…

Every morning, Olga Smolynets walks past rows of fresh graves in Lviv’s historic Lychakiv Cemetery and stops at her son’s resting place. She comes every day, she says, to sit with his memory. For Smolynets—and for thousands of families across Ukraine—the cemetery has become a map of grief etched into the landscape of a war with no clear end. More than 1,000 Ukrainian servicemen and servicewomen who have been killed since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion are buried at Lychakiv. Last December, the current military…

NAIROBI, Kenya — Prosecutors on Wednesday told the High Court that a Nairobi man already linked to three killings in October 2024 murdered his girlfriend a week later, mutilated and boiled parts of her body, and tried to dump the remains at Lang’ata Cemetery. Appearing before Lady Justice Margaret Muigai on Dec. 3, 2025, Senior Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions Gikui Gichui said Hashim Dagane Muhumed — also known as Hashim Mohamed Khalif — killed Deka Abdi Noor Gorane on the night of Oct. 29–30, 2024, inside Valley…

Chilling Case in Nairobi: Man Kills Girlfriend, Boils Her Body and Dumps Remains at Cemetery NAIROBI, Kenya — A Nairobi court on Wednesday heard graphic testimony as prosecutors alleged that a man killed his girlfriend, mutilated and boiled her body and disposed of the remains at a city cemetery in an effort to conceal a series of earlier murders. Prosecutors said Hashim Dagane Muhumed, also known as Hashim Mohamed Khalif, killed his girlfriend, identified as Deka Abdi Noor Gorane, on the night of Oct. 29–30, 2024, at Valley…

Graves in the Path of Progress: A Tale of Loss and Resilience in Mogadishu On the outskirts of Mogadishu, the bulldozers of development are closing in on the past. This relentless push for progress has driven a Somali family to make a heart-wrenching decision—to exhume the remains of their parents from Moalim Nur cemetery and transport them to the distant soil of Guriel in the Galgaduud region. The memory of last year's destruction of the Policia (Bulusia) cemetery looms large, casting a shadow of anxiety over burial…

In their pursuit to establish a Muslim burial ground in the region, organizers navigated an array of obstacles, ranging from a hesitant local government to acts of vandalism. A fresh chapter began for Al Maghfirah Cemetery, nestled in Castle Rock Township just south of Farmington, as community members marked the commencement of its construction on October 8, 2024. Credit: Dymanh Chhoun | Sahan JournalThe name “Al Maghfirah” shines with significance, embodying the spirit of forgiveness in Arabic. On Tuesday, a hopeful spirit…

In Zambia, the Supreme Court rejects the appeal lodged by one of Kenneth Kaunda's sons in his waiver to the government over the location of the funeral of the father of independence. The judge decided to authorize the funeral of Kenneth Kaunda on Wednesday, July 7, in the cemetery of the former heads of state, in Embassy Park, opposite the government seat. The day before, family members had requested…

Eleven years after his death, the remains of the former president of Guinea-Bissau and the hero of the war of independence against Portugal, Joao Bernardo Vieira, known as Nino Vieira, murdered in 2009, were transferred to the cemetery of martyrs, the Bissau-Guinean pantheon. Former President Joao Bernardo Vieira should have been buried in the Square of the Heroes of Independence, in Damura Fortress. President Umaro Sissoco Embalo has decided to rectify this injustice by transferring his remains to the Pantheon of…