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Description: South Sudan’s President, Salva Kiir, in a televised address to the nation has issued a decree, dismissing one of the country’s five Vice – Presidents, Benjamin Bol Mel, who was suspected as the most likely successor of Salva Kiir. Bol Mel was also stripped from the rank of general, a promotion he was granted with in Sep by President Kiir. Bol Mel’s dismissal arrives on the back of a mounting political crisis in the country and during the trial of South Sudan’s first Vice – President Riek Machar on charges of treason. Armed confrontations between the nation’s military and the White Army militia loyal to Riek Machar have also been escalating in the past couple of
Description: France’s Parliament has predominantly voted in favor of adopting the pension reform which stipulated that people could retire at the age of 62. The pension reform was one of the concessions that incumbent Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu promised to the Socialist party in return for support in conceptualizing France’s mounting problems with the rising public deficit which has reached 5.8% of the country’s GDP in 2024 or 168.8 billion euros. Budget discussions have been also ongoing with the final shape of the 2026 budget with the incorporate cuts still remaining unclear. The country has been plunged into intensified political crisis with five prime ministers ch
Description: The Pakistani Taliban have claimed responsibility for the car bomb attack in Islamabad which left 12 people dead and 27 people injured. Pakistani Interior Minister, Mohsin Naqvi stated that the attack has been sponsored by India and also blamed the Afghan government for continuously supporting and harboring militant and terrorist groups operating out of their country. Pakistan’s Defense Minister, Khawaja Asif stated that Pakistan was in a state of war against the insurgent groups as the attack represented a wake-up call for the existential threat that terrorist groups pose to the country’s security and stability. The attacks arrive at a sensitive time for the pe
Description: Several people were reported to have been critically injured and eight people were reported dead after a car bomb detonated near the Red Fort imperial palace tourist site in New Delhi. The investigation by the Indian security forces so far has identified Dr. Umar un-Nabi Bhat as the principal perpetrator of the attack, as he was identified through analysis of the CCTV footage obtained from the surrounding buildings where the attack occurred. Indian investigators believed that Umar had close ties to Jaish e Mohammed (JeM), Pakistani separatist militant group which operated in the disputed Kashmir region. Umar was also tied to the Ansar Ghazwatul Hind, which is a
Description: Thailand’s government has stated that all provisions from the US – brokered ceasefire agreement with Cambodia were put on halt after four Thai soldiers were injured in a mine blast in Thailand’s Sisaket province. Thailand’s Prime Minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, has ordered the military to dispatch tanks across the border with Cambodia and stated that hostilities towards Thailand’s national security haven’t decreased under the terms of the ceasefire agreement. Cambodia’s foreign ministry replied that Thai soldiers continued patrolling the areas which had remnants of past conflicts and there were no intentional actions undertaken on the Cambodian side in regard to
Description: The imposed fuel blockades in Mali’s capital, Bamako, and across other larger cities in the country have put public services in a standstill. The Al Qaeda affiliated terrorist organization has substantially expanded its territorial foothold further extending the streams of revenue and fragmentizing the power and control that Mali’s military junta exercises in the country. The French, Italian, German and the US embassies have warned their residents in the country to immediately leave since the crisis is expected to expand and unrest at this point seems imminent. JNIM have successfully imposed a fuel blockade since Sep, and the group effectively controls larger pa
Description: The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have warned that Sudan’s relief operations in the North Darfur region were already collapsing since the fall of El Fasher in the hands of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Refugee crisis was instigated in the Darfur province prompting thousands of civilians to flee the RSF’s massacres and genocidal warfare campaigns, while refugee camps and relief stations across the province were either looted or emptied out due to the overwhelming numbers of civilians transiting or arriving at the camps. The peace initiative proposed by the US, Egypt, Saudi Ar
Description: After the deadly anti – government protests last week in Tanzania, which left more than 700 people dead and prompted the government to impose a media blackout, several opposition leaders were reported to have been released from prison. Four senior representatives of the oppositional Chadema party have been released from detention on bail, however, the leader of party, Tundu Lissu, who has been in prison since Apr, remained under detention. Protests erupted in Tanzania after suspected election fraud was conducted by the incumbent President, Samia Suluhu Hassan, who claimed to have won the election with overwhelming support. After the violent protests unfolded, th
Description: Ecuador’s National Service for Comprehensive Attention to Persons Deprived of Liberty (SNAI) has announced that more than 27 people were killed in a prison riot in the city of Machala, the capital of Ecuador’s El Oro province. In the issued statement, SNAI also claimed that the prisoners died from immediate suffixation due to hanging while elite special forces were deployed in the prison in Machala to restore order. The deadly riot follows a troubling pattern of gang violence in Ecuador, which is in a state of emergency since 2024, where 17 people were killed in the city of Esmeraldas and additional 14 people in the Machala prison th
Description: US President Donald Trump was royally welcomed by Japan’s Emperor, Naruhito, as he arrived in Japan for a three – day state visit where he is expected to discuss trade, defense and other venues of deepening strategic cooperation with Japan’s new Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi. US Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick met his Japanese counterpart, Ryosei Akazawa as they were aiming at solidifying the provisions of the trade agreement concluded under former Japanese Prime Minister, Shigeru Ishiba. Takaichi and Trump are expected to discuss the expansion of trade as per the previously concluded deal which stipulated Japan to invest approximately $550 billion in the US