Category: World
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Cameroonians are waiting to see who moves in a government reshuffle after President Paul Biya’s return. In a system built around one man since 1982, ministerial appointments are how political direction gets announced — and two conflicts sit underneath.
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Three men have been sentenced to 158 years each in Ensenada for the 2024 killings of two Australian brothers and an American surfer. The number is arithmetic rather than theatre — and the conviction rate for homicide in Mexico is the context around it.
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The IOM is asking for 19 million dollars as displacement in Lebanon surges again. Buried in the same reporting is a small figure about date bars handed out at Syrian crossings — and it says more about what agencies expect than the headline numbers do.
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Leaked internal messages reportedly say Meta restricted Lula’s accounts during Brazil’s election while recommending Bolsonaro’s profile. Restriction and recommendation are different kinds of claim, and only one of them can be audited from outside.
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Marco Rubio’s visit to Uzbekistan says less about a shift towards Washington than about why doubly landlocked states collect partners. Central Asia’s strategy is to avoid choosing — and a third big power improves the terms offered by the first two.
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Rome prosecutors have opened an investigation naming Israel Katz and twelve senior officials over the alleged mistreatment of flotilla detainees. What an investigation of this kind can and cannot reach — and why most never get to a courtroom.
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More than 415,000 people are displaced inside Mali, mostly women and children. Being displaced within your own country rather than across a border changes your legal status, your visibility and your chances — and almost nobody reports it.
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The Bundibugyo outbreak in DR Congo has passed 8,116 confirmed cases and 3,924 deaths, the largest of its kind ever recorded. Uganda’s outbreak was declared over in August. The reason this one has been so hard to stop comes down to which Ebola species it is.
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Filipino households are buying solar panels at scale to escape some of Asia’s highest electricity prices, pushed higher by the war involving Iran. The boom is real. So are the objections about farmland, grid readiness and where the panels come from.
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Yemen’s government says the Houthis fired two missiles at Aden airport with 151 passengers present, and claims advances in Marib. The precise passenger figure is doing deliberate work, and Marib is contested for reasons that long predate the regional war.