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Gabon’s constitutional court confirmed that Gen. Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, Gabon’s interim president who staged a 2023 coup, won the Central African nation’s April 12 presidential election. Oligui Nguema won the election with 58,074 votes, which accounts for 94.85 percent of votes cast...

OCHA reported that over 30 bulldozers and other heavy equipment vehicles, including some donated during the ceasefire, were bombed by the Israeli Forces in Gaza City, North Gaza and Khan Younis on 21 and 22 April. The affected equipment included machinery for search-and-rescue operations, waste...

The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have agreed to pause fighting as they work towards a broader peace deal, according to their joint statement. The truce, declared late on April 23 after a round of negotiations in Qatar’s capital Doha, has...

Pakistan threatened to suspend its participation in all bilateral agreements with India, including the 1972 Simla Agreement, in a retaliatory move after India said it would suspend its own participation in the Indus Water Treaty and close the land border the day before. The Simla Agreement was a...

“Our presence here is not innocent, and our history has been written... with deeply painful pages,” Macron said during a remembrance ceremony at the former royal palace in the capital Antananarivo. “Only you can make this journey of forgiveness,” he said after touring the palace with Princess...

Russia attacked Kyiv with an hours long barrage of missiles and drones, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 70 in its deadliest assault on the Ukrainian capital since last July and just as peace efforts are coming to a head. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said after the attack...

The Basic Court of Pristina said it had ordered 30 days of detention for three former prison guards suspected of war crimes during the Kosovo war of 1998-1999. The Special Prosecutor’s document, seen by BIRN, said that Boban Tonic, a 59-year-old Kosovo Serb from Lipjan/Lipljan, Mirsad Ibro, a 56...

Senior Palestinian officials loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas are meeting to vote on the creation of a vice presidency and could choose a possible successor to the unpopular 89-year-old. The two-day meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) Central Council, comes as Abbas seeks...

A Tunisian judge has ordered the detention of prominent lawyer Ahmed Souab, a fierce critic of President Kais Saied, lawyers said, two days after his arrest for comments about the judiciary. Souab’s arrest sparked widespread anger among political parties and civil society groups, which said the move...

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have launched a ballistic missile towards northern Israel, according to the Israeli military, which claimed to have shot down the projectile without causing any injuries. Shortly after 4 am local time (01:00 GMT) on April 23, the Israeli army said that the missile triggered air...