Ousted Bangladesh PM Hasina Vows to Return Home this Year
By Reuters June 28, 2026 Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina attends the EU Global Gateway Forum 2023, in Brussels, Belgium October 25, 2023. Credit: Reuters/Johanna Geron DHAKA, June 29 (Reuters) - Ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has vowed to return to Bangladesh this year, brushing aside a death sentence handed down in absentia and denouncing the ruling as “illegal, unconstitutional and politically motivated.” Hasina, 78, who fled to India after a student
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Power Cuts Lead Millions of Yemenis to Suffer Extreme Heat
By Saeed Al Batati June 8, 2026 Millions of Yemenis grapple with a heatwave as power cuts add to the suffering of people in the war-torn nation. Salah Mohammed holds his shirt open and fans himself with a piece of cardboard during prolonged power cuts in Yemen's port city of Mukalla, where he and his wife often struggle to sleep amid scorching heat and high humidity. Credit: Al Jazeera Mukalla, Yemen – Yemen is sweltering under a heatwave as temperatures soar above a blisteri
Al Jazeera
Jun 24
US reconsiders role in Bosnia and Herzegovina
US embassy in Sarajevo made threat after European states refused to back its preferred High Representative candidate The outgoing High Representative, Christian Schmidt, left, at a meeting of the Peace Implementation Council in Sarajevo this week. Photograph: Elvis Barukčić/AFP/Getty Images A deepening US-European rift over the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina has broken open with a dispute over a top administrative post, leading to a US threat to “reconsider” its role in int
Fighting in Somalia’s capital as anger over election delay erupts
A truck carrying Somali security forces drives in Mogadishu before planned antigovernment protest. [Feisal Omar / Reuters] Residents flee from their homes due to fighting between two warring political factions. Violence has erupted in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, as government forces and opposition-allied militias have exchanged fire before an antigovernment protest, damaging buildings and forcing residents to flee. Fighting began on Wednesday and continued into Thursday bef
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Catastrophe Is Emerging in the World’s Most Vulnerable Places
Peter Goodman traveled to Somalia, visiting camps for displaced people, schools, health centers and a hospital for the treatment of malnourished children. Photographs by Finbarr O’Reilly.
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May 18
Ethiopia's constitutional reformers can learn from USA
Source: Ethiopia News Agency. American Federal Model Can Inspire Ethiopian Reforms Ethiopia Insight 15 April, 2026 By Nagessa Dube Ethiopia’s federal system is constitutionally established but structurally incomplete. For most of its modern history, the country operated under centralized rule, first as a unitary monarchy until the 1974 revolution, then as a Marxist-Leninist state under the Derg from 1974 to 1991. Federalism was formally introduced only with the 1995 Cons
Genocide Watch
May 13
Somalia's drought impact worsened by aid cuts
Drought Fallout Worsened by Aid Cuts and Ongoing Conflict In the largely arid Puntland region in north-eastern Somalia, where the past three rainy seasons have failed, there is nothing to see but dry water ponds, destroyed crops, and animal carcasses. As the drought intensifies, and the malnutrition rate soars, the race is on to stop another hunger catastrophe. But several international organisations have had to stop operations in the Kismayo camp and elsewhere, in large part
The Iranian Economic and Political Protests of 2017-2018
By Alžběta Frommerova Genocide Watch People take part in pro-government rallies in Iran on Jan. 3 2018 Handout from Tasnim News Agency via Reuters As Iran navigates the pressures of the current global war, which has left many Iranians concerned that the conflict may end without meaningful regime change, despite a century-long struggle against tyranny and for democracy, patterns of protests continue to evolve under pressure. Notably, although perceptions of the United States a
Genocide Watch
May 5
Somali Army Takes Over Baidoa, Southwest Somalia
Civilians walk along a deserted street following clashes between Somalia's federal army and forces loyal to the Southwest state, home to international peacekeepers and humanitarian agencies, in an area affected by drought, conflict and displacement, in Baidoa, Somalia, March 30, 2026 [Reuters] By Al Jazeera Staff , Anadolu and Reuters Somalia’s national army has taken control of the biggest city in Southwest state, prompting the regional leader to resign two weeks after his
Al Jazeera
Mar 31
Christians, Druze, Alawites attacked in Al-Sharaa's Syria
Syria: Christians, Other Minorities Under Genocidal Attack During Leadership of Ahmed Al-Sharaa The Gatestone Institute March 31, 2026 by Uzay Bulut Christians in Syria are once again under attack by Islamic groups affiliated with the country's jihadist regime, headed by President Ahmed al-Sharaa, a former al-Qaeda leader also known as Abu Mohammad al-Julani. Following al-Sharaa's December 2024 seizure of power in Syria, persecution of religious minorities, including Christia
Burundi Country Report: November 2025
By Larisa Chikanya Photographer: Tchandrou Nitanga/AFP/Getty Images Following June 2025 parliamentary elections, Burundi remains under the consolidated rule of President Évariste Ndayishimiye and the National Council for the Defence of Democracy–Forces for the Defence of Democracy(CNDD–FDD) party. In those elections, the ruling party secured nearly all parliamentary seats, effectively eliminating meaningful political opposition . This political dominance has intensified the s
Genocide Watch
Mar 27
Architectonics of Trust: Somalia’s Unilateral Constitutional Amendments, Risk of Fragmentation
On 4 March 2026, Somalia’s bicameral parliament approved amendments to over forty provisions of the Provisional Constitution adopted in 2012. (Photo: Social Media) Addis Abeba — In 2012, Somalia adopted its Provisional Constitution during a National Constituent Assembly in Mogadishu, marking the country’s transition from a transitional government to a federal system. Intended as a temporary framework until a permanent constitution could be approved by referendum, the documen
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