Media Coverage

The UN Human Rights Council released a report on March 15 on the human rights situation in Belarus during and after the country’s presidential election in 2020. It concludes that the crime against humanity of persecution may have been committed in Belarus. The report, which is the advance unedited...

Top military leaders in Brazil have alleged that former President Jair Bolsonaro presented them with a plan to reverse the results of the 2022 presidential election, according to court documents. The filings, released on March 15, offer some of the first evidence that Bolsonaro was directly involved...

A senior U.S. official on March 13 urged Kosovo and Serbia to make tough decisions to restart talks and “move forward” on normalizing ties. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Gabriel Escobar met with officials in Kosovo in the latest American effort to restart the talks between the two countries...

A vote by the PSUV party concluded that Maduro would be its presidential candidate, said Diosdado Cabello, considered the number two in the ruling movement which was founded by the late Hugo Chavez and has been in power for 25 years. Maduro, 61, has not made any announcement himself, but has been...

Nigerian soldiers were on March 11 hunting for armed kidnappers who seized nearly 300 school pupils in Kaduna state last week, a security source said, as distraught parents sought answers on when they would be reunited with their children. The mass kidnapping last March 7, the first since July 2021...

The European Union’s executive arm will recommend that member countries open membership negotiations with Bosnia-Herzegovina, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on March 12, despite lingering ethnic divisions in the Western Balkan country. Bosnia-Herzegovina is among six nations...

Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry has tendered his resignation and appealed for calm as the country descends into chaos. The 74-year-old announced he would step aside late on March 11 following an emergency meeting of regional nations. Haiti has been plagued by spiraling violence in recent weeks as...

Palestinians began fasting for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on March 11 with cease-fire talks at a standstill, hunger worsening across the Gaza Strip and no end in sight to the five-month-old war between Israel and Hamas. The United States, Qatar, and Egypt had hoped to broker a cease-fire ahead...

The Indian government has announced rules to implement the Citizenship Amendment Act, weeks before Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks a rare third term for his Hindu nationalist government. The controversial law passed in 2019 by Modi’s government allowed Indian citizenship for non-Muslim refugees...

President Macky Sall plunged Senegal into crisis with a last-minute postponement of the presidential poll, originally scheduled for February 25. After a month of uncertainty which sparked outcry at home and abroad, the country’s top constitutional body on March 7 agreed with the presidency for the...