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More than 17 million people across nine conflict-affected states in northern Nigeria are facing acute food insecurity, the UN World Food Programme said in early July 2026, describing the crisis as the region’s worst in nearly a decade. The figure, drawn from the latest Cadre Harmonisé food security analysis used across West and Central Africa, … Read more
The World Bank reclassified the Philippines as an upper-middle-income economy on July 1, 2026, ending a stay in the lower-middle bracket that had lasted since 1987. The upgrade followed a recorded gross national income per capita of $4,850 in 2025, above the $4,636 threshold. The Bank attributed the move to broad-based growth rather than a … Read more
The Rapid Support Forces have tightened their siege of El Obeid, the capital of Sudan’s North Kordofan state, massing troops around a city of roughly half a million people and hitting it with near-daily drone strikes. The UN’s human rights chief, Volker Türk, called the situation a red alert and warned of a possible repeat of the … Read more
Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso formally notified the United Nations of their withdrawal from the International Criminal Court between June 18 and 24, 2026, converting an intention the three military governments announced last September into a binding legal process. Under the Rome Statute, the withdrawal takes effect exactly one year after each notification, meaning the … Read more
China’s navy launched a submarine-fired ballistic missile carrying a dummy warhead into the Pacific Ocean on July 6, 2026, in what Beijing says was its first publicly acknowledged strategic launch of this kind into the region. The missile flew over the exclusive economic zones of several Pacific nations, including Micronesia, Nauru and Kiribati, before landing … Read more
Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies voted on July 8, 2026 to formally summon Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira to explain a written warning his ministry sent Congress days earlier: that Washington’s decision to designate two Brazilian criminal organizations as foreign terrorist groups could, in theory, open the door to US military action on Brazilian soil. Because the … Read more