Elections in India for members of the Lok Sabha began on April 19, 2024 and will continue through June 1, 2024. Polls indicate that the Bharatiya Janata Party is likely to win the most seats in the Lok Sabha, which would enable Prime Minister Narendra Modi to secure a third
The government of South Sudan and several rebel groups began peace talks in Kenya on May 9, 2024. These rebel groups did not sign the peace agreement in 2018, which ended the South Sudan civil war and established a transitional government. Since then, the government has tried to gain the
A coup occurred in Niger on July 26, 2023 when the military overthrew President Mohamad Bazoum. The military opposed President Bazoum’s government for not doing enough to prevent terrorist attacks, or increase economic growth in the country. In addition to Niger, coups occurred in Mali in 2020, and Burkina Faso
After no party won a majority of the 350 seats up for election in the Spanish Congress of Deputies in July, the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party made agreements with several smaller parties to pool their interests and form a coalition government. On November 9th, the Together for Catalonia and the
On August 10th, the United States and Iran made an agreement that will allow five Americans detained in Iran to be released in exchange for the release of an unknown number of Iranians imprisoned in the U.S. Three of the American prisoners were arrested for espionage charges, but it is
On September 14th, presidents of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan Sadyr Japarov and Emomali Rahmon met at the United Nations General Assembly to discuss ending the border dispute between the two countries. However, tensions increased after Kamchybek Tashiev, the head of the Kyrgyz National Security Committee, opposed the talks, asking Tajikistan to
Nikos Christodoulides, President of Cyprus, asked the European Parliament to appoint an envoy to help support negotiations to unify the island, European Interest reported on June 13th. Cyprus is currently divided between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. Turkish Cypriots live in Northern Cyprus, which declared independence in 1983, but only Turkey
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol in Seoul on May 7th. Kishia’s visit occurred after Yoon visited Tokyo in March 2023, and it is the first time the prime minister of Japan has visited South Korea in 12 years. Both leaders want to
Gulzar Imam, the leader and founder of the Baloch National Army (B.N.A.), was arrested by the Pakistani Army on April 7th. The B.N.A is a rebel group that has supported the independence of the Balochistan province and has planned a number of terrorist attacks. If more members of the B.N.A.
The Republika Srpska is one of two entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a large Serbian population. The other entity is the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (F.B.i.H.), whose population consists of Bosniaks and Croats. The creation of Srpska in 1992 started the four-year Bosnian War, which killed 100,000 people.
On December 22nd, the March 23 (M23) rebel group announced it would withdraw from Kibumba, a town in the North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (D.R.C.). The group is named after an agreement signed by the D.R.C. government on March 23th, 2009, which was supposed to
“The editing division is reviewing this article, and we kindly ask that it not be put back into pending review status until further notice.” A group of environmentalists from Azerbaijan blocked the Lachin Corridor on December 12th. The Corridor connects Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, a region of Azerbaijan with a large
Peace talks between the Colombian government and the country’s largest rebel group began in Venezuela last month after 60 years of conflict. The National Liberation Army (E.L.N.) is a Marxist group which supports land redistribution for farmers and which has planned a number of attacks in Colombia. On December 4th,
Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a message to North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, and said he wanted to work to create “peace, stability, development and prosperity in the region and the rest of the world,” the South China Morning Post reported on November 27th. President Xi sent the message after
Brazil, Indonesia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have the largest area of rainforests in the world. On November 14th, at the G20 summit in Bali, the three countries agreed to create the Rainforest Protection Pact, which will work to stop deforestation and regrow forests. The countries plan to
The 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP) began in Egypt on November 6th, and will end on November 18th, 2022. At the COP, Germany and Belgium pledged 170 million and 2.5 million Euros in aid for loss and damage caused by climate change. It is unknown
E.U. leaders met in Berlin on October 25th to discuss creating a financial coordination platform to rebuild Ukraine’s economy that has been damaged since the war with Russia began in February 2022. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz compared the rebuilding of Ukraine’s economy to the Marshall Plan where the U.S. gave
The United Nations supported the African Union’s call for a ceasefire in the Tigray War in Ethiopia on October 17th. In addition to a ceasefire, the A.U. also called for Eritrean forces to withdraw from Ethiopia as well as for peace talks between the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and the
E.U. leaders met at a summit in Prague on October 7th to discuss capping gas prices, which have increased since Russia invaded Ukraine, cutting supplies to the latter’s allies. Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, proposed a price cap which might create an upper and lower
