International

From Tariffs to Prohibition: Canada's Counter-Measures Take Effect and Washington Answers by Banning Canadian Goods Outright

OTTAWA / WASHINGTON

At 12:01 a.m. Eastern on Tuesday, September 8, Canada began collecting tariffs of 15, 25 and 50 per cent on more than 700 categories of American goods worth roughly $20bn — steel and aluminium, household appliances, agricultural equipment, dairy, seafood, wood and paper products, electronics…

Congo's Orthodox Year: How the DRC Learned to Set Prices, Borrow Abroad and Still Not Move the Poverty Line

AGENCIES

There is a version of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's 2026 that reads as an unambiguous success. Inflation, which ran at 17.7 percent in 2024, had fallen to roughly 2.5 percent by the end of April 2026 and has held at or below that level since October 2025. The Congolese franc, historically one of…

A Hero's Burial in Belgrade: Mladic's Funeral Ruptures Serbia's Ties With Bosnia and Strains Its Path to Europe

World Politics  

Thousands of mourners filled the streets around the Church of St. Luke in Belgrade on 7 September to bury Ratko Mladic, the wartime commander of the Bosnian Serb army convicted of genocide at Srebrenica. Within hours, Bosnia and Herzegovina announced it was reducing diplomatic relations with…

Nigeria's Quiet Truce: Report of a Secret Boko Haram Ceasefire Lands in the Middle of an Election Campaign

Abuja / Maiduguri  

For three months, the Nigerian government has been observing a ceasefire with Boko Haram that it has never acknowledged and continues to deny in principle, according to an investigation published Monday by The New Humanitarian. The disclosure arrives at the worst…

Mozambique Prepares to Try Its Runner-Up: Mondlane Heads to the Supreme Court on Terrorism-Related Charges

Maputo 

Nearly two years after a disputed presidential election tipped Mozambique into the deadliest political unrest of its post-war era, the man who came second in that election is preparing to stand trial before the country's Supreme Court. Venâncio Mondlane was notified on Aug. 25, 2026, that he will…

Britain Draws a Line at the Green Line: Burnham's Government Bans Trade With Israeli West Bank Settlements

World Politics 

The British government confirmed on 8 September that it will ban the import of goods produced in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, the sharpest step London has taken against Israel in decades and the first substantive foreign-policy break of Prime Minister Andy Burnham's…