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Niger Accuses Chad of Deadly Drone Strike, Taking a Sahel Feud to the UN as Its Junta Reels From a Failed Mutiny

NIAMEY 

Niger's military government has accused neighboring Chad of carrying out a drone strike in the remote north that killed two civilians, calling it an "act of aggression," summoning Chad's ambassador and announcing it will take the case to the United Nations Security Council and the African Union. Chad…

A Letter to Tehran, Mines in the Strait and a Midterm Deadline: Washington Sends Mixed Signals on Iran

Reports that Vice President JD Vance reached out to a senior Iranian security official have collided with warnings of renewed US strikes after the November 3 elections, as Iran presses a seven-day plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

World Politics 

Overview

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Egyptian Court Fines Mada Masr Editor, Orders Closure of Independent News Site in Single Hearing

CAIRO 

An Egyptian misdemeanor court on Tuesday fined Lina Attalah, editor-in-chief of the independent news outlet Mada Masr, 3 million Egyptian pounds and ordered the website closed. Attalah was taken into custody after the ruling. The verdict came just six days after prosecutors referred…

South Africa Heads Into Municipal Elections With the ANC Facing Possible Loss of Every Major City

World News

A vote with national consequences

South Africans will go to the polls on November 4 in municipal elections that pollsters and analysts increasingly describe as a referendum on the African National Congress's ability to govern the country's cities. With six days to go, the…

A Year After Tanzania's Disputed Election, Mourning Is Policed and the Opposition Leader Awaits a Treason Verdict

An anniversary the state would rather not mark

One year after an election that returned President Samia Suluhu Hassan to office with 98 percent of the vote, Tanzania is a country in which grief has become a political act. The opposition party Chadema has declared seven days of mourning, running from Thursday through…

Ahead but Short of 61: Israel's Vote Count Leaves Netanyahu's Bloc in Front, Eisenkot Claiming Victory, and No Clear Path to a Government

As ballots are tallied after a record-turnout election, the exit-poll picture of an opposition edge has given way to a narrow lead for the incumbent camp, with the decisive soldiers' and absentee ballots still to come.

World Politics 

Introduction

A day after…