International

Tanzania's Ex-Vice President Goes Silent After Resignation and Expulsion, Deepening a Crisis of Confidence

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania

Tanzania's former Vice President Emmanuel Nchimbi has not been seen in public since Aug. 20, has not answered calls from friends, family or the country's own former prime minister since Aug. 26, and was conspicuously absent from the swearing-in of his own successor three days later. No…

Russia's Deadliest Strike of the Year Kills 38 Near Kyiv — and Exposes Ukraine's Own Munitions Failures

Background

Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine is now in its fifth year, and by the summer of 2026 the war had settled into a grinding pattern that has proven resistant to repeated rounds of diplomacy: intensifying missile-and-drone barrages on Ukrainian cities and infrastructure, matched by Ukrainian long-range drone…

U.S. Strikes Iran for the First Time in a Month, Reigniting the War Over the Strait of Hormuz

Background

The strike that broke a five-week lull in the U.S.-Iran war landed on Larak Island, a sparsely populated speck of Iranian territory near the eastern mouth of the Strait of Hormuz, late on Sunday, August 30, 2026. It was the first American attack on Iranian soil since July 29, when U.S. Central Command carried…

Hichilema Set to Begin Second Term as Zambia's Treason Case Against Opposition Widens to 18

LUSAKA, Zambia

President Hakainde Hichilema is scheduled to be sworn in Tuesday for a second five-year term, but the ceremony will take place under a cloud that has drawn condemnation from human rights groups worldwide. Zambia's entire judiciary shut its doors for a single day this month at the precise moment…

Guinea-Bissau Awaits Results of Junta-Backed Referendum That Opposition Calls a Coup by Ballot

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau 

Election officials in Guinea-Bissau are counting ballots from a Sunday referendum that would hand the country's next president sweeping new powers, a vote the ruling military government says is the final building block toward restoring…

Mass Abduction of Hundreds From a Niger State Mosque Deepens Nigeria's Security Crisis Ahead of 2027

Minna/Abuja, Nigeria 

More than a week after gunmen stormed a mosque during Friday prayers in Niger State and abducted what residents say were hundreds of worshippers, Nigerian security forces have yet to locate the captives or make contact with their abductors, turning what began as a…