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On January 20, a Belgian court held a closed-door hearing to determine whether to pursue a criminal case against the last living former Belgian official for his alleged involvement in the 1961 assassination of Patrice Émery Lumumba.

The United States played a leading role in establishing the UN. Now, US President Donald Trump is undermining and defunding large parts of it.

On January 6, Niger’s transport minister issued a decree punishing at least 34 fuel transport operators and long-haul truck drivers who refused to deliver fuel to neighboring Mali. Since September 2025, an Al Qaeda-linked armed group, known as Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM), has laid siege to Mali’s capital, Bamako, and cut off fuel supplies. Sanctions include revoking both the fuel transport rights of several operators as well as the drivers’ licenses. The minister cited “serious violation of legal and regulatory obligations” as reasons behind the decree.

"You don't have a house here anymore. You need to leave." An Israeli soldier spoke those words to Leila E., a 54-year-old Palestinian refugee, before forcing her to leave her home in the Jenin refugee camp of the occupied West Bank exactly one year ago. Leila described the fear and panic she felt as Israeli soldiers stormed her family's home wearing masks and carrying machine guns.

US President Donald Trump on January 20, 2026, attacked an agreement that he had previously approved under which the United Kingdom would restore sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group’s sudden withdrawal from the city of Uvira in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on January 17, 2026, has put civilians at grave risk from abusive Wazalendo militias.

On January 19, a court in Makhachkala, the capital city of Russia’s Dagestan region, sentenced women’s rights defender and journalist Svetlana Anokhina to five years in prison for allegedly spreading “fake news” about the Russian armed forces.

From the day it took office, January 20, 2025, the second Trump administration has spawned new immigration policies at a dizzying pace.

Uganda’s electoral commission has declared President Yoweri Museveni as the winner of the January 15 elections, securing his seventh term in office with 71 percent of the vote.