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Bolivia has carried out drug hunts for drug suspects recently. According to multiple sources including the BBC, a number of operations against drug trafficking have been carried out for several years leading to the arrest of many drug traffickers, along with seizing several thousand tons of substances in Bolivia, one of Latin America’s most impoverished nations. In the last month, Bolivia — the world’s third largest producer of coca after Colombia and Peru — made a drive to hunt an alleged international drug trafficker, Sebastián Marset, in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz. Though drug trafficking has not yet come…

Human rights conditions have notably deteriorated in Afghanistan. The Afghan government has restricted several rights including the freedom of speech, the rights of women and girls and the rights of vulnerable communities one after another since its coming to power in 2021. The latest decision of it restricts the running of Saloons by women. To improve human rights conditions, the United States held talks with the Taliban leaders. According to multiple sources including the BBC, talks were held between the representative of the United States and Afghanistan in Doha — the capital city of Qatar — last week. Though the…

The military coup has led to the ouster of the President of Niger, leading to political uncertainty and condemnation. According to multiple sources including the BBC, the military of Niger has ousted and detained its President Mohamed Bazoum and suspended the national constitution and the head of the presidential guard, Gen Abdourahmane Tchiani, has declared himself as the head of the transitional government called the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland this week. The military has also suspended National institutions and closed Niger’s land borders. The European Union, the United States and the African Union have condemned the…

The Ethiopian Nile dam, or the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, has created disputes among Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan. The upcoming dam talks — though the date is not fixed — may help address the concerns of all the parties and find acceptable solutions to disputes. According to multiple sources including the BBC, the dam talks are going to be held between Egypt and Ethiopia soon as Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi agreed in Cairo on the margins of the Egypt-hosted summit on the civil war in Sudan to negotiations over the filling of the…

Russia has canceled the Grain Deal this week, leading to concern. According to multiple sources including the BBC, Russia canceled the deal — which allowed the export of grains through the Black Sea from Ukraine — citing the blackmail of it by the West and Ukraine, along with several other causes. By this time, Russia has also carried out air attacks on grain storage in Ukraine and warned that it would treat ships heading for Ukrainian ports as potential military targets, though its return to the grain agreement is not canceled altogether. Russia’s strikes on storage had destroyed 60,000 tonnes…

Refugees resulting from forced displacement, driven by international wars and civil wars, are often expelled from host countries, leading to concern. According to multiple sources including the BBC, around one hundred refugees fleeing from Burkina Faso to Ghana have been expelled recently. But this is not the only event of refugee expulsion from host countries. Many other host countries expelled forcefully displaced refugees in the past. Syrian refugees —who left Syria because of the devastating civil war—were expelled from Lebanon and several other countries. But the expulsion of forced refugees from host countries that highlights the challenges faced by refugees…

Anti-gang operation in Harrogate, a town in North Yorkshire of Northern England, has recently been carried out amidst the rising gang-related crimes leading to the arrest of several gang criminals and the seizure of drugs. According to multiple sources including the BBC, police in North Yorkshire have recently launched an operation to dismantle a drug gang believed to be behind a new county lines operation to traffic drugs from West Yorkshire. This is a good step against the recent surge in gang crimes — which have prompted authorities to take measures and collaborate with community organizations — and may help…

Atrocities against civilians are rampant in Cameroon. According to multiple sources including the BBC, Amnesty International reports that government forces, separatists and ethnic militia are committing rampant atrocities in Cameroon. Several sorts of atrocities including executions, torture and rape have been committed in the North-West region since 2020. Definitely, the ongoing conflict between government forces and separatist armed groups — familiar as the Anglophone crisis which erupted in 2016 and deepened the divide between the English-speaking regions of Cameroon and the French-speaking majority—has resulted in widespread conflicts and human rights abuses, along with the significant loss of civilian lives and…

The burning of a religious book in Sweden has led to widespread protests and criticisms. According to multiple sources including the BBC, a copy of the Quran — the holy book of Islam — was burned by Salwan Momika, an Iraqi living in Sweden, outside Stockholm’s central mosque on Wednesday. It is definitely not the only incident of burning holy books, a grave violation of religious freedom. Religious books including the Quran and the Bible were burned in many countries in the past many times including several times in the last decade. Burning religious books often lead to tensions and…

The UN peacekeepers are going to be withdrawn at the end of this month from Mali after decades of peace operations in the conflicting country. According to multiple sources including CNN, the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali is set to be ended on June 30. The Malian government called for the immediate exit of the UN peacekeepers earlier blaming the mission a failure. It is pertinently notable that the UN keeps its peacekeepers based on the request of a sovereign country. But given that there are continued conflicts in the trouble-hit country, the exit of the peacekeepers…