Prominent Moroccan activist Said Ait Mahdi received a three-month prison sentence and a fine for
António Guterres has urged the M23 rebel group to halt its offensive in eastern DRC,
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro has declared emergency powers in response to rising violence in the
This week’s highlights include Donald Trump’s withdrawal of the U.S. from the Paris Agreement, the
Ghada Rifai, a Rutgers—Newark Ph.D. student, fled war-torn Syria in 2012. Now residing in Newark,
Fighting between the Congolese army and M23 rebels intensifies in eastern Congo, just before peace
Protests have erupted in Morocco following the death of a young man during police action.
After a 13-year hiatus, commercial flights between Turkey and Syria have resumed, with the first
M23 rebels have captured Minova, a key town for supplies to Goma, leading to significant
South Sudan has enacted a nationwide curfew from 6 p.m. to dawn to combat violence