Kenya's streets remained a battleground as protests, sparked by controversial tax hikes, evolve into a wider outcry against deep-rooted economic disparities and a perceived lack of government accountability.

Russia threatens the United States over plans to deploy American long-range missiles on German territory. Moscow promises “mirror measures.” “If the United States of America implements such plans,

Bangladesh’s top court has scrapped most of the quotas on government jobs that had sparked violent clashes across the country that have killed more than 100 people. A third of public sector jobs had been reserved for the relatives of veterans from the country’s war for independence from Pakistan in 1971.

The security agencies in Uzbekistan have re-arrested twenty-three members of Hizb ut Tahrir. The agencies commenced trial procedures against these Shabab (shebaab) on 9 May 2024, based upon the same charges for which they were tried, during the time of the fallen tyrant Karimov. The Shabab had already spent nearly twenty years, under imprisonment and torture, from between 1999-2000.