Chad formally notified the United Nations of its intent to leave the International Criminal Court, becoming the fifth country to announce withdrawal in recent months and citing the court's 'limited and uneven' effectiveness and a focus on Africa it calls disproportionate.
Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Déby announced on July 15 at the African Water Forum in N'Djamena that Chad will eliminate entry visas for all African nationals starting January 1, 2027, making it one of a growing number of African Union member states scrapping intra-continental visa requirements
A coalition of armed gangs controls most of Haiti's capital and has expanded into three departments, displacing 1.4 million Haitians and collapsing state authority since 2024.
The arc of West and Central African states where military juntas displaced elected governments nine times since 2020, reshaping the Sahel's security and great-power alignments.
Guterres visits Port-au-Prince as the renamed mission fields ~1,000 of 5,500 authorised troops against gangs holding ~70% of the capital