On February 1, Myanmar’s military removed democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and declared a one-year state of emergency, which sparked global condemnation.
Israel's 11-day bombardment of the Gaza Strip, which began on May 10, killed at least 253 Palestinians, including 66 children, and wounded more than 1,900 people, according to Gaza's health ministry.
On July 23, Japan’s Tokyo 2020 Olympics opened with a sombre ceremony — in pictures aje.io/jatagc
On August 15, Taliban fighters were in the presidential palace in Kabul.
In a matter of weeks, the Taliban reversed 20 years of history in Afghanistan.
It happened at a speed that no one predicted. #AJStartHere explains ⤵️
On August 30, The US completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan as the final flight left Kabul, ending Washington’s 20-year war in the country after a chaotic evacuation effort.
On September 17, former Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika died aged 84, more than two years after he stepped down under pressure from mass protests and the army.
November 4 was the one year anniversary of Ethiopia’s brutal conflict.
With the front lines shifting and millions of civilians caught up in it. #AJStartHere asks who are the main groups involved and why are they fighting? ⤵️
'Big loss for Modi.'
India’s farmers called off a year-long protest after the government agreed to pending demands, including promises to consider guaranteed prices for all produce aje.io/7zncav
Explainer: Why were India's farmers protesting? aje.io/s36vux
On December 15, Gloria Jean Watkins, a pioneering Black feminist intellectual better known by her pen name, bell hooks, died aged 69.
Save the Children reports that thousands of missing Palestinian children are trapped under rubble, buried in unmarked graves, harmed by explosives, detained by Israeli forces, or lost in the chaos of the war on Gaza.
Israel’s top court has ordered the government to provide information about conditions inside the military facility Sde Teiman, where Palestinians from Gaza are detained.
Malnourished Palestinian children are being treated at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, as Israel continues to restrict aid to the besieged enclave.
The UN is adding Israel to its 'blacklist' of countries that have committed abuses against children in armed conflict, as more than 15,500 Palestinian children have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7.
An Israeli air attack on a home in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in northern Gaza has killed at least four Palestinians and injured 14 more, the Wafa news agency reports.
Two Palestinian men have been shot during an Israeli raid in the Aqabat Jabr camp in the occupied West Bank city of Jericho, the Wafa news agency reports.
Qatar, Egypt and the US urge Israel and Hamas to conclude a ceasefire agreement that embodies the principles outlined by US President Biden, amid Israel's continuing bombardment of besieged Gaza.
Alexandra Saieh, head of humanitarian policy and advocacy at Save the Children, has told Al Jazeera that “Gaza is witnessing the worst levels of malnutrition, of child malnutrition especially, worldwide right now.”
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has denounced far-right ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich for threatening to dissolve Benjamin Netanyahu’s government if he were to accept President Biden’s new ceasefire deal.
On May 29, South Africans will head to the polls to vote in national and provincial elections to elect a new National Assembly, which will choose the president for the next 5 years.
Here’s a guide to the elections and major political parties ⤵️
South Africa follows a proportional voting system where parties and candidates compete for 400 seats in the National Assembly.
For the first time, independent candidates will compete in the elections with voters given three ballots instead of two.
Who is in South Africa’s current National Assembly?
South Africa’s lower house of parliament currently includes 14 political parties represented by 400 members, allocated proportionally based on the votes each party received in the 2019 elections.
Israel calls the ICJ binding order to immediately stop its attack on Rafah “outrageous, morally repugnant and disgusting” as it continues its war and bombardment of Gaza.
The Elders group of world leaders has said “no country is above the law” and Israel’s “unlawful approach” to its war on Gaza cannot continue following the ICJ’s order to halt attacks on Rafah.
US Senator Bernie Sanders warned the US that if it ignores “crimes against humanity” being committed in Gaza, it will not have the credibility to criticise “the actions of any country, no matter how terrible.”