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For Europe, the week brought back an unwelcome memory: the kind of creeping economic dread last seen when Covid-19 tore through the continent and pushed its economies to the brink in 2020 and 2021. "If this war escalates into a major regional conflict," Chancellor Friedrich Merz said at a Berlin news conference on Monday, "it could burden Germany and Europe even more than we experienced most recently during the Covid-19 pandemic or at the beginning of the war in Ukraine." Those two crises still loom large in EU capitals,…

While President Felix Tshisekedi continues his tour of the eastern country to evaluate the results of the siege and army operations, the UN expert group published its final report on June 16, including a large part devoted to North Kivu. In particular, he takes stock of operations against the ADF, an Islamist rebel group that was originally Ugandan. The expert group interviewed more than 140 people from…

Caged and has misplaced Mogadishu, Farmajo's restricted means to save lots of "legacy" MOGADISHU, Somalia | The final 4 months have been hectic for Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, in what might outline his tenure as both a statesman or an imperial dictator who strives to remain on the helm regardless of his dwindling fortunes. With the strain of the worldwide group and this from…