Peru, Chad, South Africa-Nigeria
Today's three stories you should know
Peru
Keiko Fujimori will be sworn in as Peru's president today, becoming the country’s 10th leader since 2016 after a decade of political turmoil. Her election underlines a continued rightward shift in Latin America, with a string of recently elected conservative leaders who advocate closer ties to U.S. President Donald Trump and who have vowed to crack down on crime. Fujimori, 51, is the daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori, a divisive figure who dominated Peruvian politics in the 1990s before being jailed for human rights abuses. In previous elections, she distanced herself from his legacy but this time she embraced it and recast herself as a leader who would govern in her father’s manner.
More from Reuters here.
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Chad
Chad has become the latest in a string of countries to leave the International Criminal Court (ICC), as the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump escalates a pressure campaign against the court. Chad’s military government announced it had formally begun the process to withdraw from the ICC, which prosecutes war crimes and other violations of humanitarian law and is based in The Hague in the Netherlands. It becomes the fifth African country to turn its back on the court in recent months. Though the U.S. has never joined the ICC and has expressed long-running animosity toward it, the hostility grew when the court issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-defense minister Yoav Gallant in 2024.
More from Al Jazeera here.
South Africa-Nigeria
Nigeria has said that South Africa plans to bring to justice those responsible for a spate of attacks against immigrants after relations between the two sharply soured when large numbers of Nigerians were targeted. Anti-immigration marches and vigilante attacks on foreigners were considered so extreme that Nigeria offered voluntary repatriation for its citizens, flying about 1,490 people out. The commitment from South Africa, which came after talks in Abuja between Nigeria’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Sola Enikanolaiye, and South African International Relations Minister Ronald Lamola, may cool increasingly bellicose rhetoric from Africa’s two biggest economies.
More from Reuters here.