Current events: 2025-03-26

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Sudanese civil war
  • Battle of Khartoum
    • RSF occupation of the Khartoum International Airport
      • The Sudanese Armed Forces retakes Khartoum International Airport from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and seizes state institutions in Khartoum captured earlier in the war by the RSF. (Al Arabiya)
      • Sudanese military leader and Transitional Sovereignty Council Chairman Abdel Fattah al-Burhan declares the liberation of Khartoum from RSF forces after 2-years of fighting. (France 24)

Business and economy

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • U.S. President Donald Trump announces a 25% tariff on all car imports to the U.S. will take effect from April 2. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Bolivia floods
  • Bolivia declares a national emergency after severe floods kill over fifty people and leave more than 100,000 people displaced from their homes. (Reuters)
• March 2025 South Korea wildfires
  • The death toll from the wildfires in Uiseong and Sancheong counties, South Korea, increases to 24, with 19 others injured. (DW)
• Secretary General of NATO Mark Rutte confirms the deaths of four American soldiers who went missing yesterday during training in Lithuania, close to the border of Belarus. (AP)
• The European Commission issues a new preparedness strategy for citizens of European Union member states to stockpile 72 hours of food, water and essentials for use in the event of an attack or natural disaster. (The Guardian)

International relations

• International recognition of Kosovo
  • Kenya–Kosovo relations
    • Kenya formally recognizes Kosovo as an independent sovereign state. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• German Federal Police carry out raids in six states targeting 17 people suspected to be members of Brigade N'Hamedu, a group advocating against the government of Eritrea by causing violence and disruptions at Eritrean cultural events in Germany. (DW) (Euronews)

Politics and elections

• United States government group chat leak
  • The Atlantic magazine releases the full text of a Signal group chat involving senior U.S. national security officials about recent strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen. In the conversation, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth provides exact times of warplane launches, strike packages, and targets. (CBC)

• The High Court in Seoul, South Korea, clears Democratic Party of Korea leader Lee Jae-myung of charges of violating election laws, allowing him to run in the next South Korean presidential election. (DW) (Maeil Business Newspaper)

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