Current events: 2025-04-30

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Red Sea crisis
  • US–UK airstrikes on Yemen
    • The Royal Air Force launches airstrikes on buildings they claimed were used by the Houthis to manufacture drones south of Sanaa, Yemen. (CTV News)
• Puntland–Somaliland dispute
  • Las Anod conflict, Puntland–Somaliland prisoner exchange
    • Puntland releases fifteen prisoners of war in exchange for Somaliland releasing eleven combatants captured during the conflict in the contested Sool region. This is the second prisoner exchange of prisoners captured during the conflict in Las Anod. (Hiiraan Online) (Horn Observer)
• Colombian conflict
  • The Colombian government says fifteen police officers and twelve soldiers have been killed over the past two weeks in targeted attacks by the Gulf Clan cartel and other armed groups. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Israel fires
  • Wildfires, reported to the be the largest in Israel's history, rage out of control in at least 100 different locations, prompting the Israeli government to declare a state of emergency and forcing evacuations near Jerusalem. (CNN)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Taiwan, Somaliland–Taiwan relations
  • The Somali government announces a ban on the entry and transit of Taiwanese passport holders through Somalia citing United Nations Resolution 2758 and the One China policy. Taiwan warns its citizens against traveling to Somaliland or Somalia in response. (BBC News) (Reuters)
• New Zealand–Philippines relations
  • New Zealand defence minister Judith Collins and Philippine defense secretary Gilbert Teodoro sign a visiting forces agreement in Manila. (The Washington Post)

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