Current events: 2025-10-27

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• War in the Sahel
  • Mali War
    • Mali's military junta closes all schools and universities across the country amid a fuel blockade by al-Qaeda-aligned JNIM insurgents. (Al Jazeera)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Siege of El Fasher
    • Rapid Support Forces militants overrun the city of El Fasher, Sudan after a two-year-long siege, slaughtering civilians on the outskirts of the city. (The Guardian)
• Israeli–Hezbollah conflict
  • Two people are killed in an Israeli airstrike against a carpentry workshop in Al-Bayyad, Lebanon. (AA)

Arts and culture

• LGBTQ rights in the United Kingdom
  • King Charles III dedicates a memorial to LGBTQ members of the Armed Forces at the National Memorial Arboretum in Lichfield, Staffordshire, United Kingdom, on the 25-year anniversary of the end to the country's ban on gay servicemen. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Melissa reaches Category 5 intensity and nears the island nation of Jamaica, threatening catastrophic damage. (NBC) (Washington Post) (Fox Weather)

International relations

• Cambodia–Thailand relations
  • 2025 Cambodia–Thailand border crisis
    • Despite signing a provisional ceasefire agreement at the ASEAN Summit, Thai prime minister Anutin Charnvirakul denies any formal plans to reopen border crossings with Cambodia. (The Nation)

Law and crime

• A court in Mali sentences former prime minister Moussa Mara to 2 years in prison on charges of undermining state security and inciting public disorder. Mara will serve one year without parole and one year as a suspended sentence. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Cameroonian presidential election
  • The Supreme Court of Cameroon says that incumbent Paul Biya won the election, which the opposition rejects. (AP)
• 2025 Czech parliamentary election
  • Czech president Petr Pavel asks former prime minister Andrej Babiš to form a new government after his party ANO won a majority in the parliamentary elections earlier this month. (AP)
• Venezuelan opposition politician Leopoldo López accuses President Nicolás Maduro of making an "arbitrary decision" by asking the Supreme Tribunal of Justice to strip him and Nobel Laureate María Corina Machado of their Venezuelan citizenship on the accusation of treason. López, who lives in exile in Spain, had his passport revoked on Saturday. (Infobae) (Bloomberg)

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