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In a statement released on Sunday, the Gambian government confirmed that it was holding Tchiroma “temporarily” there on “humanitarian grounds” while working toward a “peaceful and diplomatic resolution” to the country’s post-electoral tensions.

Following the disputed election in October, The Gambia worked with regional partners like Nigeria to “support a peaceful and negotiated outcome,” according to the statement posted on the office of Gambian President Adama Barrow’s Facebook page.

Biya, the oldest head of state in the world, received 53.7 percent of the vote, compared to 35.2% for Tchiroma, a former government minister leading the Cameroon National Salvation Front, who received the results of official election results.

However, Tchiroma, who claimed voter tampering, claimed he was the real winner. He later claimed that this was a constitutional coup that was both flagrant and shameful. It was electoral theft.

The opposition leader repeatedly exhorted supporters to stage “dead city” protests by closing shops and halting other public events.

Despite the opposition and civil society organizations’ claims, the Cameroonian government has confirmed that at least five people were killed during the demonstrations.

Tchiroma has been accused of making repeated calls for insurrection by the government, which the government has stated it intends to bring.

Following a constitutional amendment that removed term limits in 2008, Biya came to power in 1982 after the first president of Cameroon resigned.

The far-right former leader claimed that he had a “paranoia” in a soldering iron during a custody hearing on Sunday following his detention the day before the incident and that he had been detained the day before.

Bolsonaro tried to find out what had happened in a wiretap in the ankle monitoring, according to Assistant Judge Luciana Sorrentino in a court filing that was made public shortly after the former president’s online interview. Bolsonaro claimed in a court document that he had “hallucinations” that he had “hallucinated” this.

Bolsonaro was under house arrest on suspicion of breaking the law, but he was taken into custody on Saturday after police claimed he had attempted to break the ankle tag, making him a potential flight risk. Bolsonaro is currently appealing his conviction for a botched military coup.

After receiving information at 12:08 am Saturday, at 03:08 GMT, Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes determined that the tag had been violated.

Bolsonaro&nbsp, who denied trying to escape, claimed the episode was caused by a combination of medications that were prescribed by various doctors. He claimed that only four days before his detention on Saturday morning, he began taking one of them.

According to the court record, the witness claimed that he altered the ankle bracelet around midnight before “coming to terms with it” and stopped using the soldering iron, telling the officers in charge of his custody.

The attorneys for Bolsonaro claimed that the former president should remain under house arrest because of his poor health at the meeting on Sunday. Similar requests have previously been turned down by De Moraes.

After being defeated by Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in 2022, a panel of Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled in September that Bolsonaro attempted to hold onto the presidency and win back favor, and sentenced him to 27 years and three months in prison.

The pre-emptive arrest order will be decided on Monday by the same panel.

Despite a surprisingly friendly meeting between the two politically divided men at the White House this week, New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani says he still believes that US President Donald Trump is a fascist.

In an interview that was broadcast on NBC News on Sunday, Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist, said, “That’s something I’ve said in the past, I say it today.”

Two days after meeting with Trump, Mamdani made the remarks, promising to work together on the city’s future and putting aside months of mutual animosities.

Following the incoming mayor’s victory on the upcoming election, Trump, a native of New York, described Mamdani as a “100% Communist Lunatic,” and Mamdani has claimed that Trump is attacking democracy.

Trump even intervened during their meeting to help the New Yorker, who was born in Uganda, as the two addressed reporters at the White House.

The president intervened when a journalist inquired whether Mamdani still believed in Trump as a fascist.

You can simply say, “That’s fine. Trump explained to Mamdani that that is simpler. It’s simpler than explaining it, he said. I don’t mind”.

In the NBC interview, Mamdani further elaborated on his position.

He said, “The thing I liked most about the conversation I had with the president was that we weren’t shy about the issues that had caused us to reach this point,” he said.

The president and I had a productive conversation that repeatedly brought up the main themes of the campaign that we ran: the cost of housing, childcare, groceries, and utilities.

Trump praised Mamdani’s historic victory at their meeting, saying he could do a “great job” after threatening to cut federal funding for the US’s largest city and to send in the US National Guard.

“We just had a fantastic, extremely productive meeting,” he said. We all share the desire to do very well in this particular city,” he said later. We will assist him in achieving everyone’s goal of having a strong, secure New York.

On the CNN news program State of the Union, National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett stated that Trump wants to collaborate with everyone who cares about the country’s future.

In a letter to Dhaka on Sunday, the interim government’s foreign affairs head, Touhid Hossain, demanded that New Delhi hand over the fugitive ex-leader. Hossain claimed on Sunday that Hossain held the position there for two days.

Prior to the United Nations’ report that Hasina, 78, was hiding in India, her close ally when she served as Bangladesh’s prime minister for 15 years, before her autocratic rule was overthrown in a mass uprising in August 2024, which resulted in more than 1, 400 deaths,

Following a crucial promise made by the interim government, led by Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus, on Monday, a special International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) in Dhaka found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced Hasina to death.

In a statement, Bangladesh’s Foreign Ministry stated that India owed an “obligatory responsibility” under a 2013 bilateral extradition treaty to facilitate the former leader’s return in response to the court ruling.

The ministry argued that granting asylum to those who have been found guilty of crimes against humanity is a “grave act of unfriendly behavior” and that it would be “a travesty of justice” to grant it to any other nation.

The Indian Foreign Ministry responded by stating that the Hasina decision had been “not taken into account.” However, India has so far not commented on her potential extradition. According to Bangladeshi newspaper Prothom Alo, Dhaka has so far submitted at least three extradition requests.

Since her overthrow, relations between the two South Asian neighbors have deteriorated due to India’s prior support for Hasina.

After meeting with Ajit Doval and Bangladesh’s National Security Advisor Khalilur Rahman in India for a regional security summit, tensions appear to have eased a little this week.

Doval has been invited for a visit by Rahman, according to reports in Bangladesh.