In Mozambique, opposition politician Venancio Mondlane has been hit with five criminal charges, including instigation to terrorism, following last year’s post-election unrest.

Mondlane, a fierce critic of the ruling FRELIMO party, says he’s being targeted for exposing what he calls “massive electoral fraud” during the October 9 election. That vote was won by President Daniel Chapo.

After the election, Mondlane led months of protests that spread across the country. The violence left at least 400 dead and 600 injured, allegedly at the hands of police.

Now, 31 officers are facing trial for their roles.

Mondlane says he’s entering court with a clear conscience and an international legal team. He accuses the Chapo government of betraying a peace deal they both signed in March.

That agreement had sparked hope, leading to new reforms and a national reconciliation law passed in April.

But tensions are rising again, and Mozambique’s fragile democracy hangs in the balance.

At least 81 Fulani men, disappeared. Another dozen, executed.

These are the accusations Human Rights Watch made against Mali’s armed forces and the Russian Wagner Group, which has been operating on Malian territory supporting the armed forces for the past few years, on Tuesday.

The NGO said that it documented at least a dozen Fulani men who were executed and 81 others who were forcibly disappeared by the Malian army and the Wagner group since January 2025.

The alleged crimes happened during joint operations targeting Islamist militias.

According to HRW, Islamist armed groups frequently attempt to recruit Fulani men.

This has made the entire community a target for the Malian government.

The Russian Wagner Group, which is not officially supported by the Russian government, has been accused of crimes against the civilian population in several cases in the past.

HRW called on the African Union to put pressure on Mali’s military junta to investigate the allegations.

President Donald Trump baselessly accused former president Barack Obama and others of illegally plotting against him, calling it “treason” and declaring: “It’s time to go after people.”

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office Tuesday during a meeting with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Trump listed Obama, Hillary Clinton, former FBI Director James Comey, former Director of National Intelligence John Brennan and others who he accused of plotting against him and attempting to “rig the election.”

“After what they did to me, whether it’s right or wrong, it’s time to go after people,” Trump said from the Oval Office as he repeated a baseless claim former President Barack Obama and other officials had engaged in treason.

Trump was not making his claims for the first time, but he delivered them when administration officials are harnessing the machinery of the federal government to investigate the targets of Trump’s derision, including key officials responsible for scrutinizing Russia’s attempts to intervene on Trump’s behalf in 2016.

Trump’s tirade unfolded against the backdrop of a new report from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that represented his administration’s latest attempt to rewrite the history of the Russia investigation, which has infuriated him for years.

The report, released Friday, downplayed the extent of Russian interference in the 2016 election by highlighting Obama administration emails showing officials had concluded before and after the contest that Moscow had not hacked state election systems to manipulate votes in Trump’s favor.

But Obama’s Democratic administration never suggested otherwise even as it exposed other means by which Russia interfered in the election, including through a massive hack-and-leak operation of Democratic emails by intelligence operatives working with WikiLeaks, as well as a covert foreign influence campaign aimed at swaying public opinion and sowing discord through fake social media posts.

Democrats swiftly decried the report as factually flawed and politically motivated.

Russia’s broad interference in 2016 has been established through a series of investigations, including special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation and a thorough 2020 Senate Intelligence Committee report that was completed when the panel was led by Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, who’s now Trump’s secretary of state.