CAMEROON: Top opposition leader, Anicet Ekane, has died after weeks of detention on charges of insurrection, his lawyers and family said today, alleging that he had struggled to breathe but didn’t receive proper care.

His lawyer Emmanuel Simh: “Mr Ekane was critically sick, he was denied appropriate treatment.

“Mr Ekane committed no crime, so we need to know why he was arrested and abandoned in the prison cell of the paramilitary gendarmerie.”

THE HAGUE: The president of the International Criminal Court, Judge Tomoko Akane, said during the institution’s annual meeting today that it would not bow to pressure from the United States and Russia.

Nine staff members have been sanctioned by US President Donald Trump for pursuing investigations into US and Israeli officials, while Moscow has issued warrants for staff in response to an arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine.

PAKISTAN: A suicide bomb attack near a police vehicle in north-west Pakistan bordering Afghanistan killed at least one officer today and wounded several others, officials said.

The attack happened in Lakki Marwat, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, local police official Ashfaq Khan said, without providing further details.

UKRAINE: President Volodymyr Zelensky met French President Emmanuel Macron today at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris, part of a flurry of diplomatic activity aimed at brokering the terms for a potential ceasefire in the nearly four-year-old war in Ukraine.

President Zelensky’s visit to Paris followed a meeting between Ukrainian and United States officials in Florida on Sunday, which Secretary of State Marco Rubio described as productive.