RWANDA: Prominent opposition leader Victoire Ingabire was arrested on Thursday over charges that she assisted an alleged plot to incite public unrest.

Ms Ingabire is being detained in the Rwandan capital of Kigali. Her team of international lawyers, in a statement, called her arrest “baseless and politically motivated.”

The Rwanda Investigations Bureau has linked Ingabire to alleged subversion after her name was mentioned in an ongoing criminal case against nine people accused of plotting to overthrow President Paul Kagame's government.

MEXICO: Authorities in the south were still assessing damage and watching rising rivers as rain from the remnants of Hurricane Erick doused the region.

Torrential rains over steep coastal mountains, along with the landslides and flooding they could generate, have become an ongoing concern for officials this week. Erick dissipated following a landfall early on Thursday on a sparsely populated stretch of coast.

At least one death was confirmed late Thursday, a one-year-old boy who drowned in a swollen river.

Erick had strengthened to a Category Four storm as it approached the coast, but weakened before making landfall to a Category Three.

TURKEY: Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is scheduled to hold talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today as part of the two countries' efforts to normalise ties.

Talks between the two countries, which have no formal diplomatic ties, were expected to centre on reopening their joint border, as well as the war between Israel and Iran.

Turkey strongly backed Azerbaijan's ethnic cleansing of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020, which ended with a Russia-brokered peace deal that saw Azerbaijan gain control of the region.

NIGER: Armed men killed 34 soldiers and wounded 14 others in the west near the Mali and Burkina Faso borders, the defense ministry said on Thursday.

The attack was carred out around 9am in Banibangou by attackers using eight vehicles and more than 200 motorbikes, the ministry said in a statement.

The government said its forces killed dozens of attackers it called “terrorists,” adding that search operations by land and air were being conducted to find additional assailants.