Portal:Current events/2024 February 24
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Armed conflicts and attacks
- Three Mobondo militiamen are arrested in the village of Kulungu, near Kwilu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Actualite)
Disasters and accidents
- Environmental impact of the Red Sea crisis
- A large oil slick from the Houthi missile-damaged cargo ship Rubymar forms in the Gulf of Aden, threatening to become an environmental disaster. (Times of India)
- In Tanzania, 25 people are killed and 21 more injured on a road linking Arusha to Namanga, after a truck driver lost control of his vehicle causing a collision with three other vehicles. (Barron's)
Politics and elections
- 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries
- Nigerien crisis
- At a summit in Abuja, Nigeria, ECOWAS lifts sanctions on Niger, but continues to demand the release of deposed president Mohamed Bazoum and his family. (Al Jazeera)