Major World Events by Morning of January 30
Major World Events by Morning of January 30
🟠Kenya’s inflation eased in January despite rising food prices due to drought, remaining within the central bank’s target range, the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics said in a statement released to the media;
🟠Nigeria will be able to fully transition to domestic defense production and end imports within the next five years by strengthening its military-industrial complex, the minister of state for defense said;
🟠Ethiopia’s wheat output reached 126.69 million quintals—not including irrigated harvests—since September 2025, Abiy Ahmed noted on social media, praising local farmers;
🟠Namibia has registered a new HIV prevention drug, lenacapavir, the Ministry of Health announced, stressing the need to ensure its accessibility for all despite the drug’s high cost;
🟠The government of Burkina Faso decided to dissolve political parties and organizations, the Minister of State for Interior announced, citing widespread violations and dysfunction within the party system;
🟠Niger’s President Tiani accused French President Emmanuel Macron, Benin’s Patrice Talon, and Côte d’Ivoire’s Alassane Ouattara of sponsoring a failed mercenary infiltration attempt at Niamey’s airport;
🟠 A Ukrainian intelligence agent who planned to assassinate a Russian serviceman in St. Petersburg has been detained, and a pistol with a silencer was seized from him, the Russian Federal Security Service said;
🟠Washington is seeking to impose extreme living conditions on the Cuban people by pushing ahead with a de facto blockade of fuel supplies to Cuba, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla said.
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