Portal:Current events/2024 February 28

February 28, 2024 (2024-02-28) (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• The Chadian government announces that an overnight attack on Chad’s security services headquarters in N'Djamena has resulted in the deaths of several individuals, accusing the Socialist Party without Borders of carrying out the attack. Sporadic gunshots near the opposition party’s office and internet restrictions in parts of the capital is reported. (BBC News) (Al Jazeera English)

Disasters and accidents

• Oil begins to wash ashore on Bonaire, Leeward Antilles, believed to have originated from the ship Gulfstream with around 35,000 barrels of oil on board that capsized near Tobago earlier this month. (BBC News)
• At least 17 people are killed after two buses collide in San Juan de Opoa, Copán Department, Honduras. (Reuters)

International relations

• China urges the world's largest nuclear states to negotiate a "no first use treaty". China and India are currently the only two nuclear powers to formally maintain a no first use policy. (Reuters)
• Officials in the Russia-backed breakaway region of Transnistria, internationally recognised as a part of Moldova, appeal to the Russian Duma for more intervention in Transnistria amid increasing tension with the government of Moldova. (Associated Press)

Law and crime

• LGBT rights in Ghana
  • The Parliament of Ghana passes a law making the promotion or advocacy of LGBT rights punishable by five years in prison. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell announces that he will step down as Senate Minority Leader in November, having served as the Senate GOP leader since 2007. (ABC News)
• Megxit
  • In the United Kingdom, High Court of Justice Judge Peter Richard Lane rejects a legal challenge from Prince Harry against the government's decision to take away the prince's automatic right to police protection when he is in the country. (Sky News)

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