Portal:Current events/2023 May 26

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2022–2023 Dnipro missile strikes
    • A Russian missile strike on Dnipro damages a medical facility, killing two people and injuring 23 others. (Ukrainska Pravda) (The Guardian)
• Somali Civil War
  • Fifty-four Ugandan soldiers are killed after Al-Shabaab gunmen storm an AMISOM base in Bulomarer. (Al Jazeera)
• Allied Democratic Forces insurgency, Kivu conflict
  • Seventeen civilians are killed by Allied Democratic Forces members in Beni, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP)
• Mali War
  • Germany's Bundestag votes 375–263, with one abstention, to approve the Bundeswehr's deployment in Mali as part of the UN's MINUSMA peacekeeping mission until May 31, 2024. (DW)

International relations

• Foreign nationals detained in Iran
  • The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs swaps Asadollah Asadi for Belgian prisoner Olivier Vandecasteele. (CNN)

Politics and elections

• 2023 Guatemalan general election
  • The Constitutional Court of Guatemala blocks the candidacy of frontrunner Carlos Pineda in the 2023 Guatemalan general election due to alleged violations of electoral law. (AP)