Situation Reports

The U.N.-chartered ship Brave Commander left the Ukrainian port of Yuzhny with 23,000 metric tons of wheat for Ethiopia, Reuters reported Aug. 14.

Ethiopia's central bank announced that it would consider enforcing mergers and acquisitions (M&A) on local banks to ensure that they can face up to foreign competitors, The Reporter reported Aug. 13.

The U.S. military said drones attacked its al-Tanf military base in eastern Syria, causing no damage or casualties, AP reported Aug. 15.

Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) conducted a suicide bombing that killed prominent senior Taliban cleric Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani in Kabul, Afghanistan, Reuters reported Aug. 11.

A group of property investors in China's eastern city of Hefei wrote a letter to the government asking that Beijing crack down on homebuyers who are threatening to withhold mortgage payments, Reuters reported Aug. 12.

Three days after polls closed in Kenya's Aug. 9 general elections, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC, the official vote-counting body) tallied approximately 2% of the results, The Star reported Aug. 12.

South African police arrested 22 suspects for their alleged role in the July 2021 riots and unrest in which 350 people died, Bloomberg reported Aug. 12.

Five Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) with a combined market cap of nearly $320 billion, all of which the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission deems "national-level Chinese [SOEs]," announced their plans to delist from U.S. stock exchanges, Bloomberg reported Aug. 12.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced that the country's authorities had successfully completed the third filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Addis Standard reported Aug. 12.

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said it carried out an operation on Aug. 8 against a Turkish military vehicle inside Turkey, killing 23 Turkish soldiers, in retaliation for a drone attack, Kurdistan 24 reported Aug. 11.