Situation Reports

The U.S. Trump administration is supporting Cove Kaz Capital Group's bid to develop two of Kazakhstan's largest tungsten deposits, facilitating negotiations with the sovereign wealth fund Samruk-Kazyna and exploring financing through the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation and Export-Import Bank, Bloomberg reported on Oct. 21.

Bogota's Superior Court revoked former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's convictions for fraud and bribery over an alleged witness tampering case, El Colombiano reported on Oct. 21.

Tens of thousands of people protested in the southern Tunisian city of Gabes the same day that shops, businesses, schools and markets closed for a general strike to protest pollution and health concerns in the city due to a polluting CGT phosphate plant, Reuters reported on Oct. 21.

The United States and Qatar urged the European Union to withdraw or substantially amend its planned Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), arguing it would otherwise complicate liquefied natural gas exports from both countries to the bloc, the Financial Times reported on Oct. 22, citing a joint letter.

The United States stopped work on facilitating a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Politico reported on Oct. 21, citing a U.S. official given anonymity to speak on the matter.

Cameroon's National Vote Counting Commission released provisional results for the country's Oct. 12 presidential election that show President Paul Biya receiving 53.66% of votes, against 35.66% of votes for opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary, Jeune Afrique reported on Oct. 21.

U.S. President Donald Trump's Senior Advisor for Africa, Massad Boulos, said in an interview with Bloomberg that the reauthorization of the African Growth and Opportunity Act, or AGOA, was "moving positively in the right direction," the news outlet reported on Oct. 20.

Devlet Bahceli, a key ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, warned the self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus against resuming talks on establishing a two-state federation on the divided island, saying annexation by Turkey was "inevitable" and calling for Northern Cyprus' parliament to declare the recent presidential election results invalid, Bianet reported on Oct. 21.

Brazil's environment agency approved a license allowing state-run oil company Petrobras to carry out exploratory drilling at the Equatorial Margin, 500 kilometers (311 miles) from the mouth of the Amazon River, g1 reported on Oct. 20.

Center-right Sen. Rodrigo Paz Pereira of the Christian Democratic Party, or PDC, received 54.5% of the vote in Bolivia's Oct. 19 presidential runoff election, according to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal's official count, with 97% of the votes counted, DW reported the same day.