Crisis Deepens in Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, and Beyond

Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif is a Pakistani politician and businessman who has served as the prime minister of Pakistan since March 2024, having previously been in the role between April 2022 to August 2023. He has also served as the president of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) and chief minister of Punjab three times, making him the longest-serving person in the role.

Mojtaba Khamenei

Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei is an Iranian politician and Muslim cleric. The second eldest child of Ali Khamenei, the former supreme leader of Iran, Mojtaba Khamenei served in the Iran–Iraq War from 1987 to 1988, and also reportedly took control of the Basij that was used to suppress the protests over the 2009 election.

Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012. He has been described as the de facto leader of Russia since 2000.

MOSOP president

The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), is a social movement organization representing the indigenous Ogoni people of Rivers State, Nigeria. The Ogoni contend that Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), along with other petroleum multinationals and the Nigerian government, have destroyed their environment, polluted their rivers, and provided no benefits in return for enormous oil revenues extracted from their lands.

Bola Tinubu

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu is a Nigerian politician serving as the 16th and current president of Nigeria since 2023. He previously served as the governor of Lagos State from 1999 to 2007 and senator for Lagos West in the Third Republic.

Mr. Oyedele

Taiwo Oyedele is a Nigerian economist, accountant and public policy expert. He serves as the chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms in Nigeria appointed by President Bola Tinubu. In March 2026, he was nominated by President Bola Tinubu to serve as Minister of State for Finance to replace Doris Uzoka-Anite.

Doris Anite-Uzoka

Doris Nkiruka Uzoka-Anite is a Nigerian politician, medical doctor and financial analyst. She served as Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment of Nigeria between August 2023 and October 2024. She is the Nigerian Minister of State for Finance, a position she assumed in November 2, 2024.

Otti

Vincent Otti was a Ugandan militant who served as deputy-leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel guerrilla army operating mainly in northern Uganda and South Sudan. He was one of the five persons for whom the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued its first arrest warrants on 8 July 2005 in its investigation in Uganda. Rumours of his death began to circulate in October 2007 and strengthened in January 2008. On 17 November 2023, the ICC terminated proceedings against him, confirming his death.