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Posted by BW Actual on Nov 18th 2025

Gaza

The UN Security Council (UNSC) approved Pres. Trump's peace proposal for Gaza, clearing the path to start solidifying reconstruction plans.
One of the key next steps will be to explicitly define the role of the International Stabilization Force (ISF) the plan establishes, so that the ISF can start recruiting. Several countries in the region (e.g. Jordan) have said they will only contribute troops to the force if its mandate is peacekeeping - as opposed to peace enforcement.
Unusually, neither China nor Russia used its UNSC veto power to block this U.S. resolution. Both merely abstained from voting, thereby allowing the proposal to pass. That was probably because the measure enjoyed broad support from all 13 other UNSC members, and China and Russia didn't want to block something their Arab allies enthusiastically support. (They have no qualms about blocking most things the U.S. supports, and frequently veto U.S.-backed resolutions.)
Hamas was the only vocal dissent against the resolution. After the UNSC vote, Hamas complained in a Telegram post that an ISF with a mandate to disarm militants (mainly Hamas) will be "a party to the conflict in favour of the occupation."

Mozambique

The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), a human rights group, filed a complaint accusing French energy giant Total of complicity in war crimes for failing to stop Mozambican security forces from torturing and executing locals suspected of helping Islamic State target Total's facilities in Cabo Delgado in 2021.
Total acknowledges that bad things happened at and around its facilities in northern Mozambique in 2021 - that's why it paused its operations there for four years - but it denies any responsibility for the actions that government troops took on its behalf.

Nigeria

Gunmen kidnapped 25 schoolgirls from a secondary school in Nigeria's northwestern Kebbi state yesterday, in an attack that echoes the 2014 abduction of 276 girls from a school in the northeastern city of Chibok. Many of the Chibok girls are still missing a decade later.
A teacher at the Kebbi school made a point of clarifying that all of the girls who were abducted yesterday are Muslim, implying that this attack shouldn't be taken as an example of the "existential threat" Pres. Trump claims Nigeria's Christians are facing.

Ukraine

Following a meeting between Presidents Macron and Zelensky, Ukraine announced that it will buy 100 French-made Rafale fighter jets.
The Élysée Palace meeting was just one stop on Zelensky's ongoing European tour to solidify support and secure supplies.
He also visited Athens to sign an agreement for Greece's DEPA to supply U.S. liquefied natural gas to Ukraine via pipelines from Alexandroupolis to Odesa, and next he'll visit Spain to meet with weapons manufacturers.