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  1. After more than 20 months in detention, Sherifa Riahi has been reunited with her family following her release from prison in Tunisia. The former director of the French NGO Terre d’Asile, along with two colleagues, was freed on Tuesday.
  2. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed deep concern over recent US military action in Venezuela, calling for the immediate release of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife.
  3. The Somali Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on Monday condemned, “in the strongest terms,” the unauthorized incursion of the Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs into Hargeisa, describing the visit as a “serious violation” of Somalia’s territorial sovereignty.
  4. The Israeli foreign minister said Tuesday that Israel would soon open an embassy in Somaliland as he made the first visit there since his government's contentious move to formally recognize the breakaway Somali territory as a sovereign state.
  5. Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly issues an official decree declaring Wednesday, January 7, 2026, a paid public holiday in observance of Christmas.