BOLIVIA: The people of Bolivia went to the polls today for presidential and congressional elections.

All 130 seats in Bolivia’s Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of Parliament, are up for grabs, along with 36 in the Senate, the upper house.

If, as is widely expected, no-one receives more than 50 per cent of the vote, or 40 per cent of the vote with a lead of 10 percentage points, the top two candidates for president will compete in a run-off on October 19.

SERBIA: President Aleksandar Vucic announced tough new measures against anti-government protesters today following five days of riots across the country.

President Vucic accused the anti-government demonstrators of “pure terrorism” and alleged, without evidence, that it was part of a plot to install a future “anarcho-leftist” government.

NIGERIA: The leaders of Ansaru, an al-Qaida linked group and Mahmuda, a relatively new organisation, have been arrested, Nigeria’s national security adviser Nuhu Ribadu said on Saturday.

Mr Ribadu said Mahmud Muhammad Usman of Ansaru and Mahmud al-Nigeri of Mahmuda were arrested in an operation involving multiple agencies between May and July after a string of attacks earlier this year.

MYANMAR: An air attack by the Myanmar military on the town of Mogok, the centre of the south-east Asian country’s lucrative gem-mining industry, has killed at least 21 people, local media reported on Saturday.

The incident was the latest in a series of deadly military air attacks since the army seized power in February 2021.