As 2023 comes to a close, here are the top ten most notable world events of the year.

Internally-displaced people flee after heavy gunfire broke out in Damazin in the Blue Nile state September 7, 2011. (Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Courtesy Reuters) The International Crisis Group (ICG) …

He recalls the popular challenge now underway against Omar al-Bashir’s rule in Sudan; the deaths of Kofi Annan, the first African secretary General of UN, and Winnie Mandela, a flawed leader of the South African liberation movement; the highly positive emergence of the reform-minded Abiy Ahmed, the Ethiopian prime minister; and the international attention to Congolese surgeon Denis Mukwege, who won a Nobel Peace prize for his work with rape victims.