In a major blow to prospects for a competitive 2024 presidential poll in Venezuela, the Maduro government announced that opposition frontrunner María Corina Machado is barred from holding public office for 15 years, meaning she will be unable to participate in the election.In Syria, deadly hostilities between Türkiye and Kurdish militants escalated in the north, while Russia and regime forces stepped up attacks in the north west to levels not witnessed since late 2021.Amid a string of failed ceasefires, the conflict in Sudan between the army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces drew in other armed groups, while fighting in Darfur exploded along ethnic lines.As political tensions surged in DR Congo ahead of December general elections, clashes between the M23 rebellion and army-backed local armed groups resumed, jeopardising a fragile ceasefire observed on the ground since April.Uganda suffered its deadliest attack in years as suspected members of the Allied Democratic Forces Islamist militia raided a school near the Congolese border, brutally murdering at least 44 people, most of them children.Lawmakers in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s self-governing entity, Republika Srpska, voted to suspend rulings by the country’s constitutional court, fuelling fears the entity is moving toward secession.In the most serious challenge ever to President Putin’s grip on power, Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin spearheaded an insurrection in Russia, advancing within 200km of Moscow before abruptly aborting the mission and seemingly leaving the Kremlin reeling. ![]() CrisisWatch identified twelve deteriorations in June.
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