Congress unanimously voted to remove President Dina Boluarte shortly after midnight, and within an hour swore in Congress chief José Jeri as the new president. The move came amid mounting public anger over escalating crime rates and corruption allegations, including the so-called “Rolexgate” scandal over Boluarte’s luxury watch collection. Lawmakers had summoned Boluarte on 9 October 2025 to defend herself, but she failed to appear, triggering a rapid impeachment process. Her approval ratings had sunk to between 2% and 4%, as she faced accusations of illicit enrichment and responsibility for lethal crackdowns on protests in support of her ousted predecessor. Jeri, a 38-year-old from the conservative Somos Peru party who became Congress president in July 2025, vowed to launch a “war on crime,” declaring that criminal gangs on the streets were the main enemy. Protests and celebrations erupted outside Congress and the Ecuadorian embassy; some speculated Boluarte might seek asylum. In a farewell address at the presidential palace, she warned that the Congressional vote had major implications for Peru’s democratic stability.

At around 9:30 a.m. local time, a man drove a car into pedestrians outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue on Middleton Road in the Crumpsall area of north Manchester, where worshippers had gathered for Yom Kippur services. After ramming the vehicle into people, he exited the car and began stabbing bystanders, including a synagogue security guard. Police received the first emergency call at 9:31 a.m. and armed officers were dispatched to the scene. Officers opened fire, shooting and killing the suspect. The attack left two people dead and three others seriously injured. Because the suspect was found with what appeared to be an explosive device, bomb disposal experts were called in, delaying confirmation of his death until the area was secured. Authorities declared the attack a terrorist incident and identified the attacker as 35-year-old Jihad Al-Shamie, a British citizen of Syrian descent.

More than 5,000 people have fled from Nigeria’s northeast into neighboring Cameroon after Boko Haram militants seized the border town of Kirawa in Borno state, while others ran to Maiduguri, the state capital. There have been no confirmed official reports specifying the number of deaths or injuries in the attack which forced the district head, Abdulrahman Abubakar, to flee. His palace was burned along with a military barracks and most of the town’s homes. Following the fall of the town, the militants released a video of fighters torching the military barracks. The attack followed a 19 September assault on Banki, another border town, where militants overran a military barracks, forcing soldiers to flee and seizing weapons. Borno state, the epicenter of a 16-year conflict involving Boko Haram and its Islamic State West Africa Province splinter group (ISWAP), has experienced a surge in militant attacks this year, targeting both security forces and civilians.

During the afternoon hours, a group of militants targeted the regional headquarters of the Frontier Corps, a paramilitary force, in Quetta, the capital and largest city of the Balochistan province. The attack began with a suicide bomber detonating a pickup truck laden with explosives (VBIED) at the entrance of the headquarters, after which several gunmen stormed the building and engaged in a firefight with security forces. Members of the paramilitary forces reportedly killed four of the attackers following a brief exchange of gunfire. At least 10 people, including two soldiers and eight civilians, were killed in the attack, and 33 others were wounded. No group claimed responsibility for the attack. Islamist militant groups and separatist insurgents have both escalated attacks in the province in recent months.

On 26 September, detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), working with the Kibra Sarang’ombe community policing team, have rescued a six-year-old girl who was kidnapped earlier in the week. The girl had vanished after someone unknown picked her up from her school in the Runda area. Her mother soon received a ransom call by an unidentified caller using an known number demanding Sh300,000 (about US$2330) in exchange for her safe release. A forensic-led investigation led officers to the Soweto slums in Kibra, where they found the child asleep in an unfinished church building, wrapped in worn bedding. Her school uniform and shoes were recovered at the scene. The suspect had fled just before the raid, abandoning the girl. She was immediately taken to a medical facility for care and observation. Security agencies have intensified efforts to apprehend the kidnapper. (capitalfm.co.ke, 26 September 2025)