Headlines for the week:

• Protests expand and evolve across Haiti, calling for the Prime Minister to resign and for international military interventions to stay away

• The European Parliament issues a groundbreaking resolution, calling for European countries to support a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty at COP 27

• Burkina Faso swears in Ibrahim Traore as a transitional president after his successful coup in September brought him to power

• Sudan sees intense tribal violence as conflict over land rights explodes

Headlines for the week:

• World's biggest climate summit picks world's worst plastic polluter as chief sponsor

• South Africa encounters funding deadlock because of predatory, high risk loans

• Okinawan protestors physically block construction of 33rd U.S. military base on the island

• Colombia resumes historic peace talks with rebel group, with potential to end a decades-long civil war

Headlines for the week:

• In Africa, Burkina Faso experiences a military coup, overthrowing an administration that governed for just 9 months

• Brazil heads to a runoff presidential election as neither major candidate crosses the 50% threshold to win outright

• Haiti gas protests expand, targeting US-based multinational oil companies

• UN representatives and warring parties fail to extend a ceasefire in Yemen, raising fears of a reignited civil war

• The Cuban people pass a groundbreaking civil rights referendum, reforming the country's dated national Families Code