During the recent trip of Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan, to China, he met with the foreign ministers of China and Pakistan. China has announced that both Afghanistan and Pakistan have expressed their desire to enhance diplomatic relations with Beijing.

 In May 2025, Tanzanian authorities detained Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi and Ugandan lawyer Agather Atuhaire as they attempted to attend the treason trial of opposition leader Tundu Lissu in Dar es Salaam. Amnesty International appealed Tanzanian authorities to investigate the arbitrary arrest, torture, incommunicado detention, and forcible deportation of human 

 Kyrgyz President Sadyr Zhaparov signed a decree on a large-scale reorganisation in the sphere of education and science... instead of the Ministry of Education and Science, as well as the State Agency for Intellectual Property and Innovation, two separate agencies have been created: the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science, Higher Education and Innovation.

 The International Family Forum was held in Istanbul on May 22-23 with the participation of 26 countries.