On the 23rd of January 2023, the BBC reported on Japan’s lowering birth rate. The country is facing a national crisis with the Prime Minister reporting that the country is on the brink of not being able to function due to an increasing elderly population and lowering number of young people to work managing infrastructures.

Kenya’s opposition has renewed quest for what it calls electoral justice, vowing it has not recognized President William Ruto’s regime. The opposition under Azimio La Umoja One Kenya Coalition has hold two public rallies in Capital Nairobi. The former prime minister and veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga is amplifying calls for an independent audit of the 2022 elections and their involvement in reconstituting the electoral commission.

A mentally ill woman was discovered in a "mummified, almost skeletal state" after lying dead for more than three years in her flat. Her last entry in her calendar read “I need help”. During the three-and-a-half years in which her body lay undisturbed, no determined attempts to establish her wellbeing were made, despite her disability benefits being stopped and her gas cut off,

India has banned a BBC Documentary about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s role in 2002 riots in Gujarat State. The documentary highlighted a report that found Modi directly responsible for the “climate of Impunity”