This week in Burkina Faso, 2.3 million new voters were registered for the upcoming presidential election. However, following a new law that justified the cancellation of voter registration under “force majeure,” the least secure 17.4% of the country was excluded from registration. In the same week that 417,465 Burkinabè were
On Monday, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani arrived in Qatar amid peace talks for a bilateral meeting with Qatari leaders, neglecting to include Taliban officials in the discussion. Last month, the Afghan government and Taliban agreed to reduce violence and potential power-sharing in Afghanistan. However, violence has continued since these negotiations
Unending War Against Insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin Region: What is the Way Forward? Despite its intensity, the situation in the Lake Chad Basin (LCB) is one of the least known ongoing humanitarian crises. The statistics are startling. The UN has classified 12.5 million people as being in need,
This week, protests broke out in Nigeria led by Nigerian activists and celebrities calling for an end to police brutality within the country. These demonstrations were directed towards a specific Nigerian police unit known as the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The nationwide protests were a culmination of weeks of anger
On 9 October 2020, the Iraqi government and the Kurdish Regional Government settled on an agreement regarding the return of the displaced Yazidi people to Sinjar. After nearly six years of displacement due to the atrocious genocide instigated by ISIL, the agreement will help the Yazidi people gain stability and
On Saturday 10 October, North Korea celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Workers’ Party with a major pre-dawn military parade. As usual, this parade functioned as a demonstration of North Korean military might, with tanks, jet planes, and soldiers featuring prominently. However, it was the presence of a new, previously-unknown
Chantel Kershaw was assaulted by two armed men at her farm near Johannesburg. In a separate incident, Brendin Horner, was tortured and stabbed before being strangled to death near the town of Paul Roux. A protest gathered in Senekal outside the bail hearing for the suspects in Horner’s murder, forcing
On August 31st, the government of Sudan and the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF), agreed on a peace deal. The agreement follows ten months of negotiations in Juba, South Sudan, and promises to end 17 years of fighting in the Western region of Darfur and the southern regions of South Kordofan
