Starting Tuesday, March 3rd, 2021, Lebanon’s citizens stood in the streets in protest. The dissent saw the burning of tires and garbage containers on the streets of Tripoli, Lebanon’s poorest city. They were enraged by the country’s financial status, as the currency had fallen to a new low. The economic
In the early morning of February 26, 317 girls were kidnapped in the Zamfara state of northwestern Nigeria. The girls were taken by their captors from the Government Girls Secondary School in the town of Jangebe and marched into the forest at gunpoint. The kidnappers had entered Jangebe with an
In the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Sarvesh Kumar has been arrested after he was found walking towards a police station holding the severed head of his teenage daughter stating, according to a video taken by the police, that he had killed her in anger after learning about her
In a process sponsored by the United Nations (UN), Libya is set to establish a new transitional government headed by the prospective prime minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, alongside Mohamed al-Menfi as the interim president. Assuming the vote goes through parliament, the Government of National Accord (GNA) will be replaced by
Myanmar’s democratic government was toppled by its military force in a coup earlier in January, and the situation has continuously deteriorated since. The United Nations’ (UN) Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada Al-Nashif and High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet have voiced their concerns over potential violent crackdowns
Russia continues to add to their portrait of inhibitors of free speech and open and fair politics as politician, and noted Putin critic Alexei Navalny was arrested and is undergoing judicial procedures that could see him jailed for up to three and a half years. This news comes as Navalny
On Monday, March 1st, The World Trade Organization General Council gathered to discuss the possibility of states and non-governmental actors to temporarily waive patents for COVID-19 vaccines. The ambition is to expedite the transfer of technology and scientific knowledge to developing countries to advance the global production of vaccines and
