Day: July 29, 2021

Violence Escalates In Beita, Occupied West Bank

In the flashpoint village of Beita in the occupied West Bank, hundreds of Palestinians gathered to protest an illegal Israeli military camp nearby. The humanitarian organization, the Palestine Red Crescent Society, has stated that over 320 Palestinians have been injured in protests against the illegal Israeli settlement outpost of Givat

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Power In Haiti Post-Assassination

On 7 July President Jovenel Moïse of Haiti was assassinated. His assailants? A group of Colombians, some of which were former members of the country’s armed forces and Haitian Americans. These assailants claimed that they did not intend to kill the president but only arrest him, and hired two translators,

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Ethiopia’s Tigray Conflict Expands Into Neighbouring Afar Region

In a territorial expansion of the violent conflict between the regional Tigrayan government and the official government of Ethiopia, the forces of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) party have initiated attacks in the neighbouring Afar region. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government issued a one-sided ceasefire and exited Tigray’s

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Rhetoric And Instability In Tigray

The Tigrayan conflict in Ethiopia has slipped in and out of the main news cycle for the past year. Past weeks have seen a sharp increase in aggressive and demonizing rhetoric from both sides, risking the escalation of the conflict and raising worries of a full-blown ethnic conflict.  Before exploring

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North Stream 2: Towards The Full Germanization Of The E.U.

On July 21, Germany and the United States announced that they had reached an agreement on Nord Stream 2. To avoid criticism and get out of the stalemate, the agreement between Merkel and Biden established a new partnership between Berlin and Washington on climate change and energy, which aims at

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28 Kidnapped Nigerian Students Have Been Released

Earlier this month 121 students were kidnapped from the Bethel Baptist High School in northern Nigeria. The children were in school to do sitting exams and were sleeping in their dorm when they were kidnapped by armed men. The armed men asked for food and a ransom in exchange for

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