National elections in Senegal on July 31st have yielded intense controversy. Both the incumbent government and the opposition claimed victory in a closely fraught political battle, though pressure lies heavy on the shoulders of current president Macky Sall, who remains intent on running for a third term in office despite
Amidst rising tensions between Russia and the West, two British men, Aiden Aislin (28) and Shaun Pinner (48) have been sentenced to death by a court in the self-proclaimed and unrecognised ‘Donetsk People’s Republic’ in Eastern Ukraine. Donetsk has been at the epicentre of the rapidly escalating conflict between Putin’s
The June 2022 NATO summit in Madrid was “not the deadline” for Turkey to give the green light to Sweden and Finland’s entrance into the coalition, says Turkish Presidential Spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin. Though Sweden and Finland applied to join NATO shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Turkey has remained
The biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) came to a close on Saturday 25 June 2022 after five days in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali. Under the theme ‘Delivering a Common Future: Connecting, Innovating, Transforming,’ the 26th Meeting of the Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Nations included four forums
