The civil war in Sudan is nearing its two year mark as former allies turned enemies, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and paramilitary group the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), continue to engage in a brutal conflict which has left Sudan, according to the UN, as “the most devastating humanitarian and
During Donald Trump’s first, and what many thought would be his last term as President, he abruptly called off a state visit to Denmark in 2019, when their Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, dismissed his offhand comment calling for the United States to buy Greenland. Now, in 2025, as his second
The war between Israel and Hezbollah was seemingly over on the 27th of November, as the US and France were able to broker a 60 day-peace between the two forces, ending the conflict which began in October last year. Yet, weeks later, the conflict is still ongoing, with both sides
Türkiye was rattled last week after two members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) carried out a terror attack outside Ankara. The attack, which killed 5 and injured 22, took place at the Turkish Aerospace Industries headquarters (TAI), a company responsible for supplying both commercial airlines as well as the
The President of Algeria, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, has been re-elected for a second term, in an election that produced a record low turnout and much criticism. Out of 45 million citizens in the country, last week’s election saw just over 5.5 million people cast a vote. Since his election after the
Over the past few weeks, around 500 people have been killed in Bangladesh amid violent protests which have resulted in Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ending her 15-year period in charge; fleeing the country to India and leaving a power vacuum where her government used to be. These protests began over
At the end of June, Bolivia experienced its shortest ever military coup. On the 26th June, the Presidential Palace in the capital of La Paz was raided by General Juan José Zúñiga at the head of the Bolivian army in an attempted coup that lasted three hours. After a relatively
Results from this year’s mammoth seven-stage general election in India will be revealed on the 4th June. Unsurprisingly, it looks all but certain that current Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, will be re-elected for a third term. Despite being a popular choice for the majority of the country since taking power
This week, Iran carried out a military strike on Israel for the first time, sending a barrage of 300 missiles and drones into Israeli borders. Tehran spent two weeks telegraphing their intentions of carrying out an attack in response to Israel killing 16 people in an air strike on an
Since late February, Haiti has seen its worst month of violence since fighting began in the Caribbean country in 2019. What originally began as a protest over assassinated President Jovenel Moise’s delay in relinquishing power has now transformed into a conflict that has triggered nationwide chaos. Violence in the last
War in Central Africa between the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the M23 rebel group, based in the country’s North Kivu region, has escalated since January. Dozens have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced in the past few weeks. Tensions in Eastern Congo are
As 2024 begins, Argentina has a new President; the effortlessly controversial Javier Milei. The former TV pundit, who has been nicknamed ‘The Madman’, won the Argentinian election last November on controversial promises to abolish the Argentinian central bank, cut social spending, dollarise the economy, and among other things, re-establish Argentina’s
Since the end of October, anti-military groups in Myanmar have had major progress in their conflict against the military, who took power and removed democracy from the country after a violent coup in 2021. This recent push has been named ‘Operation 1027’, made by three different ethnic armed groups based
Saudi Arabia is an extremely important country in the international community. Due to the incredible amount of oil present in the region, it is one of the wealthiest and most influential states in the world. However, in the last few years, the country has started to diversify its economy, given
For the first time in 55 years, a member of the Bongo family is not in charge of Gabon. The eighth coup in three years for former French colonies in Africa has seen former President Ali Bongo deposed by the military. President Bongo, who took over the Gabonese Presidency from
Since January, Israel has been split in two. The Middle Eastern country has been experiencing seven months of intense protest from citizens in opposition to the government’s recent passing of new ‘anti-democratic’ legislation. Hundreds of thousands of Israeli’s have taken to the streets in opposition to the President, Benjamin Netanyahu’s,
In the 1880s, the Argentinian Army began a campaign with one sole purpose: to subjugate the Indigenous people of the northern region of Chaco. This campaign murdered and displaced thousands. The survivors, from communities like the Qom and Moqoit, were forced to live on plantation compounds, growing cotton and other
The mainstream global media are always quick to report on incidents of terror attacks when they take place in the West. Unfortunately the same cannot be said outside of the West, as terror attacks that take place in many other regions of the world rarely make headline news. Just a
The Russian conflict in Ukraine has shifted international relations in many different ways. For one, it has seen Europe address the possibility of no longer importing gas from Russia. This would be a way for the region to oppose Russia without feeling the effect of a retaliation from President Vladimir
The war in Ukraine has dominated the majority of global media outlets over the last few weeks, and for good reason. This unprecedented conflict is the largest in Europe since World War II. However, its impact spreads much further than Europe and has even influenced China and Taiwan. The two
