Inigo Boucher

China Vs China: Rhetoric Grows More Aggressive, Yet Is Conflict Between China And Taiwan More Likely Now Trump Is President Again?

For many it is just a rumour, for others an undisputed fact: President Xi Jinping has set the unofficial date for the Chinese military invasion of Taiwan for 2027. Current U.S. Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth, was in Singapore on Saturday for the annual Shangri-La Dialogue. This annual inter-governmental security conference

Inigo Boucher June 8, 2025

Turkish Authorities Crack Down on Protests Sparked By The Arrest Of President Erdogan’s Political Rival

Days before he was to be announced as the next presidential candidate of Türkiye’s main opposition party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), the mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem İmamoğlu, was arrested on 19 March with charges of corruption, bribery, and supporting terrorism. Alongside Mayor İmamoğlu, over 100 others were arrested on

Inigo Boucher March 26, 2025

The Sudanese Army Look Close To Retaking The Capital, Yet The World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis Is Far From Over

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

Inigo Boucher February 18, 2025

How Serious Are Trump’s Threats Of Taking Greenland From Denmark?

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

Inigo Boucher January 18, 2025

War Between Israel And Hezbollah Not Yet Over Despite Ceasefire Agreement

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

Inigo Boucher December 10, 2024

Terror Attack In Ankara Triggers Turkish Retaliation In Iraq And Syria

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

Inigo Boucher November 5, 2024

Confusion Reigns As Election in Algeria Portends Future Unrest

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

Inigo Boucher September 22, 2024

Cities In Bangladesh Have Turned To Vigilantism Following The Country’s Violent Revolution

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

Inigo Boucher August 15, 2024

What Next For Bolivia After Failed Coup?

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

Inigo Boucher July 7, 2024

Indian Muslims Are Marginalised As Modi Set To Win General Election

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

Inigo Boucher June 2, 2024

Middle East On The Verge Of All-Out War As Iran Attacks Israel

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

Inigo Boucher April 21, 2024

Haiti On The Verge Of Catastrophe As Violence Plunges Nation Into Chaos

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

Inigo Boucher April 1, 2024

War Continues In The Democratic Republic Of The Congo

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

Inigo Boucher March 3, 2024

Javier Milei And Argentina’s “non-negotiable sovereignty over the Falklands”: Is Conflict With The United Kingdom Brewing?

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

Inigo Boucher January 7, 2024

Hundreds Of Thousands Displaced As Conflict Threatens To Shatter Myanmar

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

Inigo Boucher December 3, 2023

Saudi Arabia Continues Sports-Washing Campaign As World Looks Away

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

Inigo Boucher November 5, 2023

Eighth Coup in 3 years for former French colonies in Africa, as deposed President of Gabon calls on allies to “make noise”

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

Inigo Boucher September 19, 2023

How the Israeli ‘Civil War’ is effecting the lives of Palestinians, and their efforts for equality

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,

Inigo Boucher August 9, 2023

A Century Later, Court Rules Argentina Responsible For Indigenous Massacre

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

Inigo Boucher August 31, 2022

As The Weeks Go By, Afghanistan’s Terrorist Problem Continues To Get Worse

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

Inigo Boucher May 18, 2022

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