Less than a month after the signing of an historic peace accord in Doha between the Taliban and the U.S., hopes of lasting peace in Afghanistan are fading. The Islamist group continues to reject entreaties to negotiate a deal directly with the Afghan government. Even if they were prepared to
The Anglophone Crisis has ravaged an area of Cameroon that is home to more than 3.5 million people – approximately a seventh of the country’s population – and yet it remains one of the world’s forgotten conflicts. General strikes and protests beginning in 2016 gave way to a formal declaration
Last Monday’s disputed general election has set off protests across Guyana as opposition supporters forced road closures, shuttered businesses and clashed with police. Reuters reported that a teenager had been shot by police, and that law enforcement officials had surrounded the offices of the country’s elections commission, GECOM. The ballot
Six months after Donald Trump declared talks with the Taliban “dead,” the U.S. has reached an historic deal with the Islamist group that could see all U.S. and NATO troops leave Afghanistan by mid-2021. U.S. Special Envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban political leader Abdul Ghani Beradar signed the agreement in
Tear gas filled Santiago’s Plaza Italia last week as protesters clashed with Carabineros, the latest outbreak of violence amid months-long anti-government demonstrations. Dissidents countered the use of water cannons, rubber bullets and gas by the country’s military police with makeshift firebombs and laser pointers. More than four months after Chileans
At least forty people have been killed in a series of attacks in central Mali, an escalation of the ethnic tensions that have plagued the West African country in recent years. The worst of the violence left thirty-one people dead in the village of Ogossagou, which is largely inhabited by
Israel is pushing for the U.S. to recognise Moroccan sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara territory in exchange for the normalisation of Moroccan-Israeli relations. The proposed trilateral agreement has been under consideration since at least September 2018, when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secretly met with Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser
The United States has announced the imposition of new immigration restrictions on six countries in Asia and Africa, an expansion of the travel ban introduced in the first week of the Trump presidency. Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Eritrea, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania will be affected by the ban’s expansion, a move which
The separatist Ambazonia Governing Council (AGC) has declared Cameroon’s upcoming parliamentary and municipal elections illegal, announcing a six-day “lockdown” in the country’s West in the lead up to the 9 February poll. Preparations for the vote have been met with fierce resistance by separatists, as the AGC – which, in
Emboldened by her convincing election victory on 11 January, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen has called for “respect” from China, arguing that Beijing must accept her country’s independence. “We don’t have the need to declare ourselves an independent state, we are an independent country already,” she said in an interview with
China announced earlier this month that it was suspending visits by U.S. military ships and aircraft to Hong Kong, a reaction to a new law formalising America’s support for pro-democracy protesters in the special administrative region. The Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, which was signed by President Trump
