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Introduction: In the past weeks, the war in Sudan intensified as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) captured the city of El-Fasher in the Darfur region, leading to violences against the civilian population. Reports mentioned mass killings, executions and looting in the city. The conflict started in 2018, when a popular revolution led in 2019 to the fall of Omar El-Bechir who had been ruling over the country since 1989. A transition was then mapped between a military council and a

Introduction: After fourteen years, the Republic of Ireland has a new President. On October 24 th , 2025, voters across the country went to the polling stations, with a majority, 63.4%, voting for independent candidate Catherine Connolly, who will be formally inaugurated on November 11 th . However, the biggest stories that emerged in the fallout of the election were not necessarily who the victor was, but the low voter turnout of 46%, and even more worrying, the record numbe

October 28, smoke rises above the rooftops, bodies lie on the pavement, helicopters fly low over Alemão and Penha neighborhoods in northern Rio de Janeiro. This was the panorama after the deadliest police operation, Operation Contenção, against the criminal organization Comando Vermelho that for a long time has controlled parts of Rio. This is the news that recently brought the world’s attention to Brazil, it not only is evidence of deep internal security concerns but also pa

Vice Presidents have remarkable latitude when it comes to foreign policy. In the United States, they are the principle diplomat and the highest ranking official to meet with and persuade other foreign leaders to come around on the American agenda. The power of a vice president was something that Dick Cheney understood very well while leading the 2000 Republican Vice President Search for George W. Bush. With his own deep resume of Wyoming’s congressman, White House Chief of St

“ Ladies and gentlemen, Japan is back .” In a 2013 address to the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C., the late former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declared as much. He refuted the paper published by 5 writers including Joseph Nye, to investigate whether Japan would end up becoming a Tier-two nation. Abe made a pledge that Japan will come back as a leader in the Indo-Pacific region and “Abeconomic” will prevail. 12 years count on, the then

Pakistan and the Taliban has had relatively good relations for years. Pakistan has since Taliban came back to power in 2021 assumed that Taliban would ultimately act as a counterbalance against India. Even before Taliban returned to power, Taliban still had influence in Southern Afghanistan, and Pakistan needed to make sure that that Taliban would not be supporting and exporting terror groups from Afghanistan to Pakistan, notably Pakistani Taliban or (TTP). Who has waged a vi

Traditional great powers such as the United Kingdom and France dropped a bombshell by formally recognising Palestine , a move soon followed by announcements from Australia, Canada, and Portugal in September, “to keep alive the possibility of peace and a two-state solution”, as said by the UK’s PM Keir Starmer in a video statement on X. Similarly, some called the move a hypocrisy  while comparing it to the struggle of Taiwan (ROC). This short article will examine the recogniti

In mid-October 2025, Washington and Buenos Aires announced a financial decision in which President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent approved a $20 billion currency swap with Argentina’s central bank, along with an additional $20 billion expected to come from private lenders. The official goal is to “stabilize Argentina’s volatile peso” and “help the country embrace economic freedom.” The deal comes at a very opportune moment — just days before Argentina’s Oct

I recently travelled back to the US to visit family and the county in Maryland where I spent the majority of my life is fairly rural. The county has developed significantly due to its proximity to Washington, D.C., but my family home is still surrounded by family farms. Some of the nearby homes have enough property to grow their own vegetable gardens, another farm was recently converted into cultivating hemp, but the majority of the farms rotate corn, wheat, and soybeans. Whe

Introduction Europe is building a wall. Not made of concrete, but with code, signals and radar. What began as a suggestion from Lithuania, has evolved into one of the European Union’s largest and most complex defense projects, a ‘Drone wall’ stretching from the Baltics down to the Black Sea.  The ‘Drone Wall’, formally known as the European Drone Defense Initiative is part of the EU's broader Defense Readiness Roadmap 2030, and has been announced in response to the rising num

What’s happening in Madagascar? After the 2009 coup, Madagascar is once again facing political instability, as the Malgache parliament voted to depose President Andry Rajoelina. The coup occurred after a long period of contestation of the power in place, mainly led by the Madagascar youth. Starting as a protest against water and electricity shortages, the movement is now denouncing corruption and bad governance as the government remains inactive. The movement has been cracked

In the past month, Mali faced a higher number of attacks on critical trade routes across the southern regions of the country. Roads leading to the capital have been targeted by the radical Islamist group Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), active in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. The group claimed to blockade the Bamako-Dakar corridor, in order to stop shipments of fuel and goods to the capital and other cities in Mali. Multiple truck drivers have been abducted, and e

October 2025 is proving to be an important electoral month across the continent of Europe. The people of Ireland, Portugal, Estonia, the Netherlands, Georgia, and Northern Cyprus are all going to the polls this month to carry out their civic duty. However, this article will focus on one with particularly significant implications for the European political landscape, the Czech parliamentary elections. The Czech Republic has just held a parliamentary election between October 3

The conflict between Israel and Hamas remains one of the most destabilizing conflicts in the Middle East in over a decade. Following the attacks on October 7 th , 2023, by Hamas, which resulted in the deaths of over 1200 Israelis as well as the abduction of more than 200 hostages, the Israeli government began a full-scale military campaign in the Gaza Strip. Since then, the conflict has resulted in massive destruction. Tens of thousands of Palestinians casualties, the displac

Japan is set to hold a prime ministerial vote on the 20th, to determine if Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)’s leader Sanae Takaichi is to be the country’s first female prime minister. Even as this piece is being written, reports indicate that the Komeito Party (KM) has announced its 25-year coalition with LDP. With its 24 seats, Komeito has declared it will not back Takaichi, leaving the ruling party to rely on its own 196 votes. Still, with opposition groups—the Constitutional

The United States is no stranger when it comes to meddling in its backyard of Latin America. The Trump Administration is pivoting in a new direction when it comes to policing drug trafficking. It is important to state that there is an entire government department dedicated to enforcement when it comes to drug trafficking, which is called the Drug Enforcement Administration, or the DEA. This department has always taken the lead on investigating drug-related crimes since it was