Writing Competition March 2025 Entry: Turkmenistan 26 Apr 2025 The 'Cult of Personality' in Turkmenistanby Mhairi Buchanan A golden statue of former President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov in Ashgabat. (Image Credit: Dan Lundberg, Flickr). A “cult of personality” is…
Writing Competition March 2025 Entry: DR Congo 26 Apr 2025 M23's Gambit: The UN’s Struggle for Peace in the DRCby Kaila Nkufo MONUSCO peacekeepers in North Kivu province in 2012. (Image Credit: MONUSCO Photos, Wikimedia Commons.) M23's escalation and the…
Writing Competition March 2025 Runner-Up 26 Apr 2025 Debrief on the Uyghur: Media Coverage vs. Current Realitiesby Archisha Gupta A 2008 protest in San Francisco calling for freedom for the Uyghurs and Tibet. (Image Credit: John Martinez Pavliga,…
Writing Competition March 2025 Competition Winner 26 Apr 202526 Apr 2025 Behind the Glittering Allure of Ghana’s Illicit Gold-Mining Industry: Examining the Dire Repercussions of ‘Galamsey’by Emily Georgiadis A 'galamsey' worker mining for gold. (Image Credit: Kawtey, Wikimedia Commons). Ghana stands…