The Brief The Brief: Issue 56 8 Oct 2025 UN Conference: Here's what you may have missed Isabel Batt The UN’s 80th General Assembly was held in NYC this September. The general debate saw all 193 UN member states…
The Brief The Brief: Issue 55 24 Sep 202524 Sep 2025 Asia: "To vote for your Prime Minister, react to the message below" Gavin Southway Protests in Nepal are the latest in a series across Asia this decade. (Wikimedia Commons, CC-SA-4.0)…
The Brief The Brief: Issue Fifty-Four 2 May 2025 Africa France Out, Russia In? Burkina Faso’s Shift in Global Alliancesby Kaila Nkufo Men in the Burkinese capital Ouagadougou posing with the Russian flag. (Image Credit: Chérif Konaté, Wikimedia Commons).…
The Brief The Brief: Issue Forty-Seven 21 Oct 202426 Oct 2024 South America Brazil lifts ban on Twitterby Daniel Cramphorn Image Credit: Wikipedia Inc. (Wikimedia Commons) In August, Brazil became the first democracy to ban the social networking site Twitter, also…
The Brief the brief: issue twenty-eight 8 Nov 20228 Nov 2022 Africa Growing hunger in South Sudan, as the world’s youngest country remains gripped by worsening food shortagesby Henry Neale image credit: UK Ministry of Defence (Wikimedia Commons) The humanitarian crisis…
The Brief the brief: issue twenty-five 17 Oct 2022 Africa Hopes for democracy as former opposition leader appointed as Chad PMby Harvey Young image credit: TUBS (Wikimedia Commons) In a move that has raised hopes that Chad might transition…
The International Extravaganza summer extravaganza: issue twelve 20 Sep 202220 Sep 2022 Western Europe The Silent Skies Aboveby Aidan O’Connor image credit: Kevin Coombs (Reuters) France’s skies fell silent on Friday as air traffic control strikes brought major disruption to flights across…
The International Extravaganza the summer extravaganza: issue two 11 Jul 2022 HORN OF AFRICA Devastation in Somalia by Connor Crout image credit: GDJ (pixabay) The UN has warned that eight of the 18 regions that make up Somalia are at serious…
The Brief the brief: issue twenty-two 25 Apr 202213 May 2022 AFRICA From an icon’s son to exile in shame: former Botswana president faced with serious charges by Harvey Young image credit: davidaime (Flickr) On 21 April Ian Khama, the previous…
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