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NEW ITALY-TUNISIA MIGRANT DEAL BRINGS RELIEF TO SOME

By Katelin van Zyl On Friday, 20 October, Italy signed a deal during a visit to Tunis to hire some 4,000 Tunisian workers every year....

AVERTING WAR THROUGH LESSONS LEARNT FROM CURRENT CONFLICTS

By Donnelly McCleland The ongoing Ukraine-Russia war and the recent Israel-Gaza conflict have heightened concerns in other volatile regions and historical conflict zones in the...

THE CHURCH IS ENCOURAGED TO INVEST IN DISASTER PREPAREDNESS

By Katelin van Zyl On Sunday, 15 October, another earthquake of 6.3 magnitude (and 6.3km depth) struck western Afghanistan, only a few days after a...

RESTRICTIONS ON WOMEN REMAIN KEY OBSTACLE TO TALIBAN’S GLOBAL LEGITIMACY

By Katelin van Zyl On Friday, 29 September, Russia hosted Taliban representatives in the city of Kazan to discuss regional threats and how to create...

SERBIAN ATTACK ON KOSOVO POLICE HIGHLIGHTS GROWING TENSION IN THE BALKANS

By Alex Pollock On Sunday, 24 September, 30 armed Serbs attacked a police patrol in the usually peaceful village of Banjska in northern Kosovo, killing...

THOUSANDS OF ETHNIC ARMENIANS FLEE NAGORNO-KARABAKH FEARING REPRISALS

By Donnelly McCleland As of Tuesday, 26 September, almost 20,000 (of the estimated total of 120,000) ethnic Armenians had fled Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh...

BARRIERS TO PEACE LEAVE SUDANESE STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE BUT NOT WITHOUT HOPE

By Katelin van Zyl On 25 September, the United Nations (UN) reported that the number displaced within Sudan and into neighbouring countries has risen to...

KIM JONG UN MAKES FIRST INTERNATIONAL TRIP IN NEARLY FIVE YEARS TO VISIT RUSSIA

By Alex Pollock On Wednesday 13 September, Kim Jong Un, the Supreme Leader of North Korea, met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a rare...

AMINI ANNIVERSARY EMBOLDENS THE CRY FOR CHANGE IN IRAN

By Jeremiah Goddard 16 September 2023 marked the one-year anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody after allegedly violating the mandatory headscarf law. The...

RIVAL ECONOMIC CORRIDOR LINKING INDIA TO EUROPE, VIA MIDDLE EAST, PLANNED

By Alex Pollock On Saturday, 9 September, in a sideline meeting during the G20 summit, several countries agreed to the creation of a multinational rail...