News Bites
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...
NIGERIEN CHRISTIANS PRAY FOR PEACEFUL RESOLUTION TO COUP CRISIS
By Donnelly McCleland
On Sunday 10 September, French President Emmanuel Macron rejected a demand from Niger’s military rulers to withdraw its troops from the country...
SAFE EARTHQUAKE REBUILDING AND RECOVERY NEEDED IN TÜRKIYE AND SYRIA
By Katelin van Zyl
Wednesday 6 September marks seven months since the devastating series of earthquakes that killed more than 55,000 people and injured 10,000...
YEMENI TANKER FUNDRAISER DISPLAYS THAT THERE IS NO LIMIT IN A UNITED CAUSE
By Gigi Kotze
In August, according to the United Nations (UN), a "floating time bomb" oil tanker left adrift in the Red Sea was successfully...
