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By Chris Hoellriegl, MSc. Development Studies When international troops left Afghanistan on 30 August and the Taliban took over the last bits of the capital Kabul, the rest of the world seemed paralyzed with shock. After two decades of war and peace building efforts, many feared that the notoriously brutal
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By Viandito Pasaribu, BA Politics and International Relations Following the escape of six Palestinian inmates from an Israeli prison on September 6th, protests in solidarity with the escapees took place where spoons were seen waved alongside Palestinian flags. The kitchen utensil has become a potent emblem of resistance against the
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By Gunda Pavilonytė, BA Chinese Content warning: racial and sexual violence A Chinese whistleblower exposes guards and police officers tactics used in President Xinjiang’s re-education camps. For years, stories of arbitrary arrest, unspeakable cruelty, and mass internment camps have been surfacing surrounding Xinjiang. The province is in the far
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By Anna Fenton-Jones, BA Middle Eastern Studies Amidst a turbulent period for the House of Saud, Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman has announced sweeping reforms to the Saudi Arabian legal system. The reforms are designed to modernise the country and ease its transition away from decentralised Sharia towards a comprehensive,
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By Nour Abu-Ismail BA Korean Studies and Development On 16 June 2021, Karim Ahmad Khan will begin his nine-year term as the newly elected Chief Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Electing the third Chief Prosecutor of the ICC was both lengthy and discordant as member-states could not agree
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By Fakhriya M. Suleiman, MA Global Media and Postnational Communication After spending 1001 days in prison, the prominent Saudi Arabian women’s rights activist Loujain Al-Hathloul was released on 10 February 2021. In May 2018 Al-Hathloul was arrested along with other prominent Saudi activists, such as Iman al-Nafjan, Aziza al-Yousef
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By Charlotte Paule, MSc Politics of Asia In the early hours of 1 February 2021, the Burmese military arrested the civilian leadership of Myanmar and took power. This came after the pro-democracy party National League for Democracy (NLD), led by Aung San Suu Kyi, won by a landslide in the
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By Fakhriya M. Suleiman, MA Global Media and Postnational Communication On 5 February 2021, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) issued a communiqué stating that ‘dealing in cryptocurrencies or facilitating payments for cryptocurrency is prohibited.’ In line with this directive, the CBN ordered the immediate closure of all accounts operating
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By Adhya Moona, MA Global Media and Communications On 1 January, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appointed Melih Bulu as the new rector of Istanbul’s prestigious Bogazici University. Since then, students and faculty members have led peaceful protests against Bulu’s appointment, an academic who is a close
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By Maxine Betteridge-Moes, MA Media in Development The World Health Organization began administering Ebola vaccines in Guinea just nine days after the latest outbreak was declared in Gouécké in the far southern region on 14 February. The swift rollout of the vaccination campaign came after international calls to action to
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By Deniz Demirag, MSc Environment, Politics and Development The World Health Organization (WHO) recently launched a vaccine allocation plan with 156 countries, known as ‘Covax,’ to enable a rapid and fair global distribution of Covid-19 vaccines. 64 higher-income countries have already joined the program, ensuring the research, purchase and distribution
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By Emma Holdsworth, BA International Relations and Japanese Protests involving dozens of Tamil civilians, students, and politicians broke out in Sri Lanka following the news of a Tamil war memorial being destroyed by a bulldozer on Jaffna University Campus at 8:45pm on 8 January. The Tamil Guardian reports how