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By Claire Dujardin, MSc International Politics Beginning on 12 November, rockets were fired between Israel and the Gaza strip. A ceasefire was declared on 14 November but has not been followed. 34 Palestinians have been killed, including children. This attack took place after the commander of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad
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By Josh Mock, BA Arabic and Persian Life in Zimbabwe is failing to flourish amidst the country’s worst drought in years. Hundreds of animals have died while the World Food Programme believes at least 2 million people have been affected by the drought. According to Tinashe Farawo, Zimbabwe National
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By Frances Howe – Law LLB Waves of protests in La Paz, Bolivia have turned violent this month following the resignation of Evo Morales on 10 November. Evo Morales is Bolivia’s longest-serving and first Indigenous President. Morales resigned after accusations of tampering in the 2019 Bolivian General Election, where his
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By Assia Hamdi, BA Arabic and History Grime artists and representatives such as AJ Tracy, Skepta and JME felt ‘used’ by the Labour Party in 2017. But what does this mean for the upcoming elections? Grime4Corbyn was a movement initiated in 2017. It incorporates famous grime artists alongside the arsenal
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By Ludovica Longo, Politics and Geography 39 people, identified as Vietnamese nationals, were found dead in a refrigerated lorry in Grays, Essex on 23 October. Eight were women and ten were teenagers. One individual was confirmed to have gone missing from an asylum centre in the Netherlands. One month after
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By Assia Hamdi (Arabic and History) Efforts have been underway to link the US Government’s foreign aid expenditure with interests related to religious freedom. The second half of 2019 has seen the development of these agendas coalesce in various ways. From 16 -18 July, Secretary Mike Pompeo attended the
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By Chung Man Leung, MSc International Politics China’s policies in Xinjiang targeting the Uighurs have become significantly more ruthless. Since 2017, according to reports by various media sources, Chinese authorities have been systematically targeting Uighur Muslims and detaining them in ‘re-education camps’. Reports suggest that the Uighurs are being
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Josh Mock, BA Arabic and Persian The UN estimates that half of Zimbabwe’s population of 8.5 million will be food insecure by 2020. Hopes that the President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, can bring about economic renewal to the south African nation are dwindling after the country’s annual
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Will Durrant, BA History SOAS Director Valerie Amos will step down next summer to take the top spot at University College Oxford. Back in London, the search for SOAS’ next Director has already begun. Baroness Valerie Amos will leave SOAS at the end of this academic year after nearly five
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Gabriel Huland, PhD Media Studies At the end of April, the Brazilian government announced it would freeze 30% of the 2019 national universities budget as part of an austerity plan to reduce public spending. The cuts totalise BRL2 billion (U$500 million) and will affect discretionary spending in all 63
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Yasmin Elsouda, BA International Relations Once again the possibility of strike action, as a result of One Professional Services (OPS) restructuring, emerges. On 11 February, the SOAS branch of UNISON published the results of its consultative Ballot on strike action “in the event of compulsory redundancies resulting from the One
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Arooj Sultan, BA Economics & Politics The role of a Black Student’s Officer is now in the process of being created after the motion petitioning for it passed in the UGM on the 27 February. The petitioners rationale behind the motion was that at present there is a lack