On Wednesday, January 19, Israel police has forcibly evicted a Palestinian family of 15 people from their home in Sheikh Jarrah, a controversial and predominantly Arab neighbourhood in East Jerusalem bordering the Old City and West Jerusalem. The latter is a neighbourhood situated in East Jerusalem and it has always been at the core of the Israel-Palestinian dispute. The eviction, …

As media attention has been hovering around an allegedly potential military invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops stationed in border regions, a possibly more decisive development is playing out in Kiev. Late last year, Petro Poroshenko – former Ukrainian president, oligarch and currently incumbent President Volodymyr Zelensky’s greatest competitor for next year’s presidential elections – has been charged with treason. …

The history of Western Sahara is characterized by occupation. Since the end of the 19th century, its territory has been occupied by Spain, which exploited the large fishing grounds and the phosphate and hydrocarbon finds. During the 1960s, the UN insisted on the country’s decolonization, to which Spain gave in and announced a referendum (UN General Assembly, 1974). However, the …

The Somalian President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has suspended the power of the Prime Minister Mohammed Hussein Roble to hire and fire officials, causing an escalation of internal unrest in the Horn of Africa nation. The Prime Minister, accused to have stolen lands owned by the Somali National Army and to have interfered with a Defence Ministry’s investigation, will not be …

The seven years of conflict taking place in Yemen led to the worst humanitarian crisis. Around three hundred thousands people have died, including sixty percent of them from indirect causation to the conflict. A great majority of the population is relying on international aid and assistance. However, due to the war being at its full swing, the already non sufficient …

The main topic of the week has been the celebration of 50 years of liberation war victory against Pakistan, that was a war which involved terrible atrocities against the civilian population, so much so that, to this day, certain data remain obscure regarding the actual number of victims and perpetrators, also to remain unknown are the lasting scars of the …

In these days we have witnessed the increasing of Russia’s military presence in the area next to the Eastern Ukraine border. Russia has built up several logistic centres hosting troops, armed vehicles, air forces and naval personnel. The Russian government justifies its presence at the border saying that it is part of the military exercise they are currently conducting; in …

In order to understand the recent happenings between Pakistan and Afghanistan as well as the very root of their relationship, it is mandatory to take a look and their past history, in fact, in the 1890s, the British drew a frontier between Afghanistan and their Indian Empire which came to be known as the Durand Line, keep in mind that …

In 2019, the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed received the Nobel Peace Prize and was regarded as a regional peacemaker but recently, oddly enough for a Nobel peace prize winner, he has been accused of presiding a protracted civil war that bears the hallmarks of genocide, the displaced people are countless as are the hundreds of thousands of people living …

Besides the common culture, religion and social values, Morocco and Algeria maintain a mutual mistrust, a lack of political will and essential arguments over the Sahara, since their political independence in 1956 and 1962 respectively. They have competing narratives and lack of recognition for the other side. The long disputes that activate the tensions and conflict between them is the …