‘Massacres are carried out during night hours when no-one is there to witness them.’  Full morgues were described by Tanzanian doctors following the country’s elections at the end of October . When President Samia Suluhu Hassan came to power in 2021 following the death of her predecessor, John Magufuli, she was hailed  for her easing of political repression, and seemed to be a key cog in a journey back to full democracy in Tanzania. Yet here we are, four years later, and she

Nepal has one of the highest social media usages per capita in South Asia, so when the government announced its plans to ban 26 social media platforms including X and Facebook, the nation erupted. Primarily youth protesters flooded the streets to vent their anger. After two days of political unrest and smoke-filled cities, a new interim Prime Minister was elected to serve at the hands of the people. Many are hopeful for change, but the unrest will merely be redoubled if prote

It was supposed to be a morning of celebration on their most holy of days. Instead, it became the epicentre of the day that antisemitism...

The assassination in Utah  of the Christian Conservative influencer, Charlie Kirk, has cast a chilling shadow over many in the United...

On Saturday 13 th  September, thousands flocked to the UK’s capital for the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally. The rally was organised and led by...

Over the weekend, upwards of a hundred thousand people took to the streets for the so-called Unite the Kingdom  march, a protest that has...

In the UK today, something of an authoritarian turn in the government has been observed. According to Civicus Monitor, as of December...

The imprisonment of Evghenia Guțul, the governor of Moldova’s autonomous Gagauzia region, has ignited new tensions in a country firmly at...

It commenced with tanks, waving soldiers, and passionate protests as Trump sat rather glumly, watching his military parade thrown...

Illustration by Will Allen/Europinion Argentina’s President, Javier Milei, was elected in December 2023 amid a period of severe economic...

In 2023, Argentinians voted for the nuclear option that had emerged in the face of dissatisfaction with traditional political forces....

Housing prices in Europe have increased exponentially in recent years. According to Eurostat data , prices and rents have respectively...

The media's hyperfocus on only the most marketable wars and crisis hotspots worldwide always fades certain international events into the...

Following the implementation of ‘safe access zones’ spanning 150-metres around abortion clinics, England and Wales are thought to be...

Georgia is experiencing significant political unrest following the government's decision to suspend European Union (EU) accession talks...

The UK’s national elections in July stood as a largely muted continuation of the country’s amicable political process. Power was...

Such is the inability of the anti-monarchist campaign group ‘Republic’ to understand data, or the United Kingdom’s constitution, that last week the group’s CEO, Graham Smith, stated in the Guardian that ‘A British Republic is inevitable’ . It is in fact not inevitable, nor, as Smith argues, would it be beneficial. For too long, the debate over the monarchy has been trivialised, often with discourses around the tourism sector dominating. It is naïve to think  tourism income is

Elected in 2017, President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana stated that he was prepared to put his presidency ‘on the line’  to fight Galamsey,...

“The right to protest is a fundamental principle of our democracy, but this is not absolute .” These were the words with which then prime...

Is a protest more important than attending an appointment to treat aggressive cancer? Is any cause, even with a reasonable...