DR DALIA GHANEM PROVIDES A FOCUS ON THE POLITICAL RIVALRY BETWEEN ALGERIA AND MOROCCO OVER THE DISPUTED TERRITORY OF WESTERN SAHARA. 

DR GHANEM IS AN ALGERIAN POLITICAL SCIENTIST AND SENIOR RESIDENT SCHOLAR AT THE CARNEGIE MIDDLE EAST CENTER. SOME OF THE OTHER ISSUES SHE IS SHEDDING LIGHT ON ARE THE GEO-POLITICS OF NATURAL RESOURCES OF THE REGION AND ALGERIA'S AND MOROCCO’S STANCE ON THE CURRENT WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE.

ALGERIA-MOROCCO DISPUTE OVER WESTERN SAHARA

JOURNALIST, WRITER AND PHOTOGRAPHER CHRISTINA NORIEGA GIVES HER ANALYSIS ON THE LATEST ON THE CIVILIANS CAUGHT UP IN VIOLENCE AT THE HANDS OF GUERRILLA GROUPS, DISSIDENTS, PARAMILITARIES AND DRUG TRAFFICKERS

COLOMBIA: CIVILIANS CAUGHT UP IN ON-GOING VIOLENCE

A FOCUS ON THE CURRENT SECURITY SITUATION IN AFGHANISTAN SINCE THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE ALLIED FORCES IN AUGUST 2021 WITH JOURNALIST, AUTHOR AND WAR CORRESPONDENT, LYNNE O'DONNELL. 

POINTS OF DISCUSSION: THE INFIGHTING FOR POWER AND SUPREMACY AMONG TALIBAN FACTIONS, THEIR TRANSNATIONAL JIHADIST AMBITIONS, INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY'S COMPLIANCE WITH THE TALIBAN WHEN THEY ARE NOT YET RECOGNISED AS A LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT AND THEIR LONGSTANDING CORDIAL RELATIONS WITH IRAN AND CHINA.

AFGHANISTAN'S VOLATILE SECURITY

SARAH LEAH WHITSON, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF DAWN, TAKES A LOOK AT ISRAEL'S CURRENT INTERNAL POLITICAL TURMOIL AND LINKS TO THE CYCLE OF VIOLENCE THAT EBBS AND FLOWS IN THIS REGION.

AMONG A NUMBER OF CONTENTIOUS PROPOSALS DRIVING THE POLITICAL DISCONTENT IS ISRAEL GOVERNMENT'S PLANS TO OVERHAUL ITS SUPREME COURT RULING AND GIVE POLITICIANS THE POWER TO APPOINT JUSTICES TO ITS BENCH.

ISRAEL'S POLITICAL TURMOIL

THE POWER STRUGGLE IN SUDAN BETWEEN ITS GENERALS, ABDEL FATTAH AL-BURHAN AND MOHAMMED HAMDAN DAGALO, HAS ONCE AGAIN BROUGHT THE COUNTRY TO THE BRINK. AS THEY VIE TO HOLD ON TO THE REIGNS OF POWER THE HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY IS RAPIDLY DETERIORATING AS A RESULT OF THEIR FIGHTING. SUDANESE JOURNALIST OLA DIAB AND EAST AFRICA ANALYST SARA LINNOINEN PROVIDE VALUABLE INSIGHT INTO THIS UNFOLDING CRISIS.

SUDAN'S POWER STRUGGLE

A FOCUS ON THE EFFORTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT 
WITH JOURNALIST AND REPORTER FOR THE INTERCEPT, ALICE SPERI. 

SHE DISCUSSES THE ISSUES OF BRINGING ALLEGED PERPETRATORS OF WAR CRIMES, CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY AND GENOCIDE TO ACCOUNT IN THE CONTEXT OF:
THE UKRAINE-RUSSIA WAR
THE ONGOING CRISIS IN AFGHANISTAN AND 
THE PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI CONFLICT

PHOTO CREDIT: OSEVENO

ICC'S SUCCESSES AND LIMITS

An analysis on the latest military coups in Gabon and Niger.

BBC journalist Beverly Ochieng unpicks the many layers of the events including the implications on Gabon's natural resources and its links to France as well as Niger's military leaders leaning towards Russia and the growing influence of its Wagner mercenary group.

GABON AND NIGER COUPS IN FOCUS

Afghan journalist, Zahra Nader provides a focus on the consequences for women journalists in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover of the country two years on. She gives a picture of the media in the country before the new regime swept to power, how today women journalists are exploited and what setting up of a women lead investigative newsroom, Zan Times means to her.

Photo credit: ResoluteSupportMedia, Josh Ives via Flicker

WOMEN JOURNALISTS UNDER TALIBAN RULE

ELECTIONS IN LIBYA ARE PENDING SINCE 2021. BUT THE WRANGLE TO ESTABLISH AND FOLLOW THROUGH A FRAMEWORK UNDER WHICH THEY CAN TAKE PLACE IS STILL ONGOING. RHIANNON SMITH, MANAGING DIRECTOR OF LIBYA ANALYSIS EXPLAINS SOME OF THE STUMBLING BLOCKS IN ITS WAY.

Image credit: JihadAlDakhil

LIBYA'S ELUSIVE ELECTIONS

Kiran Nazish, journalist and Founding Director of The Coalition For Women in Journalism, shines a lights on three wars and conflicts with the specific purpose of seeing how they’re affecting women journalists covering them.

The focus is on the war between Isreal and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the war between Russia and Ukraine and the violent unrest in Iran linked to protests demanding women’s freedom.

2023: A YEAR IN FOCUS FOR WOMEN JOURNALISTS

An analysis with journalist Ellery Biddle on clampdowns on digital rights when authoritarian regimes use it to silence oppositions. Listen on how internet shutdowns are affecting some wars and conflicts as well as how the nexus of tech companies and authoritarian regimes are herding political behaviour with little chance of any meaningful regulation on the horizon. 

Photo credit: Satheesh Sankaran

Digital authoritarianism

WRC18: WOMEN REPORTING ON SOME OF THE WORLD’S 18 CONFLICT AREAS. A PODCAST HIGHLIGHTING THE WORK OF WOMEN JOURNALISTS AND RESEARCHERS COVERING WARS, CONFLICTS, VIOLENCE AND UNREST

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