After leading a military coup, Yahya Jammeh ruled The Gambia from 1996 until 2017. He is now making noises about […]

Causes   Prime Minister Narendra Modi has overseen the passage of the Citizenship Act, a law that grants Indian citizenship […]

This article contains a global risk calendar in which scheduled events for 2020 are assessed for their risk of political […]

Summary   The largest public sector strike that France has seen in decades began yesterday. Hundreds of thousands of workers […]

Warnings   The UK and US governments have both issued warnings to Christmas travellers planning on visiting northern European markets […]

ISRAEL ELECTIONS   COUNTRY: Israel EVENT: Legislative elections DATE: 17 September   DETAILS Snap elections for the Knesset (the 120-seat […]

Few independent commentators doubt that climate change is already upon us, with more extreme weather events and conditions having occurred […]

The threat to journalists from authoritarian governments   Journalists have always taken risks to get stories out into the mainstream […]

Traveller Insight The FCO in London has changed its travel advice for Sri Lanka: after the bombs in Colombo on […]

Current Events and Considerations   The activity in Turkish regional politics coupled with volatile economic activity from the Turkish Lira […]