Friday, May 17, 2024
On February 1, 2021, Myanmar’s military junta seized control of the government in a military coup with General Min Aung Hlaing, the commander-in-chief of the army, in charge. Millions of people went to the streets all across the country in largely peaceful protests, wanting the previous multi-party election to go […]
In the colonial era, two of the main powers that decided to colonize Africa were Britain and France. Over several months during the Berlin Conference in 1884, they divided up Africa just by drawing lines on a map. Britain wanted a series of colonies stretching from Cape-town to Cairo, and […]
On October 2nd, almost two million Brazilians voted in the first round of the 2022 presidential elections. Tension increased in Brazil as the country increasingly split in half during the voting between the two candidates, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Jair Bolsonaro. With the far-right Bolsonaro and left-wing Lula […]
Haiti, one of the world’s poorest countries, has faced a number of recent crises that have led to Prime Minister Ariel Henry requesting international military assistance against the concerns of many people who reject the prospect of foreign intervention. Last year, Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moise, was assassinated in July. Haiti […]
If you looked at Sri Lanka, the island country off the coast of India, a few years ago, you would see a flourishing country ranked as upper middle income status, “relatively well-off by South Asian standards.” But, through measures of political mismanagement and external shocks, this country has plunged into […]