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Listen on iTunes Listen on PodBean Join your host Alex Parsons, our Director of Intelligence, who is joined by Valeria Scuto, our Middle East Analyst, and Anastasia Chisholm, our Middle East Associate Analyst, to discuss the mounting political divisions threatening to disrupt Libya’s presidential elections, due to take place on Friday, 24 December. A military […]
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Listen on iTunes Listen on PodBean John Breen, Lead Analyst for Global Risk at Sibylline is joined by North America Analyst James Hannan for a discussion on global Covid-19 trends following the emergence of the Omicron variant. Their conversation unpacks prevailing endemiological trends, including Europe’s ongoing infection wave, followed by an overview of further variant
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Listen on iTunes Listen on PodBean Last week US and Ukrainian intelligence published warnings over the most recent Russian military build-up along Ukraine’s eastern border, predicting that it may be a precursor to a larger military offensive in early 2022. Increasingly heated rhetoric between Moscow, Ukraine and NATO has ramped up regional tensions in recent
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Listen on iTunes Listen on PodBean On 14 November, Remembrance Sunday, a man detonated an improvised explosive device outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital in the UK, killing himself just before the national two-minute silence. While the motive behind the attack remains uncertain at this stage, the incident was declared a terrorist incident by security services and
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Listen on iTunes Listen on PodBean Recent developments in the horn of Africa have severely threatened longer-term stability in both Ethiopia and Sudan. In Ethiopia, Tigray rebels have made gains notable against government forces, raising concerns about a potential advance on the capital Addis Ababa. While in Sudan, the 25 October coup is flailing, with
Listen on iTunes Listen on PodBean The UN’s 26th Climate Change Conference (COP26) is set to take place in Glasgow between 31 October and 12 November. With environmentalist movements like Extinction Rebellion and Greenpeace seeing it as a make-or-break summit, activist protests and direct actions are highly likely to cause significant disruption to businesses not
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Listen on iTunes Listen on PodBean This week join Eloise Scott, our Lead Analyst for the Middle East and Africa and Rhiannon Phillips, our Associate Analyst for the Middle East and North Africa to discuss the rising situation in Lebanon. In the aftermath of last week’s street violence in Beirut, Lebanon is experiencing a worrying
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Listen on iTunes Listen on PodBean The past few days have seen tensions across the Taiwan Strait rise further as Beijing and Taipei marked their respective national days. China’s air force deployed a record number of warplanes into Taiwan’s air defence identification zone (ADIZ), while Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen again defended the island as a
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Listen on iTunes Listen on PodBean This week join your host Alexander Parsons, our Senior Analyst along with Valeria Scuto our Middle East and North Africa Analyst and Anastasia Chisholm our Associate Analyst for the Middle East and North Africa to discuss the up and coming elections in Iraq. Iraq’s elections due this Sunday, 10
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Listen on iTunes Listen on PodBean Join our host Liana Semchuk, Lead Europe & Eurasia Analyst, along with Louis Cox-Brusseau and Zsofia Wolford our Europe Analysts to discuss the upcoming Bundestag election. Germany faces one of the most uncertain elections in the country’s history due to the fragmentation of votes between mainstream and smaller parties.
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