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Pakistan’s Compounding Crises Push it to the Edge
Photo Credit: AlJazeera By Yan GrafStaff Writer Pakistan is spiraling toward the brink of collapse. While the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and confrontation with China continue soaking up international attention, Pakistan’s multiple existential crises have gone largely unnoticed by international observers. But it shouldn’t. Currently, simultaneous economic, political, and environmental crises combined with a renewed…
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Op-Ed: From Bad to Worse: Afghanistan’s Approaching Apocalypse
Photo Credit: U.S. National Archives & DVIDS By Yan GrafContributing Writer There is another crisis brewing in Afghanistan. Although Western media coverage of Afghanistan has declined following the complete withdrawal of U.S. troops at the end of August, that does not imply that the situation is improving. The newly reinstalled Taliban faces two related crises…
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THE LOST GIRLS OF NIGERIA’S FORBIDDEN FOREST
By Bailey Marsheck Staff Writer Earlier this month, after two and a half years of grief and uncertainty, 21 Nigerian families were reunited with their long-lost daughters. An agreement was reached with the militant Islamic terrorist organization, Boko Haram on October 16 which placed the girls into the hands of the Nigerian government for a…