December 13, 2024
Puerto Rico, a current territory of the United States, is once again at a crossroads regarding its political future. This issue was a central focus of the 2024 gubernatorial elections, with the island’s main political parties offering competing visions for its relationship with the United States (PR51st, 2024). The New Progressive Party (PNP), led by […]
November 22, 2024
For decades Sri Lanka faced a deadly civil in the Northern part of the country. The ethnic Tamil minority make up 12% of the 22 million Sri Lankans, started a movement for an “independent ethnic state.” By 2009, when the war proceeded to end, an estimated 40,000 individuals lost their lives (Al Jazeera). With the […]
October 7, 2024
On Saturday, September 21st, 2024, the South Asian nation of Sri Lanka voted in its tenth annual presidential election (Reuters). This was the first election for the island since the insufficiency of foreign currency pushed Sri Lanka into an unprecedented economic crisis in decades (Reuters). Sri Lanka’s crippling economy came after they defaulted on their […]
April 14, 2023
On February 28th, 2023, three days after the Nigerian Presidential elections started, Bola Tinubu from the All Progressives Congress Party was declared the winner (AJLabs. 2023, March 1). Even though the former governor of Lagos, Nigeria’s economic capital, beat Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party by over a million votes, there are claims of […]
