Around the world, incumbents faced electoral challenges. How did they fare?
In 2024 elections around the world incumbents faced stiff challenges from unsettled electorates and often lost power.
2024: The year of global elections
Billions of people around the world voted in elections across more than 60 countries this past year. The results provide an assessment of the state of electoral democracy on a global level.
Sudan’s biggest refugee camp was already struck with famine. Now it’s being shelled
The siege, blamed on the Rapid Support Forces, has sparked a new humanitarian catastrophe and marks an alarming turning point in the Darfur region, already overrun by violence.
Big dreams: He’s the founder of a leading African photobook library
Paul Ninson had an old-school, newfangled dream: a modern library devoted to photobooks showing life on the continent. He maxed out his credit cards, injured his back — and made it happen.
Car plows into crowds at German Christmas Market
German officials say a 50-year-old Saudi doctor who moved to Germany in 2006 deliberately drove his car into a crowded outdoor Christmas market Friday.
US-Backed Kurdish coalition faces uncertainty in Syria
The Kurdish coalition that controls a third of Syria and helped the US fight ISIS is facing a new reality after the ouster of Bashar al-Assad. NATO ally Turkey sees them as a threat and is demanding the dismantling of Kurdish militia (YPG). And some of…
Surfing and ceviche in Peru
December in Peru means surf and ceviche, as our reporter catches some breaks on the beaches outside Lima.
What could be Israel’s strategy?
NPR’s Scott Simon talks with Natan Sachs of the Brookings Institution about Israel’s potential long-term strategy.
People power’s unfinished work: Can Bangladesh be an exception?
The Wilson Center’s Michael Kugelman says that for many Bangladeshis, a successful youth-led mass movement has shattered a long malaise and kindled a newfound optimism about the country’s future.
Examining The Biden Administration’s International Legacy
The outgoing U.S. national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, has been a top advisor and envoy to President Biden on issues of foreign policy. He talks to NPR about his view of recent events in the Middle East, the U.S. relationship with China and the fu…
How Netanyahu survived another tumultuous year
At the start of this year Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was facing a crisis. Just a few months before, Hamas had breached Israel’s border with Gaza, killing some 1200 people in Israel on October 7th.As the year ends, Netanyahu is spending s…
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