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Breaking out: Is Syria’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham moving away from Jihad and Sharia law?

Articles / Due Diligence, Egypt, Extremists, Global trade, international relations, Islamic State, Jihad, Saudi Arabia, security risks, Sharia, Syria, United nations, USA / 03/2025

As Syria’s new Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) led-government tentatively explores governance away from jihad and strict Sharia law, the reactions from extremist factions have been notably severe and revealing. Sami al-'Uraydi, leader of Syria's Tanzim Hurras al-Din (sometimes referred to as Al-Qaeda in Syria), has vocally opposed any deviation from Sharia, embodying a "Sharia or [...]

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Western Sahara: unresolved claims and emerging risks

Articles / China, Conflict, Due Diligence, European Union, Geopolitics, Morocco, natural resources, North Africa, Polisario Front, risks, Russia, Sahrawi people, United nations, United States of America, Western Sahara / 02/2025

The protracted dispute over Western Sahara between Morocco and the Polisario Front comes with challenges for multinational corporations in North Africa. Despite international efforts, the conflict remains unresolved, with sporadic fighting and a stalled peace process, raising fears of renewed violence. Recent developments have made matters worse. The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) extended the

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Ethiopia’s Fractured State: The fragile path forward

Articles / Conflict, Due Diligence, Ethiopia, Geopolitics, Human rights, humanitarian, security risks, United nations, USA / 12/2024

While the world’s media has largely focused on Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict, unrest in Oromia (Central Ethiopia) and other regions reveals the scale of volatility within the country. Oromia, Ethiopia's largest region, has been the scene of ethnic tensions, driven by longstanding grievances over political sidelining, unequal resource allocation and land rights. The Oromo Liberation Army

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Safeguarding the Amazon: Which will triumph – personal profit or the planet?

Articles / climate change, deforestation, Due Diligence, environment, rainforest, the Amazon, United nations / 08/2023

At the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) regional summit in early August, representatives of the eight Amazonian countries and senior US/French officials will meet to discuss the ‘lungs of the earth’. Is there any chance that, for once, they will put the environment above personal profit? The two-day meeting (8–9 August 2023) will be hosted

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The magician’s apprentice

Articles / China, Due Diligence, new world order, Russia, Saudi oil, United nations, USA / 09/2022

Dividing lines are all around us, even when we prefer not to see them. The reality of the United Nations contradicts its name, the politicisation of migrants and refugees erects divisions in the mind just as it does in physical terms, and the rising disparity between the rich and the poor (both at individual and

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Breaking out: Is Syria’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham moving away from Jihad and Sharia law?

Western Sahara: unresolved claims and emerging risks

Ethiopia’s Fractured State: The fragile path forward

Safeguarding the Amazon: Which will triumph – personal profit or the planet?

The magician’s apprentice

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