The Travel Risk & Incident Prevention (TRIP) Group this week announced the appointment of Sue Williams QPM to their expert advisory board. Sue is an experienced and internationally renowned hostage negotiator and as a senior London detective, she was the Officer in Charge of both the Kidnap and the Hostage Crisis Negotiation Units at Scotland Yard. …
Russia Alexei Navalny’s arrest has galvanized dissent action against the Putin Administration. With anti-corruption and “Free Navalny” protests in all eleven time zones, these protests have been further exacerbated by the release of a now-viral documentary “Palace for Putin, The History of the Largest Bribe” produced by Navalny’s company and freely available on YouTube. Over …
Somalia Somali President, Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo, has cancelled elections as his term is coming to an end with no indication of when, and if it will be reorganised. In the wake of this, extreme ideologies and politics have worsened leading to a sharp rise in influence for the Islamic fundamentalist group Al-Shabaab who are regaining …
Spotlight on Lebanon Lebanon in recent times has been pushed further back in the national discussion, or neglected entirely. But the significance of Lebanon, in acting as a microcosm of the complex politics of the Middle-East, needs to be addressed. Currently, Lebanon is dealing with civil unrest stemming from rampant corruption, hyperinflation, as well as …
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