Mai Linh Neefjes

As of 26 October 2025, eastern Chad is hosting around 880,000 Sudanese refugees and 330,000 Chadian returnees. Most of those displaced are children. The situation has become increasingly critical as violence in Sudan, particularly in North Darfur, continues to force people across the border. Since April 2025 alone, more than 100,000 people have arrived in Chad seeking protection. While the scale of displacement is staggering, the crisis has received relatively little international attention....

The South China Sea dispute centres on overlapping maritime and territorial claims by China and several Southeast Asian states, including the Philippines, Viet Nam, Malaysia, Brunei, and Taiwan, over a strategically vital and resource-rich body of water. Since the 1970s, competing claims to islands, reefs, and surrounding maritime zones, most notably in the Spratly and Paracel Islands, have intensified, driven by access to fisheries, hydrocarbons, and control over key sea lines of...