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Internally-displaced children in a migrant camp in Darfur, Sudan.

Global Affairs

War and No Peace – Sudan and Civil War

by Thomas Yates January 23, 2026January 23, 2026

ARAWA, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea (June 30, 2015) A woman waits her turn at the Pacific Partnership community health engagement in Arawa, Papua New Guinea. The hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) is in Papua New Guinea for its second mission port of PP15. Pacific Partnership is in its tenth iteration and is the largest annual multilateral humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. While training for crisis conditions, Pacific Partnership missions to date have provided real world medical care to approximately 270,000 patients and veterinary services to more than 38,000 animals. Critical infrastructure development has been supported in host nations during more than 180 engineering projects. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Greg Badger/Released)

Global Affairs

Bougainville: A Long Wait for Independence Continues

by Devika Manish Kumar May 29, 2025May 29, 2025

Global Affairs

Sri Lanka’s Political Shift: The Power of People

by Isolde Sellin March 1, 2025March 2, 2025

Global Affairs

Arab Spring – A Decade On

by Lily Shanagher December 21, 2020December 21, 2020

Scenes With Girls at the Burton Taylor Studio: Reviewed

Laurence Britton Jun 11, 2026 6 min read

“Are they safe, or dangerously codependent? Is this life, paradoxically within and without heteronormativity, sustainable? Is this real girlhood? Is this enough?” Aimee Dixon reviews…

Shell Shock at Corpus: Bernard Wins Trifecta in 2026 Tortoise Race

Thomas Yates Jun 11, 2026 3 min read

A college tortoise approaches a ring of lettuce.

Bernard the Tortoise won not once, but three times, at the 2026 Tortoise Fair at Corpus Christi. Meanwhile, there was room for humans to get…

The Exportation of British Misogyny

Jessica Gregory Jun 11, 2026 7 min read

The sound of accordion, and the sweet heavy smell of cinnamon and spices drifted pleasantly through the small winding streets, dappled with pale April sunlight.…

Spotlight – All work and no play makes an exhausted Oxford student

Jessica Gregory Jun 10, 2026 7 min read

I have now finished my long eight-day stint of shifts. In the next few days off that I have, I look forward to utilising my…