Parrhesia Editorial Team

The Parrhesia Editorial Team comprises the editors, reporters and researchers who produce the sites daily news and analysis under the Parrhesia News banner.

11 articles

Map showing the Bab el-Mandeb Strait between Yemen and the Horn of Africa.

World

After Mocha: Why Bab al-Mandab Has Become the Strait to Watch

The Houthi seizure of Yemen’s strategic Red Sea port has transformed a local battlefield reversal into a test of Saudi security, global shipping and the wider regional balance around two vital energy chokepoints.

Parrhesia Editorial Team · 3d ago

Pakistan Army chief General Asim Munir in uniform, official portrait

OpinionFeature

The Generals' Economy: Growth, Dependency and the Long Cost of Military Rule in Pakistan

Pakistan's military governments often posted stronger headline growth than elected administrations. But the official record shows that the booms were repeatedly tied to exceptional external inflows, geopolitical patronage, debt restructuring and inherited capacity - while the country's deepest economic weaknesses survived. The larger cost was institutional: a political economy in which military supremacy, whether direct or exercised through civilian governments under tutelage, blurred accountability and shortened the horizon for reform.

Parrhesia Editorial Team · 16d ago

Overhead power lines cross a rural landscape beneath heavy grey skies.

PoliticsBreaking NewsFeature

The lights went out. What the Iran story does — and does not — tell us.

An unexpected Sunday-morning power-cut alert reviewed by Parrhesia raises an obvious question after reports of an Iran-linked cyberattack. There is no evidence that the local outage and the reported generator shutdown are connected.

Parrhesia Editorial Team · 23d ago

United Nations headquarters in New York on the International Day of Remembrance of and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism.

World

UN marks victims of terrorism day with new victim-led initiative on online harm

At its 21 August commemoration for victims and survivors of terrorism, the UN highlighted “Healing through Memory” and launched a victim-led initiative examining online harms and trauma-informed digital spaces.

Parrhesia Editorial Team · 23d ago

World

WHO and Peking University sign two-year health-emergency preparedness agreement

WHO and Peking University have agreed a two-year collaboration on research, training and analytical methods for health-emergency preparedness, an example of how public-health capacity is being built through academic partnerships across regions.

Parrhesia Editorial Team · 23d ago

The headquarters of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago, Chile.

World

ECLAC puts productive formalisation at the centre of its new regional economic survey

ECLAC has presented its Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2026, placing growth, productivity and persistently high informality at the centre of the region's policy debate.

Parrhesia Editorial Team · 23d ago

Women walk through a market street in Afghanistan.

World

ILO brief highlights deepening exclusion of Afghan women from the labour market

A new International Labour Organization brief says Afghanistan's post-2021 employment recovery has not kept pace with population growth and has been concentrated among men, while women remain sharply excluded from economic activity.

Parrhesia Editorial Team · 23d ago

Health workers organise medical supplies at an Ebola response facility in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

World

WHO and Africa CDC welcome allocation of 70,000 Ebola vaccine doses to DR Congo

The global Ebola vaccine stockpile has authorised an immediate initial allocation of 70,000 Ervebo doses to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for a Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak, WHO and Africa CDC say.

Parrhesia Editorial Team · 23d ago

Cargo vessels and small trading boats move through a harbour in Dubai.

World

UAE suspends trade and financial transactions with Iran after alleged missile fire

The United Arab Emirates says it has halted trade, commercial exchange and financial transactions with Iran until further notice after saying two ballistic missiles were fired towards its waters; Tehran denies launching them.

Parrhesia Editorial Team · 23d ago

AI-generated illustration of the Afghan flag flying over Kabul under a cloudy sky.

WorldParrhesia ExclusiveFeature

Five Years After August 15: Afghanistan Is More Stable Than Many Predicted — But Stability Is Not Yet Prosperity

Five years after the collapse of the Republic, Afghanistan has ended the nationwide war, consolidated territorial control, sharply reduced opium cultivation and strengthened domestic revenue collection. The record is more positive than the bleakest predictions of 2021 — but poverty, women’s exclusion, ISIS-K and an increasingly dangerous confrontation with Pakistan remain serious tests of whether the security dividend can become a durable national recovery.

Parrhesia Editorial Team · 31d ago

Editorial composite of Muhammad Ali Jinnah among Pakistan’s founding leaders, with the Pakistani flag, founding-era imagery and silhouetted military figures.

WorldParrhesia ExclusiveFeature

From Democratic Promise to Security State

How Pakistan’s defenders came to dominate the republic they were created to defend — and what that has cost the country.

Parrhesia Editorial Team · 32d ago