Author: Leon Havana

Bougainville independence is finally back in the Papua New Guinea Parliament, although MPs have not yet actually voted on whether the island should become a […]

Two tourists were shot during the Baliem Valley Festival in West Papua on August 8, in an attack that brought the region’s most important cultural […]

Nicaragua cancelling elections has been presented in much of the international media as another example of a revolutionary government abandoning democracy. The image created is […]

Germany’s political class spent years pretending that the costs of mass migration were imaginary, or at least too impolite to mention. That lie has finally […]

The visit by Xi Jinping to Pyongyang inside DPRK did not behave like a turning point and was not framed internally as one. There was […]

Bougainville has been here before in one form or another: promised timelines, political frameworks, carefully worded commitments that suggest movement without ever fully guaranteeing arrival. […]

In case you missed it, the foreign minister of Singapore, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, has just completed a two day meeting in Pyongyang with North Korean […]

Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 was launched as a sweeping attempt to fundamentally restructure the kingdom’s economy away from oil dependency. It was presented as a […]

While often described as the last truly Marxist state, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has in reality undergone a slow but very visible economic […]

The 24th Pyongyang Spring Trade Fair has concluded in Pyongyang. The event, the first to include large foreign delegations, took place between May 3rd–8th and […]