AKE International, the political and security risk management specialists, have released their latest “Ones to Watch”. This week it includes Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha meeting United States President Donald Trump at the White House on 3 October, and that Kyrgyzstan’s General Prosecutor’s Office filed charges against well-known MP Kanatbek Isayev alleging Isayev was planning… [Read More]

AKE International, the political and security risk management specialists, have released their latest “Ones to Watch”. This week it includes how Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will begin a three-day official visit to China and will look to mend a relationship that has become unusually strained, and on 15 September Russian-Ukrainian-Israeli blogger Aleksandr Lapshin… [Read More]

AKE International, the political and security risk management specialists, have released their latest “Ones to Watch”. This week the Myanmar government rejected a one-month ceasefire declared by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) insurgent group, and Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev has pardoned Russian-Israeli blogger Aleksandr Lapshin and ordered the release of Mehman Aliyev, director of… [Read More]

AKE International, the political and security risk management specialists, have released their latest “Ones to Watch”. This week the United States and South Korea hold the Ulchi Freedom Guardian joint drills to rehearse their responses to an attack from North Korea, and US President Donald Trump is set to announce a new military strategy for… [Read More]

AKE International, the political and security risk management specialists, have released their latest “Ones to Watch”. This week it includes Chinese troops facing off against Indian soldiers in the Himalayas and reports that the rockets used in North Korea’s recent missile tests appeared to be a Soviet-era model, most likely produced by Ukraine’s state-owned Yuzhmash…. [Read More]

AKE International, the political and security risk management specialists, have released their latest “Ones to Watch”. This week it includes how North Korea’s official news agency KCNA vowed the country will wreak revenge ‘thousands-fold’ on the United States after the UN Security Council agreed to impose tougher sanctions on the rogue regime, and the EU… [Read More]

AKE International, the political and security risk management specialists, have released their latest “Ones to Watch”. This week it includes US sanctions in Venezuela, which are expected following the controversial 30 July vote to elect a National Constituent Assembly (NCA), and how Russia have ordered the US to cut its diplomatic staff in Russia to… [Read More]

Fuel theft is becoming a booming and increasingly violent industry in Mexico. No longer an activity carried out by group of local thieves who then supply those selling gas in highways or rural areas, it has become an increasingly lucrative business in which some of the most important criminal organisations in the country are alleged to… [Read More]

Recent months have seen an escalation of the Kamwina Nsapu (KN) conflict that has devastated the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Kasai region since 2016 as President Joseph Kabila pursues a dangerous strategy of fanning violence to consolidate his power. A June report by the country’s Episcopal Conference put the number of casualties from the conflict… [Read More]

AKE International, the political and security risk management specialists, have released their latest “Ones to Watch”. This week it includes how the left-wing ELN guerrillas and the government in Colombia are scheduled to begin the third round of formal peace talks in Ecuador’s capital Quito, and how British government officials have publicly acknowledged that a… [Read More]