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On September 25, 2025, thousands of young Malagasy filled the streets of Antananarivo carrying flowers and placards demanding something their parents had never reliably possessed: running water and electricity. Within four days, President Andry Rajoelina dissolved his entire government. Within two weeks, 22 people were dead, and a movement organized almost entirely through a Facebook page had forced the most serious political crisis Madagascar had seen in over 15 years. The Gen Z Madagascar page gained 100,000 followers in just five days, its logo (a Malagasy-style straw hat borrowed from the anime "One Piece") becoming the symbol of a generation refusing to inherit their elders' failed state.
The September 19, 2025, drone strike on Al-Safiya Mosque in El Fasher, Sudan, killed over 70 worshippers during dawn prayers and represents far more than a single war crime. This attack epitomizes the systematic ethnic cleansing campaign that has transformed Sudan's civil war into what the United States officially declared genocide in January 2025. The strike demonstrates how the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are completing the genocidal project their predecessor Janjaweed militias began in Darfur twenty years ago, while the international community struggles to respond effectively to the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
Across Europe, a transformation is underway that hasn't been seen since the Cold War's end. From French hospitals receiving orders to prepare for mass military casualties to Norway restoring mountain bunkers abandoned for decades, the continent is quietly but systematically preparing for a conflict many hoped would remain unthinkable.
On September 10th, the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk dominated headlines and social media. Understandably, America's attention focused on this shocking act of political violence at Utah Valley University. But while the nation processed that tragedy, NATO and Russian forces engaged in direct combat for the first time since the Ukraine invasion began.