Briefing Room 26.9.2025: Statehood Protests in India, Sahrawi Struggle Under Moroccan Expansion.

Welcome to the first ever episode of The Briefing Room, our brand new weekly show where we examine the war and geopolitical stories that have been ignored or overlooked. And it's not going to be coming from you when I'm at holiday every week in a children's bedroom. It just needs must.

Basically, it's for all of you who didn't find the Situation Room nerdy enough and watch our regular coverage of lesser known conflicts and things. You call the Carve Hotel Gardner insurgency obscure. You amateurs.

I'm Simon Whistler and this first week we're examining the impact spillover from Sudan's war has had on the Central African Republic. I told you'd be nerdy. What you expect is the stuff you pay for.