Ethiopia on the Brink. And More.

Welcome to The Briefing Room, the weekly show where we scour the globe for conflict stories so obscure you didn't even know you needed to be worried about them. I'm Simon, and this week we're looking at a country most regular folk probably don't even know is in the grips of an insurgency.

We're talking about Thailand, where a series of coordinated attacks recently revealed the scale of the problem facing Bangkok.

Alongside that, we're also checking in on Mali, where enormous sums of money have recently been paid to terror groups and insurgents to free hostages from Russia and America. It will be discussing how these ransom payments are likely to mean bigger attacks down the line.