Inside Iran's Quest to Crush the Kurds. And More.

Welcome back to The Briefing Room, the weekly show that turns the spotlight on the important yet overlooked stories shaping our world.

I'm Simon, and this week, that spotlight is shining straight onto Somalia, where, apparently not content with multiple ongoing wars and insurgencies, a series of political power grabs by the beleaguered nation's leader now threaten a whole new civil war.

After that, we're motoring across the African continent Cameroon, where a 93-year-old autocrat hasn't been seen in public for over 70 days.