The Briefing Room: M23's Internal Schism, Serbia's Vucic Resigns, Pakistan-Afghanistan Raids Kill Dozens.
Rwanda's proxy war in Congo is fracturing from within, Vucic is engineering a third term as premier, and the Taliban is now accusing Pakistan of the militancy it has long been charged with.
Simon Whistler • October 2, 2026
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Welcome back to the briefing room the weekly show that gives you a break from the dark depressing global headlines to tell you about dark depressing things that didn't make the headlines this week we're starting things off in the congo where an internal power struggle within the rebel group m23 threatens to create a much larger schism with m23's main
International sponsor then we'll be shifting focus to serbia where term limited former president alexander vucic has decided that it's time to put all his political stock into a run for the premiership finally it'll be off to the afghanistan pakistan border where afghanistan's ruling taliban government has decided to level a very interesting allegation after
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