DurMUN 2020: Pre-Conference Edition

It’s been a while since DurMUN 2020, but we’re still fondly recalling the times when we were able to safely discuss groundbreaking issues of global politics, all while sitting in the same room.

If you’re hoping to come to Durham in October, or you already attend and would like to check out the work we do for DUUNS, we hope you will enjoy reading our January Pre-Conference edition of ‘The Mondial’. Our Pre-Conference edition is developed by The Mondial’s Press Team in the lead-up to each DurMUN conference and discusses the topics and events we expect to come up in the next few days.

Sources are included below each page.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24316661
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/01/world/middleeast/us-embassy-baghdad-iraq.html?auth=login-google
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-iran-twitter-pompeo-qassem-soleimani-attack-war-tweets-today-a9269221.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/07/trump-iran-suleimani-threats-retaliation https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/world/middleeast/iranian-general-qassem-soleimani-killed.html
This link includes updated information on the casualties of soldiers in retaliation attacks: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/16/politics/service-members-injured-iran-strike/index.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/yemen-war-death-toll-un-houthi-gulf-saudi-arabia-arms-a8892926.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/03/uk-us-and-france-may-be-complicit-in-yemen-war-crimes-un-report
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/04/757626227/the-latest-on-the-situation-in-yemen?t=1579006172302
https://www.rescue.org/resource/irc-emergency-watchlist-2020
https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/news-centre/news/2019/Prolonged_conflict_would_make_Yemen_poorest_country_in_world_UNDP.html

Featured article image: Fraser Moore