There have been a lot of very shocking and somewhat disheartening news headlines recently that make it appear as though we really are entering an increasingly grim time, with very few redeeming factors in our favour. While some of the headlines are partly accurate, there are more quiet bits of news trickling in at the […]

Country/Region: Somalia     Situation 4 Contractors injured in IED Attack     Client: Insurance     Operational Requirement: Arrangement for Admission in context of COVID-19     Situation The NGS Operations Team was notified of a mass casualty incident in Somalia involving four contractors working with an international corporate client. The patients were all […]

Situation   Following a rally held by outgoing President Donald J. Trump at the National Mall outside the White House in Washington D.C. on 6th January, protesters made their way toward Congress to voice their discontent for – what they argue – electoral fraud by the political establishment. Congress was in session to certify electoral […]

                                            Author: Jamie Thomson, Senior Risk Analyst,   Contact: For political risk analysis: risk@northcottglobalsolutions.com For security assessments and evacuation planning: security@northcottglobalsolutions.com         DISCLAIMER: NGS cannot make any accurate warnings or guarantees […]

After launching a military operation against the northern Tigray region, the Ethiopian government has increased the risk of a long-running civil conflict and has highlighted internal ethnic divisions. Not only is the government pushing the country to the brink of civil war, but it has a number of other pressing security issues to manage, which […]

The best laid schemes of mice and men always go awry. This is something that kept going through my head in 2016, two weeks before I was about to board a plane on a beautiful spring day in Johannesburg, to start my new life in London, straight into autumn, and my first real winter.   […]

Last weekend, the tense presidential election in Guinea raised some issues that are often experienced in national election campaigns across sub-Saharan Africa. President Alpha Condé ran for a controversial third term in office, having amended the national constitution to reset presidential term limits. This has led to widespread civil unrest, which has been managed violently […]

Setting up a Global Company whilst suffering PTSD   “What they don’t know is I am about to die…”   I still vividly remember the client and the meeting room.   I was sat trying to convince them of the merits of my nascent company, NGS but the room was spinning like a washing machine, their […]

Last year, the World Food Programme (WFP) was feeding approximately 100 million people on a regular basis. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of people on the brink of starvation has risen to approximately 270 million. This month, the WFP estimated that as many as 45 million people across southern Africa are […]

The Sweden Democrats Party   In recent years, Sweden has experienced a political shift right. The historically centre-left country has been tilting further conservative in the recent decade, to the point that a far-right populist party topped opinion polls in November 2019. The party in question is the Sweden Democrats, which is now the country’s […]

Historical Background   Côte d’Ivoire has experienced three periods of civil conflict in the last 20 years, all the result of disputed elections between characters still involved in Ivorian politics. President Alassane Ouattara, prime minister in the early 1990s, and president since 2010, is campaigning for a third term in office in the lead-up to […]

Incident   Overnight on Tuesday, a fire destroyed the Greek migrant camp Moria, on the island of Lesbos. The camp, which was designed to house 3,000 people when it opened five years ago, was home to 13,000 migrants at the time of the fire. Those living at the camp are now homeless, presenting both humanitarian […]