Nicaragua's Squeeze, Burkina's Blackout & Qatar's Impossible Position | The Week Ahead

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]A regime in Washington's sights, a crackdown deepening, and a country rebuilding after a war it didn't want.

[00:00:06]Here's what's happening in global news this week. In Nicaragua, Washington sanctioned two [music] of President Ortega's sons, seven gold companies, and a senior interior ministry official in a single week. Analysts are now asking openly whether Nicaragua is next in line after Venezuela and Cuba, and whether the pattern of sanctions, then isolation, then action is about to repeat itself. In Burkina Faso, the military leader who told his people to forget democracy has dissolved 118 NOS's in a single week, removing the last independent monitors from a country where the conflict is getting worse, not better. In Qatar, the Iran war has left the country caught in a conflict it wanted no part of. This week, as foreign airlines begin returning to Doha, Qatar faces a harder question. Whether its model of staying friends with everyone can survive what just happened to it in Kashmir. Last week marked one year since an extremist attack killed 26 tourists.

[00:00:58]The incident that brought India and Pakistan to the brink of war. The valley is under heavy security. Tourism is slowly returning. And India is marking the anniversary with a warning. It will strike again if it has