COMMENT | The things that have been happening in the international, err… world, have been quite interesting recently.

First, we had the former US president Donald Trump winning the election and beating vice-president Kamala Harris. Then, we saw South Korea going under martial law for six hours before it was lifted by the country’s National Assembly and President Yeon Suk Yeol could now be impeached.

Most recently, and what is most interesting to me, is how the rebel groups in Syria finally ousted President Bashar al-Assad (or should I say the former president) after 13 years of civil war which destroyed the country terribly.

Assad comes from an authoritarian family that has been ruling the country brutally for fifty years.

I went to Syria in 2006 to shoot a documentary. At that time...