Understanding the rise of Boko Haram

How the militant Islamic group took hold in northern Nigeria

• 17 mins

Understanding relations between Taiwan and China

Why is Taiwanese reunification so important to China?

• 17 mins

Understanding the power that Saudi Arabia wields

How has the Saudi royal family maintained strong worldwide influence in spite of critics?

• 17 mins

Understanding South Africa’s continuing quest for equality

Why has the post-apartheid dream of a ‘Rainbow Nation’ not been easy to realise?

• 17 mins

Understanding the long history between Russia and Ukraine

What has bound Russia and Ukraine together, and what has pulled them apart?

• 17 mins

How Syria's peaceful uprising became a civil war

Lina Sinjab tells Claire Graham about the conflict in her native country

• 17 mins

Roe v Wade and abortion in America

Katty Kay explains how abortion became central to American politics

• 17 mins

Cuba–United States relations

How a long, complex history between neighbours led to such an uneasy relationship

• 17 mins

Who are the Uyghurs and why are they being persecuted?

John Sudworth tells the story behind China's treatment of its Uyghur minority

• 17 mins

How Yemen has been engulfed by civil war

Nawal Al-Maghafi explains how war has caused one of the world's worst humanitarian crises

• 17 mins

Sudan’s journey from independence to revolution

Mohanad Hashim explains some of the complex history of the country he grew up in

• 17 mins

Ethiopia, Eritrea and border wars

Kalkidan Yibeltal explains the complex history between the two countries

• 17 mins

How the Good Friday Agreement helped bring peace to Northern Ireland

Denis Murray reflects on the legacy of the 1998 agreement

• 17 mins

Introducing The Explanation

On a mission to make sense of the world

• 1 min

Unspun World: Is Ukraine's counter-offensive a turning point?

Ukraine prepares a renewed offensive. Plus, what is a pangenome and how will it help us?

• 27 mins

Unspun World: Could AI outsmart humanity?

Reporting from Ukraine's battlefields. Plus, how worried should we be about AI?

• 27 mins

Unspun World: Can the US transform the world's economy?

President Biden puts America first. So will he succeed in reshaping the global economy?

• 27 mins

Unspun World: What's it like reporting on the war from inside Russia?

Steve Rosenberg on the challenges for journalists still in Russia

• 27 mins

Unspun World: Who can challenge Trump?

The race for the 2024 Republican White House nomination is about to heat up

• 27 mins

What is the Wagner Group?

The mercenary organisation's operations have extended to many nations, but who are they?

• 19 mins

Unspun World: Xi Jinping: President or emperor?

What do the growing ambitions of China's leader mean for the rest of the world?

• 27 mins

Unspun World: Is Putin's time up?

The editor of the BBC’s Russian service, Famil Ismailov, analyses Vladimir Putin's future

• 27 mins

How Lebanon’s economy collapsed

Protests, the port explosion and power cuts – what’s next for Lebanon?

• 17 mins

Haiti's gang crisis

How competing gangs are carving up Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince

• 18 mins

Unspun World: Is it time to return looted art?

What should we done with stolen treasures? Katie Razzall confronts colonialism's legacy

• 27 mins

What is a war crime?

Even war has rules, so what happens when they are broken?

• 17 mins

Who are the Rohingyas?

How the Rohingyas fled Myanmar to become the world’s largest stateless population

• 17 mins

The EU

How the European Union evolved from a six-nation club to a major global player

• 18 mins

Venezuela crisis

With more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia, how is Venezuela so poor?

• 18 mins

What is Nato?

Will Nato continue to expand?

• 18 mins