Across
- 2. African country in the east suffering from a Rwanda-backed rebellion
- 4. Major humanitarian crisis country in 2025, focus of IRC’s Emergency Watchlist
- 6. The world’s most pressing issue, according to a 2025 Ipsos poll, after unemployment and poverty
- 8. Global issue: rising financial and political _______ (per Ipsos April 2025)
- 9. Major Asian power in a tense rivalry with the US over Taiwan and the South China Sea
- 13. African country facing ongoing civil war and humanitarian crisis in 2025
- 14. Southeast Asian nation enduring a prolonged civil war
- 15. Iranian network of nonstate proxies degraded in recent Middle East escalation
Down
- 1. Caribbean nation experiencing gang takeover and near-war conditions
- 3. Middle Eastern territory devastated by conflict after October 2023
- 4. Country where Islamist rebels toppled the Assad family’s long dictatorship
- 5. South American bloc that signed a significant trade deal with the EU in 2025
- 7. US President who began a second term in 2025, issuing many executive orders
- 10. Asian country that triggered a global rice price surge by imposing export restrictions after a drop in domestic production
- 11. European country still resisting Russian assault in 2025
- 12. Country where Al-Shabaab carried out over 120 attacks in 2024