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Read our cross-border investigation into Congo's mostly Romanian mercenary outfit. Marked by untrained recruits & avoidable deaths, the deployment ended in chaos in late January after the M23 captured Goma. “It was a circus,” says one ex-merc. theguardian.com/global-develop…

Memo to Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk: Why Romania matters and how one candidate wants to save it from the cynicism and despair that Putin's agents happily exploit. Interview with Bucharest mayor Nicușor Dan by Andrei Popoviciu and me politico.eu/article/romani…

Tristan Tate is far less well known than his notorious elder sibling, Andrew. But today Tristan’s central role in the brothers’ alleged criminality can be revealed for the first time. Alexi Mostrous | Andrei Popoviciu | @Phoebe_ivy Read more: bit.ly/4cYs6FZ

Happy to have contributed to this story for the first digital edition of The Observer !

Francis visited the continent five times over the course of 12 years, often wading into its most intractable conflicts .Andrei Popoviciu was in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains and witnessed this scene:

What did Nicușor Dan’s 9-year old daughter tell him when he said he would run for President of #Romania? Find out in this POLITICOEurope portrait of the common sense candidate who bucked the trend of populism. Tim Ross @timross1.bsky.social Andrei Popoviciu politico.eu/article/nicuso…

🎙️After Europe's 'Super Sunday' of elections, tune into this episode of #PolicyVoices with former Romanian prime minister Dacian Cioloş, journalist Andrei Popoviciu and political analysist MariaLuisaMoreira.bsky.social to discuss the elections' outcomes. 👇Listen here tinyurl.com/mryzmcpt

🇲🇩🇪🇺Honored to join the Friends of Europe public session on rebuilding trust in a polarised society. In a time of uncertainty, it's more important than ever to connect, reflect, and act together for the future of our democracies. #EYL40

‘The worst we’ve ever seen’: Cholera wards buckle as South Sudan races to contain deadly outbreak The country’s epidemic, which began last October, has spiralled out of control and has already claimed more than 1,000 lives Andrei Popoviciu reports telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

Read our dispatch from a cholera ward in South Sudan, where a cholera epidemic is spiraling out of control as NGOs and aid organizations are cutting funds in a country that depends on them more than any other. With photos by Guy Peterson

In late January I went to Syria to report on what happened to the tens of thousands of children of detainees that disappeared in the bowels of Assad’s prisons. For Foreign Policy I wrote about what I found. With photos by Alexandra Corcode: foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/03/syr…

NEW: As extremist parties edge closer to power across Europe, states mull bans and disqualifications. Yet such measures risk undermining democracy as they seek to protect it, argues Andrei Popoviciu for New Lines Magazine. newlinesmag.com/argument/the-d…

For New Lines Magazine I wrote about a growing use of political bans to protect democracies and whether they might actually do more to damage it with examples from Romania, France and Germany

With Syria’s caretaker government slow to investigate the disappearance of potentially thousands of children, crucial evidence may be lost or destroyed—along with any trace of those still missing, Andrei Popoviciu writes. foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/03/syr…

Sudan’s war is now the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis—14M displaced, famine, war crimes committed with impunity. Guy Peterson and I reported from the Nuba Mountains, where a rebel group recently allied with the genocidal RSF. Our first dispatch thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature/2…

In Sudan, Guy Peterson and I attended a wedding that almost didn’t happen. A year ago, famine and war pushed this community to the brink. Thanks to their community, they made it happen. Our story for The Christian Science Monitor: csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2…

“If it wasn’t for the famine, this would’ve been the biggest wedding...” In #Sudan, a bride and her village celebrate love in a time of war. By Andrei Popoviciu w/ photographs by Guy Peterson via The Christian Science Monitor csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2…