When a Distant War Hits Home: How Global Conflict Impacts a Family

When a distant war hits home: How global conflict impacts a family

Kuala Lumpur: A war in the Middle East may feel geographically distant, but its effects are increasingly felt across households in the ASEAN region. As online discussions grow, a common realisation is emerging that when conflict disrupts global energy markets, oil prices rise, inflation follows, and daily life becomes more expensive. What begins as a geopolitical crisis quickly evolves into a tangible economic strain for the middle class, partic…

When distant wars raise the price of bread: Ghana in the shadow of a faraway conflict

How a conflict thousands of miles away quietly reshapes the Ghanaian economy, the daily lives within it A war that refuses to stay where it began WAR, we are often told, belongs to geography; to maps, to borders, to places we can point to and say, “It is happening there, not here.” Yet history has a way of humbling that illusion. In an interconnected world, conflict does not stay confined to the lands that ignite it. It travels, through oil mark…