six postgraduate students from the University of Haifa and the University of the Free State met each other virtually, and held a fruitful webinar where a wide range of research topics were presented, and ideas were shared. This ranged from terrorism and drugs, to liberal democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa, organised crime and political elites in Sub-Saharan Africa, to a study on Saudi Arabia’s foreign policy and a study on China’s maritime activities around the Horn of Africa.