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Thai, Myanmar unrest fuel Asia’s first online alliance

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ASIA

The Alliance is particularly important to the resistance movement in Myanmar, where ongoing conflict has thrust the country into isolation. Opposition forces there favour the MTA…

Iran protests not yet pointing to government collapse

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IRAN

The crackdown is part of attempts to suppress the five-week-old nationwide protests following the death of a student, Mahsa Amini. These anti-government protests have outlasted…

Russia will avoid annexing Georgian statelets

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GEORGIA

Abkhazia and South Ossetia as models for Russian-backed statelets.

Sudan’s revolution enters its most challenging phase

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SUDAN

While a huge step towards a possible democratic transition, the real challenge facing Sudan’s revolution will come in its implementation phases.

Catalan divisions deepen after Madrid talks begin

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SPAIN

The meetings yielded an investment to expand Barcelona’s El Prat airport, but they have exacerbated divisions between Catalonia’s governing pro-independence parties: the moderate…

Mozambique and Frelimo face major internal tensions

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MOZAMBIQUE

Opposition and civil society actors fear this will also create a window for Frelimo to change the constitution, certainly to subvert the district elections, and possibly to set up…

Sudan’s new government offers few new ideas

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SUDAN

The ruling party's response to the Sudan protests.

Belarus leader will emerge weaker from election win

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BELARUS

Of the four candidates left standing against Lukashenka, only Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya is making efforts to build support.

North Macedonia’s new government will follow old ways

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NORTH MACEDONIA

This revamped version of the 2017-19 government has the support of just 62 members of the 120-seat parliament. It keeps the same prime minister, Zoran Zaev of the SDSM, and the…

Jordanian stability will outface economic challenges

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JORDAN

Activists had threatened more protests if progress were not achieved by that deadline. There have been no reforms as yet and a new draft income-tax law offered for public…