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Focus will turn to reinvigorating Czech economy

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CZECH REPUBLIC

The Czech response to the coronavirus pandemic.

South Africa vaccine plan will struggle to convince

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SOUTH AFRICA

President Cyril Ramaphosa's government has been criticised for tardy and inefficient vaccine procurement, as well as lack of transparency and accountability. It has recently…

German-Russian ties should survive Navalny attack

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GERMANY/RUSSIA

Leading politicians have called for the cancellation for the Nord Stream 2 (NS2) natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany, while NATO and the EU are considering fresh sanctions…

Equatorial Guinea’s Obiang will further stifle dissent

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EQUATORIAL GUINEA

While there is scepticism over the government’s figures, officially recorded deaths are low at 51. However, all sectors of the economy have been negatively impacted -- most…

Second COVID-19 wave will test Madagascar’s Rajoelina

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MADAGASCAR

However, with a second wave underway and the mining and tourism sectors -- key foreign exchange earners -- upended, he recently changed tack, authorising an immunisation programme…

Bolivia election suspension will be tolerated for now

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BOLIVIA

Leaders of former President Evo Morales’s Movimiento al Socialismo (Movement towards Socialism, MAS), which leads opinion polls, fear that the interim government will use the…

Polls will heat up Polish claim for German reparations

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POLAND

The demand might seem a populist substitution by the United Right (ZP) coalition government, because Warsaw’s rule-of-law argument with the EU denies Poland COVID-19 recovery and…

Zimbabwean government clampdown could escalate

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ZIMBABWE

This was the second major protest banned by the authorities in recent days, amid deepening public dissatisfaction with the government's handling of the economy. As fears grow…

Incumbent will likely win Maldives presidential poll

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MALDIVES

President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih of the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) aims to secure a second five-year term. The other nominees include a member of a recently formed party…

COVID-19 will have devastating impact on Ecuador

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ECUADOR

COVID-19 crisis.