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Delayed polls may increase Guinea-Bissau instability

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GUINEA-BISSAU

Several political parties, including some aligned with President Jose Mario Vaz, recently organised demonstrations calling for the cancellation of the haphazard voter registration…

Taliban may be coaxed back into Afghan talks

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AFGHANISTAN

Talks are integral to US disengagement plans but look uncertain now that the Taliban say they will not attend. Insurgent leaders are divided: some say President Joe Biden's…

Polarisation raises Venezuela violence, default risks

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VENEZUELA

The Assembly meeting followed the suspension on October 20 of the signature collection process required for initiating a recall referendum against Maduro that was due to take…

Hezbollah’s Lebanon role may block Saudi military aid

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LEBANON/SAUDI ARABIA

These reports follow the visit of the new Lebanese president, Michel Aoun, who made the first foreign trip of his presidency to Saudi Arabia and Qatar on January 9-11…

African elections face contrasting COVID-19 challenges

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AFRICA

There is international precedent for this, after the United Kingdom postponed its local elections. However, although Chad and Ethiopia have delayed their polls, no other…

Mozambique faces difficult days ahead

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MOZAMBIQUE

Beyond the major security and humanitarian concerns this is generating, it has also worried investors who were already hesitant about supporting the restart of liquefied natural…

Somaliland’s Las Anod crisis defies easy resolution

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SOMALIA

Las Anod clan leaders declared in February they no longer recognise the sovereignty of Somaliland, which unilaterally declared independence from Somalia in 1991, and wish the…

Internal disarray may create explosive Congo elections

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CONGO-KINSHASA

However, despite their public unity and insistence that they are ready for elections, the opposition leaders only repeated their vow to appoint a single opposition candidate…

COVID-19 may prompt more Malawian election controversy

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MALAWI

Malawi election controversies.

Ethiopia-Somaliland port deal may spur chain reaction

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ETHIOPIA/SOMALIA

The deal has angered Somalia, which still claims sovereignty over Somaliland, and has triggered reactions that could aggravate already volatile geopolitics in the Horn of Africa.