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Yingluck's Thailand flight may prompt party reform

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THAILAND

The PTP’s comments follow Yingluck’s dramatic flight from Thailand two days before the verdict in her trial relating to her administration’s rice mortgage scheme.

Nigeria’s anti-corruption campaigns may falter

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NIGERIA

Nigeria's anti-corruption efforts.

Ruling party will win Myanmar poll but emerge weaker

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MYANMAR

Voters will be electing lawmakers for regional and state legislatures as well as parliament’s upper and lower houses. State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for…

Malawian election ruling may not end political unrest

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MALAWI

The case has been brought by runner-up Lazarus Chakwera, leader of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP), and third-place finisher former Vice-President Saulos Chilima of the United…

Guinea’s constitutional crisis may escalate further

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GUINEA

The National Front for the Defence of the Constitution (FNDC) coalition, a grouping of opposition parties and civil society groups, has vowed to continue protests until the…

Nigerian government will look to prevent more protests

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NIGERIA

However, except in a few states, these panels have been slow to start restitution processes. Their existence was recently threatened by a legal challenge -- now withdrawn -- by…

Nigeria’s independent institutions face major threats

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NIGERIA

Onnoghen was suspended by President Muhammadu Buhari in January after the chief justice's indictment over the alleged non-declaration of assets in an apparently…

Algerian army will try to guard fiefdom in transition

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ALGERIA

The military leadership has seized control of the political process, but has shown little interest in assuming formal power, often demonstrating sympathies with protesters while…

Mozambique party politics may trump national interest

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MOZAMBIQUE

There is broad consensus that security sector reform is necessary, but lingering concern that the government lacks a coherent plan, and will end up being distracted by other…

‘Imperial’ US executive will provoke Congress

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UNITED STATES

US presidential powers.