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Tanzania’s extractive sector faces mixed prospects

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TANZANIA

Renewed momentum for these projects is being viewed positively by investors, many of whom are still struggling with the slow bureaucracy and resource nationalism of President John…

Hong Kong's unelected leader still needs elite support

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HONG KONG

The incumbent, Carrie Lam, announced earlier this month that she would not run for re-election. Four days later, her chief secretary, John Lee, resigned and revealed that he would…

Tanzania’s general election ushers in one-party state

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TANZANIA

His ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party also secured a large majority in the National Assembly. Although CCM’s win was no surprise, the huge margins of victory across all…

Abortion unlikely to be a central issue in US midterms

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UNITED STATES

Democrats have been counting on the Court’s decision, handed down in June but leaked in February, to help galvanise the party’s support base. However, household economic concerns…

Political infighting in Ukraine is muted by war

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UKRAINE

The attacks, the first in some weeks, highlighted Kyiv's vulnerability as the seat of power. President Volodymyr Zelensky has argued with Kyiv's mayor over emergency measures and…

Legal battles and divisions weaken Senegal opposition

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SENEGAL

A web of legal cases surrounding key opposition figures, as well as rejections of several opposition candidate lists, has turned the pre-election period into a multi-front…

Museveni’s return poses challenges to EU-Africa treaty

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AFRICA/EU

However, his triumph also highlights the serious challenges that face a new EU-Africa trade and development treaty due to come onstream in late 2021 in relation to its trade, aid…

Next New York mayor will be powerful but constrained

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UNITED STATES

The city's next mayor must get office workers back into New York to protect its commercial tax base. Polling day for the Democratic primary, which will in effect choose the mayor…

South Sudan's politics constrains the economic outlook

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SOUTH SUDAN

In practice, politics remains mired in factional corruption, and the economy is stagnant. Poverty and food insecurity levels are alarmingly high, and other human development…

South Sudan faces integration and elections dilemmas

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SOUTH SUDAN

This has been compounded by a major split within First Vice-President Riek Machar’s Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-in Opposition (SPLM-IO), which has redrawn the political map.