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COVID-19 and protests will shake up US cities

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UNITED STATES

These factors are stoking the urban civil unrest that has flared across the country in the last fortnight. What had seemed a practical matter of managing COVID-19 and…

Iran’s unrest may focus on central and western cities

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IRAN

Prices increased in anticipation of renewed sanctions, with Tehran and western provinces being the worst affected

Violence is key challenge for Central America in 2019

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CENTRAL AMERICA

Violence trends in Central America.

Suspicious election fuels risk of violence in Honduras

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HONDURAS

Defeated candidate Salvador Nasralla, who was leading for much of the count, has refused to concede, alleging fraud. With protesters already on the streets, the tight election…

Prospects for US politics to end-2020

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PROSPECTS H2 2020

The election comes as the country grapples with COVID-19 and its severe economic fallout, and race and justice-based protests in many urban centres.

Zimbabwean government will try to entrench its control

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ZIMBABWE

Chamisa’s call comes amid worsening political and economic crises and rising public frustration with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the ruling ZANU-PF. Meanwhile, Mnangagwa’s…

Racial divisions will shape 2016 election outcome

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UNITED STATES

Race relations and the 2016 US election.

Rising Zimbabwean authoritarianism will dent Mnangagwa

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ZIMBABWE

A violent clampdown on the opposition and civil society groups in January and February prompted the US government to renew sanctions, while the UK government has put cooperation…

Guatemala’s Arevalo will take office but issues endure

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GUATEMALA

With options for keeping centre-left, reformist President-elect Bernardo Arevalo from office now running out, the conservative government of President Alejandro Giammattei looks…

Iran’s women’s rights movement will be contested

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IRAN

Although this remains against the law, he said police enforcement could lead to a "wide-scale negative reaction". An ongoing Iranian conversation about economic and political…