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Expert briefing
Publication date: 24 August 2022

President Ranil Wickremesinghe was prime minister and acting leader when he announced the restrictions. Gotabaya Rajapaksa had days earlier resigned as president in the face of…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 12 September 2024

Incumbent Ranil Wickremesinghe seeks another term, this time as an independent rather than a representative of his United National Party (UNP). A recent survey on voting…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 15 December 2021

Yameen, who lost power in 2018, was sentenced to five years in jail for money laundering in 2019. The opposition Progressive Congress Coalition (PCC), which comprises two…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 4 January 2019

Fort will be the eighth high-ranking official to resign since Macron took office in 2017. This will raise further doubts over the credibility of Macron’s presidency and reform…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 12 April 2018

Prospects for authoritarianism in Chad.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 1 November 2022

Lebanon also only has a caretaker government with restricted powers, at a time when the economy has contracted for four consecutive years. A staff-level IMF package worth USD3bn…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 26 April 2022

Colombo is seeking a bailout of up to USD4bn from the Fund to ease the foreign exchange (forex) crisis which prompted it to suspend external debt servicing earlier this month…

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