Togo 2019
Yearbook 2019 Togo. In May, Parliament passed a contentious law stipulating that the President cannot sit for more than two five-year terms. But the amendment does not include the three periods President Faure Gnassingbé...
Category: Africa
Tanzania 2019
Yearbook 2019 Tanzania. In January, Parliament passed a legislative amendment that gave a government-appointed registrar the power to deregister political parties and sentence prisoners to unapproved civic campaigns. According to the opposition, it was...
Sudan 2019
Yearbook 2019 Sudan. Sudan underwent a political earthquake in 2019. Popular protests against increased prices of bread and fuel that shook the country at the end of 2018 continued unabated at the beginning of...
South Africa 2019
Yearbook 2019 South Africa. For several years there had been debate about introducing minimum wage in South Africa. At New Year, it came into force with 20 rand (just over SEK 13) per hour...
Somalia 2019
Yearbook 2019 Somalia. In early January, UN envoy Nicholas Haysom was ordered to leave Somalia. The South African diplomat was accused by the government of interfering with the country’s internal affairs. In a letter...
Sierra Leone 2019
Yearbook 2019 Sierra Leone. In February, President Julius Maada Bio announced a “national disaster” in an effort to address the widespread sexual violence in the country. More than 8,500 sexual and gender-based abuses were...
Seychelles 2019
Yearbook 2019 Seychelles. Like many other small island nations, Seychelles is more threatened than most countries by climate change and other environmental degradation. While tourism is the dominant industry in the country, fishing and...
Senegal 2019
For over 1000 years, the Senegal River’s bridges have been populated by Muslim people who were in contact with neighboring Arab countries. Different geographical zones in these countries make up the so-called Sahel Belt...
Sao Tome and Principe 2019
Yearbook 2019 São Tomé and Principe. In March, São Tomé and Príncipe and Nigeria signed an agreement that gives the company Total E&P Nigeria the right to prospect for oil in three sectors in...
Saint Lucia 2019
Yearbook 2019 Saint Lucia. In January, the opposition in Parliament aroused distrust of Prime Minister Allen Chastanet. The reason was, according to opposition leader Philip J. Pierre (Saint Lucia’s workers’ party), that ministers in...