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Government reshuffle in Bangui to confirm Moscow’s growing sway

The Central African Republic's prime minister has been sacked amid tensions between pro-Russian and pro-French factions within the government in Bangui, the Central African Republic. According to a spokesman for the Presidency,…

February 10, 2022CAR, France, Russia, Wagner Group

Governance

Italy: do not change anything to change everything

In Italy, there is an old Sicilian novel (The Leopard) that marks an unwritten rule of national politics: "change everything, to not change a thing".The story of the re-election of…

February 1, 2022Italy

Governance Intelligence ops

Escalation of internal standoff within the Kremlin testifies to weakness of Moscow’s regime

Moscow’s latest foreign policy statements and their disinformation campaign observed amid the aggravation of the security situation in Europe are associated with the confrontation boiling between the key political institutional…

January 28, 2022Russia

Democracy Governance

Political Crisis in Honduras threatens new government and President’s rule

A legislative crisis threatened to derail the government. Pressure has been growing to find a way out of a political impasse that resulted in two rival congressional leadership teams. The first team…

January 28, 2022Honduras

Coup Governance

Burkina Faso: yet another military coup – a void for Russia to fill

Burkina Faso coup weakens Paris' local alliances, emboldens jihadists controlling large swathes of territory and gives the opportunity for Russia to fill the vacuum. This coup puts the French in…

January 26, 2022Burkina Faso, France, Russia

Democracy Governance

Regime in Mali wends Syria’s way

Mali's military junta puts aside democratic path of development. The military, backed by policy-makers from abroad, step up control over the government and set up authoritarian power in the region. The…

January 5, 2022Mali

Coup Estimates Governance

The possible failure of Sudanese democracy future

Sudan was plunged into further political turmoil when Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok resigned, citing his failure to ensure a peaceful transition to democracy. With his resignation, Sudan appears to have once again…

January 3, 2022Sudan

Estimates Governance

Seeking alternative interlocutors in Russia

As so-called transfer in Russia is oncoming and relations between the Kremlin and the West are strained, possibilities open up for talks with some Russian leaders, likely to seek for…

December 22, 2021Russia

Conflict Governance

Bosnian Serbs’ secession from BiH might be a part of the Kremlin-China multimove game

Russia fuels the conflict in the Balkans in order to divert attention from the situation on its border with Ukraine. The Kremlin believes that escalating the Balkan conflict and attacking…

December 15, 2021Bosnia and Herzegovina, Russia

Geopolitics Governance

France risks to lose New Caledonia to China amid ‘no’ referendum results

There are fears that renewed tensions could even spark a return of the kind of violence last seen 30 years ago, before the feuding parties reached successive deals to ensure the island group's…

December 15, 2021China, France, New Caledonia