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Cambodia’s rigged election
Christine Chaumeau
, July 2018
Hun Sen, prime minister for 33 years, will win this month’s election, having suppressed the opposition. What he really wants is his family’s dynastic succession.
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The Balkans’ biggest export is people
Jean-Arnault Dérens
&
Laurent Geslin
, July 2018
Enormous numbers are migrating from the Balkans to seek work elsewhere and leaving their home countries ever more hopeless.
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The official fake news
Serge Halimi
, July 2018
Emmanuel Macron, who was comfortably elected to the presidency with the support of almost the entire French media, has demanded that his parliamentary majority provide him with a law against ‘fake news’ (...)
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DRC’s holy opposition
François Misser
, July 2018
The bells of Catholic churches across the DRC ring out every Thursday in protest at Joseph Kabila’s failure to keep his promise to step down as president. It’s the country’s last (...)
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Cappucino-gate, or the crisis of authentocracy
Outside in
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Yohann Koshy
, 23 June 2018
Why would a politician pretend to not know what a cappuccino is? It’s a question the UK left asked itself during the 2016 Labour Party leadership election after The Observer published a (...)
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July
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US
, making friends with the FBI;
Mali
falls apart,
DRC
’s holy opposition ;
Cambodia
’s rigged election;
Europe special report
, Balkans’ mass exodus; Germany’s young leave, Hungarians move west;
World Cup
, exploiting Africa’s talent;
Turkey
, at a screen near you…
Commandos sans frontières
Open Page
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Nick Turse
• FROM
TomDispatch, 17 July 2018
Early last month, at a tiny military post near the tumbledown town of Jamaame in Somalia (...)
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Mali disintegrates
Rémi Carayol
, July 2018
Mali’s general election this month looks uncertain, with rebels — partly inspired by Islamist jihadism — offering an alternative source of law and order in the central (...)
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Turkey onscreen
Timour Muhidine
, July 2018
The film and TV industry is expanding beyond its successful, globally exported, series into new genres, including the Islamic horror movie. But could their appeal abroad have reached its (...)
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Barkhane bunkers down
Philippe Leymarie
, July 2018
The African joint military force intended to police the G5 Sahel region (which is bigger than the EU) is small and underfunded.
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China’s destination of choice
Ch. Ch.
, July 2018
Blue Bay: model replica of the Chinese resort under construction in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, this March Anna Fifield · The Washington Post · Getty For Sale and For Rent signs in Chinese are prominently (...)
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Special Report : Europe’s changing populations
July 2018
Global population growth Global population growth Cécile Marin In 1900 Europe was home to one in four of the world’s population; today, despite gaining 180 million people between 1950 (...)
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A search for roots and connections
Hilary Wainwright
, 1 June 2018
The post-third-way Labour Party is trying to encourage its many new activist members, especially among the young, to turn the party into a social movement. To understand the (...)
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General Data Protection Regulation
1 June 2018
Dear reader, The rules on personal data protection changed on 25 May 2018, when the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) adopted by the European Parliament came into force (...)
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Lunch with the ruralists
Anne Vigna
, 3 May 2018
A group of wealthy agribiz owners get to make self-enriching policy affecting millions because they backed the overthrow of Dilma Rousseff. The parliamentary ‘ruralist’ group meets (...)
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China’s destination of choice
Ch. Ch.
, 28 June 2018
For Sale and For Rent signs in Chinese are prominently displayed on buildings and construction sites in Sihanoukville, a Cambodian port city on the Gulf of Thailand that has become (...)
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Global population growth
Cécile Marin, July 2018
Lure of the West
Cécile Marin, July 2018
East-west divide
Cécile Marin, July 2018
Population change by region
Cécile Marin, July 2018
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Cappucino-gate, or the crisis of authentocracy
Y. K.
, 20 July 2018
Why would a politician pretend to not know what a cappuccino is? It’s a question the UK left asked itself during the 2016 Labour Party leadership election after The Observer (...)
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What justice for coerced migrants?
Leanne Tory-Murphy
, 23 June 2018
In the by-now creased photocopy of a photograph, Bakary Cham is wearing a dark blazer over a white shirt. Standing to his right are two other young men. All three stare into the (...)
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Welcome to North Macedonia
Michael Goodyear
, 19 June 2018
The Republic of Macedonia reached a deal with Greece on 12 June to change Macedonia’s name: it will now be known as Severna Makedonija, or the Republic of North Macedonia. The (...)
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Change in Eastern Europe?
Andreas Umland
, 5 June 2018
The 2018-19 elections in Russia and Ukraine will change Eastern Europe’s political landscape. That could mean new chances for an end to (or escalation of) the war between (...)
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