On the sidelines of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires in early December, Argentina and the US signed an agreement of cooperation on energy and infrastructure. In addition, the US…
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) had been in a tactical alliance with the Nationalist Action Party (MHP) since late 2015, which served three main purposes. First,…
On 11 September, the Council of Ministers approved the Economic and Social Plan as well as the national budget bill for 2019, which are due to be sent to parliament…
On 2 October, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office confirmed that it had received the interim report from the Nugent Commission of Inquiry into governance and administration issues at the South African…
While President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) has appointed seasoned politicians and longtime friends to key roles in his administration, he has also created new positions to implement his ambitious…
On 12 August, President Ilham Aliyev and the other heads of the five Caspian littoral states signed a long-awaited Caspian Convention and six related documents. Together, these could lead to…
The standoff over Libya’s oil crescent has been resolved for now, following an announcement that Khalifa Haftar’s forces handed control of the country’s eastern ports to the Tripoli-based National Oil…
President Michel Temer’s government is expanding efforts to liberalize energy policy, but opposition is also coalescing. Officials are looking to privatize state-controlled electricity company Eletrobras and allow Petrobras to sell…
In early June, unidentified individuals armed with guns and machetes raided three isolated villages in Macomia and Quissanga districts, in Cabo Delgado province. They killed 12 people and set fire…
On 16 May, President Mauricio Macri announced that his “gradualist” approach to economic reform was over. This came after two weeks of economic and political tension, marked by a run…