The Second Civil War The war broke out again when an army battalion stationed in Bor rebelled and sought refuge in Ethiopia. Several followed, and the SPLA organized their resistance match from there. The reason for the war resumed was not least the introduction of Shari’a legislation also in the south, as well as a…
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South Korea 2008
Yearbook 2008 South Korea. South Korea’s perhaps biggest cultural treasure, Namdaemunporten, was totally destroyed in February in a created fire. The gate, which was built in 1398, was made of wood and constituted a remnant of the old city wall that surrounded Seoul. The country’s newly elected president Lee Myung Bak quickly took a much…
South Africa 2008
Yearbook 2008 South Africa. National Police Chief Jackie Selebi was suspended from office in January after prosecutors announced that they intended to bring charges against him for corruption. He was accused of receiving money from a murderous businessman. He immediately left the assignment as head of Interpol. One of South Africa’s most experienced judges, Tamil-murdered…
Somalia 2008
Yearbook 2008 Somalia. One result of Somalia’s collapse as a state was the sharply increased piracy activity along the country’s coast during the year. By mid-December, over a hundred vessels of various kinds had been attacked and some 40 of them were hijacked, including a Ukrainian ship loaded with tanks to Kenya and a Saudi-owned…
Solomon Islands 2008
Yearbook 2008 Solomon Islands. At the beginning of the year, the new Prime Minister Derek Sikua made a “reconciliation trip” in the region to repair the damaged relations with mainly Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. The Solomon Islands’ former head of government had succeeded in annoying the region’s great power and the country’s…
Slovenia 2008
Yearbook 2008 Slovenia. During the first six months of the year, Slovenia was first among the EU’s new members in Eastern Europe to hold the presidency. The government’s main concern was the continued rapprochement between the EU and the Western Balkan countries. The September parliamentary elections led to Slovenia again being left-wing, after four years…
Slovakia 2008
Yearbook 2008 Slovakia. When Kosovo declared independence at the beginning of the year, Slovakia did not follow the EU majority but refused to recognize the new state. On the one hand there were historical causes, Slovakia remembers its own heavy losses of land to Hungary and Germany in 1938-39, and on the other, a dangerous…
Singapore 2008
Yearbook 2008 Singapore. Mas Selamat Kastari, former leader of the Singaporean branch of the radical Islamist terrorist network Jemaa Islamiyya, fled in February from the prison he has been in since 2006. He managed to escape in connection with a family visit. Kastari was arrested in 2003 in Indonesia, from where he was subsequently extradited…
Sierra Leone 2008
Yearbook 2008 Sierra Leone. In January, the government decided to ban timber exports for the time being. Chinese and other foreign companies have been accused of deforestation, especially since the logging ban in Guinea and Ivory Coast drove them to Sierra Leone. Local elections were conducted in July in orderly form. Like the 2007 parliamentary…
Seychelles 2008
Yearbook 2008 Seychelles. The international financial crisis in the fall of 2008 led to a decline in Seychelles’ important tourism industry. The crisis also made it clear that the country’s powerhouse had built up an unsustainable economy with large government spending at the expense of very high foreign debt. In September, the effects of the…