Yearbook 2008 Senegal. In the spring of 2008, the protests that started in November the year before continued against rising food prices. On March 30, police launched tear gas at protesters in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, which sought to conduct a protest march against deteriorating living conditions as a result of continued food price increases. The…
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Saudi Arabia 2008
Yearbook 2008 Saudi Arabia. The Ministry of the Interior reported at the end of June that during the first six months of the year, security forces had arrested 701 people suspected of involvement in militant Islamism. 181 had been released but 520 were still arrested. The value of the Saudi stock exchange, the largest in…
Sao Tome and Principe 2008
Yearbook 2008 São Tomé and Príncipe. The unstable parliamentary situation that prevailed after an unclear result in the 2006 general election led in February to the government not being able to support its budget. Prime Minister Tomé Vera Cruz and his government resigned, but unrest continued. New Prime Minister Patrice Emery Trovoada, leader of parliament’s…
San Marino 2008
Yearbook 2008 San Marino. New elections were held in San Marino in November, after the fall of the government coalition and attempts to form a new government failed. As a new electoral law demanded that any coalitions be presented in advance, the two dominant parties formed each of them alliances. Won made Christian Democratic PDCS’s…
Samoa 2008
Yearbook 2008 Samoa. During the year, Samoa received criticism from the UN World Health Organization for not taking the country’s many cases of typhoid seriously and addressing the probable cause, polluted water in the capital, Apia. The Ministry of Health rejected the criticism, but typhoid has been a problem in Samoa for several years. A…
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2008
Yearbook 2008 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. In July, lawyer Jomo Thomas launched a new social policy movement called the People’s Movement for Change. In his inaugural speech in the capital Kingstown, Thomas said that the movement would not primarily focus on electoral movements, but instead “unite the people” and “raise people’s consciousness” by participating…
Saint Lucia 2008
Yearbook 2008 Saint Lucia. The Cotonou Agreement was replaced in the autumn with a new economic partnership, the EPA (Economic Partnership Agreement), between the EU and Saint Lucia. EPA meant that tariffs and import duties on the EU market were almost completely eliminated for goods from the Caribbean. At the same time, the agreement meant…
Saint Kitts and Nevis 2008
Yearbook 2008 Saint Christopher and Nevis. In August, Prime Minister Denzil Douglas reformed his government to concentrate work on the most important issues: national security, state finances, the labor market, social development, information and technology. Douglas took over responsibility for national security, immigration, foreign policy, sustainable development, tourism, sports and culture. The Cotonou Agreement was…
Rwanda 2008
Yearbook 2008 Rwanda. Already in 2006, Rwanda had broken diplomatic relations with France. This after a French judge accused the circle of President Paul Kagame for lying behind the 1994 assassination of the then president who triggered the massacre of 800,000 Tutsis. In 2008, the situation deteriorated another step when President Kabuye’s President of the…
Russia 2008
Yearbook 2008 Russian Federation. There were hopes in the outside world that the presidential shift in the Russian Federation would bring some liberalization inward and relaxed relations outward. But 2008 was the year when democracy was crushed even more, the Russian Federation went to war with a neighboring country and the relationship with the West…