Opposition parties in many of the world’s newest and least established democracies enter elections knowing that they have little chance of winning. This is largely owing to the great disadvantages they face in accessing resources that are easy for governing parties to come by – and how common it is for such polls to be rigged. Increasingly, opposition parties aren’t taking their losses lying down. Nic Cheeseman outlines the five main
steps disgruntled politicians are taking to discredit election results and governing parties.
Julian Assange finally gets his day in court in the UK this week. The extradition hearing is to decide whether to send him to the US to be tried for publishing classified military documents. Holly Cullen explains, there are many possible outcomes for the case, depending on how the arguments play out in court.
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Kenya’s Supreme Court upholds President Uhuru Kenyatta’s election victory following a re-run in 2017.
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Nic Cheeseman, University of Birmingham
By pushing their usually valid complaints onto the streets and the courts, opposition leaders deny governments the popular goodwill and international credibility they need to govern effectively.
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Holly Cullen, University of Western Australia
Assange's legal team is expected to argue the US extradition request is politically motivated and the Wikileaks founder is unlikely to receive a fair trial in the US.
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Business + Economy
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Muazu Ibrahim, University for Development Studies
African governments need to spend more effort on maximising the impact of foreign direct investment on economic growth
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Jan Fichtner, University of Amsterdam; Eelke Heemskerk, University of Amsterdam; Johannes Petry, University of Warwick
Now that passive funds have eclipsed their actively managed competitors, climate finance is increasingly in some new pairs of hands.
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Environment + Energy
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Bill David, University of Oxford
Making ammonia produces almost 2% of global carbon dioxide emissions.
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Tammara Soma, Simon Fraser University
Waste-free by 2035 in Indonesia is doable through three strategies to reduce food waste.
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Gilles Bertschy, Université de Strasbourg
Compte tenu de la prévalence élevée de la dépression, on peut imaginer que des caractéristiques la facilitant aient été retenues par la sélection naturelle, eu égard aux avantages qu’ils procuraient.
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François Cuynet, Sorbonne Université
Le site archéologique de Tiwanaku dispose à la fois d’une protection nationale et internationale. Pourtant, les vestiges qui s’y trouvent ont été souvent dénaturés.
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