100 days with Barrow – A New Gambia

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By Viktor Sundman This weekend, political commentators are turning their eyes to the USA to evaluate the first hundred days of the Trump presidency. In doing so, they are missing another businessman-turned-President who is passing the benchmark date by which early presidencies are judged: Adama Barrow of the Gambia. Barrow…

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After Brexit, Scoxit?

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By Viktor Sundman They were dismissed as scaremongers, but now those who warned that Brexit could trigger renewed calls for Scottish independence have been proven right. On Tuesday the 28th of March, the Scottish Parliament voted to ask permission of the UK government to hold a new referendum between autumn 2018…

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The Death of a Baobab Tree

By Viktor Sundman Etienne Tshisekedi was a giant – or as one of his former colleagues put it, a baobab tree – in Congolese politics. Between 1991 and 1997 he was named prime minister of Zaire (as the Democratic Republic of the Congo was then called) no less than four…

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