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Following years of intense political infighting within the African National Congress (ANC), which resulted in President Thabo Mbeki getting kicked out and led to the historic establishment of the rival Congress of the People (COPE), South Africa’s parliamentary ballot on April 22 will be the closest-watched election in the country since 1994. In my mind,… [Read more]

I note with some surprise that since Risk Watchdog launched last July, I have never dedicated a post to India. Therefore, I see no better time than the beginning of India’s mammoth general elections to address this shortcoming. Lest anyone forget, India is the largest democracy on Earth, and along with China, one of two… [Read more]

Brazil’s government appears to have finally crossed the Rubicon of greater state intervention in the banking sector, with President Lula replacing the head of state-run bank giant Banco do Brasil in early April. The new man for the job, Aldemir Bendine, takes over from Antonio Francisco de Lima Neto, as part of a wider government… [Read more]

With China set to release its Q109 GDP figures on Thursday, Beijing’s record-breaking CNY4trn (US$585bn) stimulus package remains firmly in the spotlight. Indeed, a recent Reuters poll revealed that growth is forecast to slow to 6.3% in the first three months of 2009, and with exports continuing to nosedive – exports shrunk by 17.1% y-o-y… [Read more]

Another week, another summit. This time around it’s the Organisation of American States (OAS) shindig in Port of Spain, Trinidad, and it appears as though US leader Barack Obama has already delivered the perfect Easter present to Cuba by allowing ‘unlimited’ family travel and remittances for Cuban Americans. While this move was hardly a surprise… [Read more]

In case you hadn’t noticed, there’s been trouble in Moldova and Georgia of late. The reason that both small ex-Soviet states have erupted onto your TV screens (and Risk Watchdog) this week is that both have seen crowds of 10,000+ angry citizens take to the streets of their respective capital cities to protest against their… [Read more]