Republic of the Congo 2016
Yearbook 2016 Congo. In a disputed referendum in the fall of 2015, an amendment to the country’s constitution was approved that allowed President Denis Sassou-Nguesso to run for another term.…
Yearbook 2016 Congo. In a disputed referendum in the fall of 2015, an amendment to the country’s constitution was approved that allowed President Denis Sassou-Nguesso to run for another term.…
Qatar is a sovereign Arab state located in Western Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula. Qatar has been ruled as an absolute…
Yearbook 2016 Portugal. Perhaps the most important event of the year was not political, it was sporting: July 10 won the Portuguese national team for the first time European football…
Poland is a democratic republic with a multi-party system. The current President of Poland is Andrzej Duda, who was elected in 2015 and re-elected in 2020. The Prime Minister of…
Yearbook 2016 Philippines. The current population of Philippines is 109,581,089. About 20 people were killed during the run-up to the presidential election in May, including seven in ambush on election…
Yearbook 2016 Peru. The current population of Peru is 32,971,865. The second round of the presidential election on June 5 became the smoothest in Peru’s history, and when the votes…
Yearbook 2016 Paraguay. The current population of Paraguay is 7,132,549. President Horacio Carte’s plans to bring about a change in the country’s constitution for the 2018 presidential election so that…
Yearbook 2016 Papua New Guinea. An outbreak attempt in a Lae prison in February turned bloody. Police shot eleven prisoners to death and 17 interns were injured. Several dozen prisoners…
Yearbook 2016 Panama. The current population of Panama is 4,314,778. Panama’s already disgraceful reputation as a tax haven deteriorated significantly when millions of documents were leaked to a German daily…
Yearbook 2016 Palau. The current population of Palau is 18,105. The president since 2013, Tommy Remengesau, received 49% of the vote in the first round of the presidential elections in…
Yearbook 2016 Pakistan. In January, 22 people were killed in a terror attack against Bacha Khan University in the city of Charsadda in northwestern Pakistan. The attack is said to…
Oman is an absolute monarchy, with the Sultan of Oman as the head of state and Prime Minister. The Sultan has full executive authority, and serves as the Chairman of…
Norway is a parliamentary democracy with a constitutional monarchy. The Norwegian political system is based on the principle of separation of powers among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. The…
Yearbook 2016 Northern Macedonia (until 2019 Macedonia). After ten years as prime minister, Nikola Gruevski resigned in January in accordance with a deal with the opposition, following a revelation that…
Yearbook 2016 North Korea. The current population of North Korea is 25,778,827. Tensions on the Korean Peninsula increased further during the year, which North Korea began by testing nuclear weapons.…
Yearbook 2016 Nigeria. The current population of Nigeria is 206,139,600. The country struggled with a failing economy in 2016 and went into a recession. The main reason was attributed to…
Yearbook 2016 Niger. The current population of Niger is 24,206,655. The country was plagued by the ravages of Boko Haram’s ravages in the border area against Nigeria. The movement affiliated…
Yearbook 2016 Nicaragua. President Daniel Ortega won a landslide victory in the November 6 presidential election with 72% of the cast, his third victory in a row. Second place was…
Yearbook 2016 New Zealand. In March, New Zealand held a referendum on the country’s flag. The choice was between keeping the flag with the British Union flag in one corner…
Yearbook 2016 Netherlands. In January, the government agreed to extend the Netherlands’ participation in the US-led air strikes against the Islamic State terrorist sector (IS) to include Syria. The country…
Yearbook 2016 Nepal. After the government made a legislative change to the country’s new constitution, in February protesters lifted roadblocks at a border crossing to India. As a result, Nepal…
Yearbook 2016 Nauru. The current population of Nauru is 10,835. News reporting during the year was customarily dominated by the refugee camps set up by Australia in Nauru. In January,…
Yearbook 2016 Namibia. In February, the government announced its intention to pursue a policy whereby selected farms would be expropriated, that is, the existing owner would be forced to sell.…
Yearbook 2016 Burma. The current population of Myanmar is 54,409,811. Burma got its first civilian president in 50 years in March when Parliament appointed Htin Kyaw from the ruling National…
Yearbook 2016 Mozambique. The current population of Mozambique is 31,255,446. The violence that erupted in 2015 between government forces and the former rebel movement Renamo continued in early 2016, causing…
Yearbook 2016 Morocco. A dispute between Morocco and the UN arose in March since UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon during a visit to a Western Saharan refugee camp in Algeria…
Yearbook 2016 Montenegro. The current population of Montenegro is 628,077. The severe political crisis continued with a tug of war between the Western-friendly government and the opposition alliance Democratic Front…
Yearbook 2016 Mongolia. The current population of Mongolia is 3,278,301. Agriculture was affected by drought and poor harvest from the previous autumn and by a harsh winter that threatened the…
Yearbook 2016 Monaco. During the year, the EU and Monaco signed an agreement on automatic exchange of tax information. The current population of Monaco is 39,253. According to thereligionfaqs, the…
Yearbook 2016 Moldova. The current population of Moldova is 4,033,974. The political crisis from last year survived. Moldova was without government, and when the parliament was to appoint a new…
Yearbook 2016 Micronesia Federation. According to thereligionfaqs, in March, severe drought was reported in the Micronesia Federation. The reason was said to be the meteorological-oceanographic phenomenon El Niño, which under…
According to thereligionfaqs, Mexico narrows like a funnel into a Central American isthmus to connect the northern and southern parts of America. The country’s colorful culture reflects the encounter between…
Yearbook 2016 Mauritius. In March, Prime Minister Anerood Jugnauth announced that Finance Minister Vishnu Lutchmeenaraido has expressed a desire to leave his office for health reasons. The current population of…
Yearbook 2016 Mauritania. In May, the country’s president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, announced his intention to call a referendum on whether to abolish Parliament’s House of Commons, the Senate. The…
Yearbook 2016 Marshall Islands. According to thereligionfaqs, despite the defeat of the incumbent government in the November 2015 parliamentary elections, government supporters managed to get their candidate, Casten Nemra, elected…
Yearbook 2016 Malta. The current population of Malta is 441,554. Thousands of protesters demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat in April, after his chief of staff and the…
Yearbook 2016 Mali. In January, Sweden’s Foreign Minister, Defense Minister and ÖB Mali and the Swedish UN troop visited about 250 soldiers in Timbuktu. The peace process was discussed with…
Yearbook 2016 Maldives. The current population of Maldives is 540,555. President Abdulla Yamin continued during the year to strengthen his grip on power by silencing or in various ways disposing…
Malaysia is a federal constitutional monarchy located in Southeast Asia. Since its independence from the British Empire in 1957, the country has been governed as a parliamentary democracy. The federal…
Yearbook 2016 Malawi. During the first months of the year, thousands of refugees from neighboring Mozambique sought refuge in Malawi as a consequence of the resumed fighting between the former…