Georgia 2016
Yearbook 2016 Georgia. At the beginning of the year, an investigation into war crimes concerning the war between the Russian Federation and Georgia was launched in 2008. It was the…
Yearbook 2016 Georgia. At the beginning of the year, an investigation into war crimes concerning the war between the Russian Federation and Georgia was launched in 2008. It was the…
Yearbook 2016 The Gambia. In April, a dozen members of the United Democratic Party’s (UDP) youth federation held a peaceful demonstration in the capital Banjul demanding political reform and President…
Yearbook 2016 Gabon. The current population of Gabon is 2,225,745. Presidential elections were held in August. The outcome was very smooth, and both President Ali Ben Bongo and his main…
France is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its main principles being liberty, equality, fraternity, and secularism. The politics of France are based on the principle of democracy and the nation…
Yearbook 2016 Finland. The current population of Finland is 5,540,731. President Sauli Niinistö’s speech at the opening of the parliament in February was a clear message about stricter refugee policies…
Yearbook 2016 Fiji. The tropical cyclone Winston, which swept over Fiji in February, was the worst that ever hit the country. The strongest wind gusts reached forces of about 85…
Yearbook 2016 Faroe Islands. In January it was reported that killer whales and dolphins in European waters carry surprisingly high levels of the PCB environmental toxin, although this has been…
Yearbook 2016 Ethiopia. The current population of Ethiopia is 114,963,599. Ethiopia was shaken during the year by extensive government-critical protests, which were met by violence from security forces with hundreds…
Yearbook 2016 Swaziland. The current population of Eswatini is 1,160,175. The country was plagued by the severe drought in a region that received less rainfall than 35 years ago. The…
Yearbook 2016 Estonia. In January, it was reported that Estonia and Finland were seeking EU funding for a tunnel project in the Gulf of Finland. The plans could become reality…
Yearbook 2016 Eritrea. The dictatorship regime in Eritrea was subjected to harsh international criticism during the year for the suppression of human rights. In March, the European Parliament demanded the…
Yearbook 2016 Equatorial Guinea. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, who has ruled since 1979, won the presidential election in April. The election was the first since the constitutional reform in 2011,…
Yearbook 2016 El Salvador. The current population of El Salvador is 6,486,216. Former President Antonio Saca (2004-09) was arrested on October 30 on his way home from his son’s wedding,…
Egypt is a unitary semi-presidential republic. The President of Egypt serves as the head of state and commander in chief of the armed forces. The Prime Minister serves as the…
Yearbook 2016 Ecuador. The current population of Ecuador is 17,643,065. President Rafael Correa’s worst corruption scandal during his ten years in power was revealed in November when it was discovered…
Yearbook 2016 Timor. Prolonged drought due to the weather phenomenon of El Niño caused food and water shortages during the year, which had major consequences for households in East Timor…
Yearbook 2016 Dominican Republic. On May 15, presidential, congressional and municipal elections were held, which clearly showed the dominance of the ruling party PLD (Dominican Liberation Party) in Dominican politics.…
Yearbook 2016 Dominica. The current population of Dominica is 71,997. An attempt to oust Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit by a vote of no confidence in Parliament in October failed. Before…
Yearbook 2016 Djibouti. The current population of Djibouti is 988,011. Six candidates ran for president in April, but Ismail Omar Guelleh, who has ruled Djibouti since 1999, won as expected…
Denmark is a constitutional monarchy, with Queen Margrethe II as the head of state. The nation’s political system is based on a parliamentary democracy, where the executive branch is led…
Yearbook 2016 Congo. The current population of DR Congo is 89,561,414. The political situation in the country was characterized by whether the elections, which were scheduled to be held in…
Yearbook 2016 Czech Republic. Czech eccentric President Miloš Zeman got into new controversy during the year. In January, he was condemned for a joke that only one election or a…
Yearbook 2016 Cyprus. The current population of Cyprus is 1,207,370. Work on a reunion agreement, which was revived in 2015, continued. The optimism that a contract could be finalized before…
Yearbook 2016 Cuba. On March 20, US President Barack Obama landed in Havana to visit Cuba as the first US president since 1928. The two-day visit was a natural highlight…
Croatia has a multi-party system and is a parliamentary democracy. The President of the Republic is the head of state and commander-in-chief of the Croatian Armed Forces, and is elected…
Yearbook 2016 Costa Rica. The municipal elections on February 7 were a big disappointment for the government party PAC (Citizens’ Action). Although the PAC retained power in the municipalities where…
Yearbook 2016 Comoros. As the constitution stipulates that the presidential post should rotate between the three largest islands, the first round of presidential elections was held only at Ngazidja (Grande…
Yearbook 2016 Colombia. After more than 50 years of civil war and almost four years of difficult negotiations in Havana, Cuba, a peace agreement was signed on September 26 between…
Yearbook 2016 China. The Communist Party continued its hard line against regime critics and human rights activists as well as the lawyers defending them. At the end of January, a…
Yearbook 2016 Chile. President Michelle Bachelet had a difficult year with falling world market prices on Chile’s most important export product copper, declining government revenue and declining popularity. The crisis…
Yearbook 2016 Chad. The current population of Chad is 16,425,875. The riots of Boko Haram’s ravages around Lake Chad led to a wave of refugees in the region and the…
Yearbook 2016 Central African Republic. Both the presidential and parliamentary elections held at the end of December 2015 were disputed. In the end, the country’s constitutional court annulled the parliamentary…
General information about Canada The name of Canada derives from the word “Kanata” in the already extinct language of the Huron Indians, which means small village. Today, the “small village”…
Yearbook 2016 Cameroon. The current population of Cameroon is 26,545,874. The Nigerian Islamist rebel movement Boko Haram continued to spread terror among the people of northern Cameroon, although the number…
Yearbook 2016 Cambodia. The political tension in Cambodia rose during the year when the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) began to tighten its muscles ahead of the 2017 local elections…
Yearbook 2016 Cape Verde. During the year, elections were held for both parliament and the presidential post. The former was organized in March and led to Cape Verde’s African Independence…
Yearbook 2016 Burundi. The current population of Burundi is 11,890,795. Political turmoil and tensions in the country continued in the wake of President Pierre Nkurunziza’s contentious 2015 decision to be…
Yearbook 2016 Burkina Faso. President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, who took office in December 2015, appointed Paul Kaba Thieba, a politically inexperienced economist with a background in the West African…
Bulgaria is a parliamentary representative democratic republic, and according to its Constitution, the Prime Minister of Bulgaria is the head of government. The President of Bulgaria serves as the head…
Yearbook 2016 Brunei. In April, the country’s industry minister announced that the government was considering establishing several free trade zones in the country to facilitate the import of halal products…