imported 2024-03-17 17:43:06
Ghana is a country whose people are almost similar to those living in neighbouring countries. Still, Ghana is noted for a burgeoning democracy, peaceful changes in governments between political parties and a respected constitution.
Bahrain Top Stories
What’s a Political Society to do? Al-Wefaq’s Decay
When Al-Wefaq’s General Secretary, Ali Salman, established the party – Bahrain’s largest – he couldn’t have guessed that the hopeful group which brought all coalitions in the Shiite community together with academics and influential persons would, just a few years later, be rapidly decaying in its membership and influence.
Bahrain Top Stories
The Bahraini Political Crisis: Reconciling the Narratives
Three major narratives compete for dominance in explaining Bahrain’s post-2011 political crisis: the narrative of foreign interference/instigation, the narrative of sectarian discrimination and conflict, and those who insist the sectarian narrative has been invented to divert attention away from a revolution of the entire- or at least most of- the population.
Sameera Rajab, Minister of State for Information
The freedom of speech is 100% guaranteed through constitutional texts. The new media law includes more details and privileges for journalists and media personnel, it also provides more protection of this freedom.
Amin A. Al Arrayed, General Manager of First Bahrain, explains how the political situation gets in way of doing business in Bahrain.
While the strong irredentist urge of the Kurdish people over the centuries has always been to have a state to call their own, the one territory to have nearly achieved this — the Autonomous Kurdistan Region — part of northern federal Iraq, is walking a tightrope on actually pressing for full statehood in the near term.
Mark DeWeaver, Co-founder of Quantrarian Capital Management – a DC-based emerging markets hedge fund – and author of Animal Spirits with Chinese Characteristics: Investment Booms and Busts in the World’s Emerging Economic Giant, discusses the stability issues in Iraq.
The government of Kurdistan Region is doing everything necessary to achieve self-sufficiency of the Region within the new federal Iraq. Kurdistan Region is well-known for its investment-friendly law thanks to which the Investment Board of Kurdistan has been so far able to attract more than $22 billion of investments since 2006. Mr. Barzani also stresses the importance of understanding and recognition of the difficulties the Region had to overcome in the past.
For some time the Northern Iraq city and province of Kirkuk has been the political, security and economic fault line between the increasingly autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government, and federal Iraq.
Driving the region’s economy is Kurdistan’s gas and oil reserves, estimated respectively at 100-200 trillion cubic feet and 45 billion barrels, with possibly another 25 billion potential barrels in unproven reserve.
