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Imported cars from China on their way to a dealership in Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent. Photo by the author. Used with permission. At the beginning of April, over 400 businessmen voiced dissatisfaction with Uzbekistan's new regulations governing electric car imports. In the video addressed to President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, they requested the withdrawal of the changes that practically bar individuals from importing electric vehicles (EVs) for resale, allowing them to bring only one car per year into the country. The new regulations allow only authorized dealers to import and sell foreign cars. H...
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Judith Suminwa Tuluka, DRC's prime Minister. Screenshot from France24 YouTube channel. OnApril 1, 2024, in a historic decision few nations worldwide can boast of, Judith Suminwa Tuluka was named prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). As prime minister, she will be responsible for running the day-to-day administrative tasks and implementing the policies set by the president, who oversees the executive functions of the government. WithJudith Suminwa Tuluka‘s appointment as prime minister, the Congolese people's wait for a new government has finally concluded. Three months ...
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Kuandyk Bishimbayev, who killed his wife Saltanat Nukenova, sitting in court in Astana, Kazakhstan. Screenshot from the video “«Шесть с половиной часов она меня мучила»: Бишимбаев рассказал, за что мстил Салтанат” from Informburo 31‘s YouTube channel. Fair use. This post contains mentions of domestic violence which may be disturbing to some readers. Since late March, Kazakhstan has been gripped by the ongoing jury trial of the former economy minister, Kuandyk Bishimbayev, who killed his wife, Saltanat Nukenova. A particularly disturbing detail of the case is that Bishimbayev beat her to death ...
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Paul Amegakpo, president of the Tamberma Institute for Governance (ITG) based au Togo. Photo by Jean Sovon, used with permission. Originally scheduled for April 20, 2024, Togo is getting ready to hold its combined legislative and regional elections on April 29, 2024. As this will be the first regional election to be held under the decentralization process, this election will be a first for this country of over nine million inhabitants. Togo is divided into five administrative regions and has 113 members of parliament elected for a six-year term (including the April 2024 elections). Following t...
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PTI Chairman Imran Khan in June 2023. Image via Wikimedia Commons by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. (CC BY 3.0). On April 1 this year, a Pakistan court suspended former Prime Minister Imran Khan's 14-year jail sentence for illegally selling state gifts given to him by foreign dignitaries while in office. He was sentenced alongside his wife Bushra Bibi, on January 31, 2024, a week before the February 8 general elections, which Khan's party claims were rigged. Earlier, on February 3, 2024, Khan and his wife received a seven-year jail sentence for breaching Islamic marriage laws. Khan, who has been de...
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Art by Global Voices over photos of Alexandre de Moraes by Antonio Augusto/TSE and Elon Musk by James Duncan Davidson on Flickr. Licenses: Public domain and (CC BY-NC 2.0), respectively. Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes included the owner of X (formerly Twitter), Elon Musk, in an investigation into the operations of digital militias in the country. The decision was taken on April 8, a couple of days after Musk reposted an X official account claiming to have received the court's orders to block accounts in Brazil, saying they would appeal it. Moraes is the justice in charge of...
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This text, written by Lucas Pedretti and edited by Thiago Domenici, was originally published on Agência Pública's website on March 27, 2024. An edited version is republished on Global Voices under a partnership agreement. In the early days of March 1985, shortly before José Sarney assumed the presidency, the National Information Service (SNI) produced a secret study, which compared the performance of intelligence agencies in democracies and in totalitarian regimes, with the title “Information in democratic regimes.” In its assessment, employing “certain methods” in democracies could represe...
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Screenshot of RussiaPost article's page. Used with permission from RussiaPost. Based on her research, Vlada Baranova claims that the war in Ukraine has led to the ethnicization of conflicts and confrontation between the federal authorities, perceived as “Russian,” and the Indigenous population. Language and environmental activism is becoming more tinged with nationalism, as well. Her study was carried out within the framework of the Nemtsov Fund program “Known Unknowns: Studying Russia after 2022” and published by RussiaPost. Global Voices is republishing the article, edited for clarity, with ...
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Monument of Independence, located in Bamako (capital of Mali). Screenshot from the Tv5monde YouTube Channel. Fair use. Since the coup d’état on May 24, 2021, a transition government has been in charge of Mali and shows no sign of returning to the civilian-led government that political parties are calling for. What’s more, it has also recently announced measures to restrict the press. Following the first coup d’état in August 2020, Colonel Assimi Goita took charge of the country from to The presidential elections scheduled for February 2024 did not go ahead. In the lead up to March 26, 2024, po...
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Collage by Arzu Geybullayeva. Photos courtesy of OC Media. Used with permission. Thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets to protest the controversial foreign agent bill tabled last year but re-introduced by the ruling Georgian Dream Party on April 3, 2024. Pundits say the Georgian Dream Party is steadily derailing their country's path to European Union accession. After three days of large-scale protests and domestic and international criticism, the draft bill passed the first reading at the parliament. Meanwhile, party officials lashed out at local civil society groups, accusing them ...
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