Jane's Intelligence Review - Country Risk Watch

Country Risk Watch

*Bosnia-Herzegovina risks social protest over war pensions
The World Bank urged political leaders in Bosnia-Herzegovina on 5 October to push through difficult economic and social measures to which it had committed ...
16-Oct-2009

*Argentina protests at UK Falklands upgrade
On 22 September, the Argentine government criticised the deployment of four new British fighter aircraft to the Falkland Islands and expressed its regret at ...
16-Oct-2009

Iran 'does not fear' possible US restrictions on gasoline
On 8 October, Iranian Minister of Oil Massoud Mir-Kazemi said Tehran does not fear US steps to restrict its access to gasoline products on ...
15-Oct-2009

Instability in Guinea increases tensions within ruling junta
Allies of Guinea's military leader denied a split within the junta, amid high tensions following a bloody protest on 28 September, Radio France Internationale ...
15-Oct-2009

*Co-ordinated attacks hit Pakistan's Punjab
On 15 October, militants launched three near-simultaneous attacks in Lahore, targeting two police training buildings and the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), killing at least ...
15-Oct-2009

US envoy gets mixed Israeli messages
US Middle East envoy George Mitchell received conflicting signals from Israeli government ministers on his latest visit to the country on 8 October. First, ...
15-Oct-2009

Summit falls short of East Asian vision
China, Japan and South Korea's second trilateral summit in Beijing on 10 October demonstrated continued regional co-operation but did not realise the vision of ...
15-Oct-2009

*Japan's electoral result to shift international relations
The opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) won a landslide victory in the 30 August general elections, denoting a paradigm shift in the country's ...
18-Sep-2009

Uganda hunts LRA rebels in Central African Republic
Uganda is continuing its offensive against Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels, extending into the Central African Republic, Uganda's New Vision online reported on 7 ...
18-Sep-2009

Venezuela confirms arms and oil deals with Moscow
On 13 September, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez confirmed that Russia would open a USD2.2 billion credit line for arms purchases, indicating an upswing in ...
18-Sep-2009

*Arctic exercises highlight resources race
On 17 August, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper began a five-day visit to view ongoing military exercises in his country's Arctic region in a ...
18-Sep-2009

*Indonesia police claim Noordin Top is dead
Four suspected militants were killed and three others arrested during a counter-terrorism raid in Indonesia's Central Java province on 17 September, according to police. ...
18-Sep-2009

Huge Northern Ireland bomb defused
A British army bomb disposal team in Northern Ireland made safe a 272 kg (600 lb) bomb near the border with the Republic of ...
18-Sep-2009

Slovakian police and protesters clash at anti-Roma rally
Five police personnel were injured as they attempted to disperse an anti-Roma march in the eastern Slovakian town of Sarisské Michalany on 9 August. ...
14-Aug-2009

Russia and Georgia bicker over South Ossetia
Georgia accused Russia of seizing territory around the separatist region of South Ossetia on 2 August as tensions mounted ahead of the anniversary of ...
14-Aug-2009

Inter-tribal clashes undermine south Sudan security
More than 180 people in Akobo county, in southern Sudan's Jonglei State, were killed in a dawn raid by suspected rival tribesmen on 2 ...
14-Aug-2009

Baitullah's death unlikely to ease militancy
Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud was reported on 7 August to have been killed in a US missile strike in South Waziristan tribal agency. ...
14-Aug-2009

US moves to bolster Somali government
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Somalia's President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed on 6 August, bolstering US efforts to support the fragile Somali ...
14-Aug-2009

Cuba continues to face economic crisis
On 31 July, Cuban President Raúl Castro announced the postponement of the Communist Party Congress alongside new measures to combat worsening economic indicators, suggesting ...
14-Aug-2009

Deaths mark Yemen's war anniversary
At least two people were killed in demonstrations in Yemen on 8 July on the 15th anniversary of the end of the country's civil ...
17-Jul-2009

Sudan reschedules polls to April 2010
Sudan's election commission has postponed the country's general elections from February to April 2010. Under the January 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended ...
17-Jul-2009

*Uighur protests inflame China's far west
Inter-ethnic violence in China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) has suggested Beijing's transmigration policies may be destabilising the country's far west. At least 192 ...
17-Jul-2009

Ingush president injured in suspected militant attack
The president of the southern Russian republic of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, was seriously wounded in a suicide car bomb attack on 22 June. Yevkurov ...
17-Jul-2009

*Police injured in Ulster parades violence
On 13 July, Sinn Féin blamed the Real IRA for sporadic violence accompanying Orange Order parades across Northern Ireland in which 21 police officers ...
17-Jul-2009

Papua mining deaths increase tensions in Indonesia
The rebel Free Papua Movement (Organisasi Papua Merdeka: OPM) denied shooting an Australian mine worker in Indonesia's Papua province on 14 July. Drew Grant,...
17-Jul-2009

*Negotiations begin following Honduran bloodless coup
Costa Rican President Oscar Arias is mediating negotiations between ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya and the new government of interim leader Roberto Micheletti. Two ...
17-Jul-2009

*Mexican police and military drug raids target politicians
On 26 May, federal police and military raids in the Mexican Pacific state of Michoacán led to the arrest of 10 mayors and 18 ...
19-Jun-2009

Militant attacks strike eastern Uzbekistan
On 26 May, the Uzbek government reported the most serious militant attacks in the country for several years when a suicide bomber and gunmen ...
19-Jun-2009

*Election unrest shakes Iran to the core
The popular mobilisation against the vote count in the Iranian presidential elections of 12 June has the potential to seriously weaken the foundations of ...
19-Jun-2009

Myanmar launches military offensive against Karen
As many as 3,000 ethnic Karen fled to Thailand from Myanmar in early June, following the launch of a military offensive. Although Thai Army ...
18-Jun-2009

Gabon in mourning after president Omar Bongo dies
Gabon announced 30 days of mourning following official confirmation of the death of President El Hadj Omar Bongo in a hospital in Spain on ...
18-Jun-2009

Italian police arrest six over G8 plot
Italian police arrested six people on 10 June on suspicion of planning an attack on the G8 summit due to be held in the ...
18-Jun-2009

Fiji extends emergency, courts China
On 9 June 2009, the interim government in Fiji extended the Public Emergency Regulation (PER) for a further 30 days, the second time the ...
18-Jun-2009

*Militant attacks continue in Chechnya
Two police officers and a civilian were killed in a roadside bomb attack in Chechnya on 13 May. The attack took place close to ...
19-May-2009

Chilean arms deal pushes Peru into security reform
On 4 May, Peru's Prime Minister Yehude Simón gave his backing to proposals for modernisation of the Peruvian armed forces. Simón said that ¡national ...
15-May-2009

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