Yemen: Successful Election Ends President Saleh’s Rule
The symbolic one-candidate presidential election of Yemeni Vice President Abdul Rab Mansour al Hadi to formally replace President Ali Abdullah Saleh appears to have been a success and marks the latest Arab leader to be ousted by last year’s Arab Spring protests. The new president faces formidable challenges from the Saleh family, Iranian influence, and terrorist groups as he tries to restore order and heal divisions caused by Saleh.
Click Here to Read Full Analysis. Pakistan: New Islamist Group Challenges Leadership, U.S.
The emergence in Pakistan of hard line Islamist coalition Difa-e-Pakistan (DPC) underscores the nation’s growing grassroots antipathy toward the United States as well as deep and chronic fractures between Pakistan’s government and its powerful military. With elections likely to take place later this year, the nuclear-armed nation could see social and government fault lines begin to shift dramatically.
Click Here to Read Full Analysis. Afghanistan: Karzai Warily Eyes a Future He Doesn’t Control
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is deeply suspicious that the United States will make a secret deal with the Taliban. To prevent this, he’s angling for ways to reach his own accommodation with the extremists who governed Afghanistan until 2001, when the U.S.-led coalition drove them from power. But can Karzai and the Taliban really make peace?
Click Here to Read Full Analysis. Zimbabwe: Will Mugabe Survive 2012?
Robert Mugabe, the man who has ruled Zimbabwe with an iron hand for more than three decades, called for a new presidential election in 2012. But in so doing, he wasn’t inviting a challenge. He was doing what the world’s worst dictators are really good at.
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