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It was high time for Zuma to go

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by Hans Dembowski
Members of the Indonesian Army Special Forces Commandos march during a parade.

Our view

By force or by consensus

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by Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar
Many armed fighters do not wear standardised uniforms, but they all have weapons: child soldiers in Goma.

Congo

“The state functions according to its entirely own logic”

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by Christoph Vogel
by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

We must choose between the SDGs and a world of bloodshed

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by Hans Dembowski
More and more Iranian women take off their headscarves and wave it around on a stick like the “girl from Enghelab Street” did.

Civil society

Third point of view

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by Katja Dombrowski
Pakistani soldiers parading in front of the tomb of independence leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah in Karachi.

Autocratic governance

Decades of military rule

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by D+C / E+Z

South Asian armed forces

They get along well unless they must shoot one another

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by Christian Wagner
by Hans Dembowski
President Joko Widodo (centre) wants the military to do more than protect Indonesia from external threats.

Governance

High-risk balancing act

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by Edith Koesoemawiria
In December 2016, four elected presidents (Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone and John Dramani Mahama of Ghana) told Gambia’s autocratic leader Yahya Jammeh that his time was over. Due to elections, Johnson Sirleaf and Mahama are no longer in office today.

Democratic governance

A mixed bag

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by Vladimir Antwi-Danso
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