News from March 2021
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Ethiopia is a federal republic. The Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front, a coalition of four ethnically based parties, controlled the government until December 2019 when the coalition dissolved and was replaced by the Prosperity Party. In the 2015 general elections, the Ethiopian Peoples’...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: West Bank and Gaza. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. Israel is a multiparty parliamentary democracy. Although it has no constitution, its parliament, the unicameral 120-member Knesset, has enacted a series of “Basic Laws" that enumerate fundamental rights. Certain fundamental laws, orders, and regulations legally...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Chad is a centralized republic in which the executive branch dominates the legislature and judiciary. In 2016 President Idriss Deby Itno, leader of the Patriotic Salvation Movement, was elected to a fifth term in an election that was neither free nor fair. During the 2011 legislative elections, the ruling...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Senegal is a republic dominated by a strong executive branch. In February 2019 voters re-elected Macky Sall as president for a second term of five years in elections local and international observers considered generally free and fair.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - Construction for the bridge and tunnel preservation project will begin on the night of April 4, 2021 with anticipated completion in Fall 2021. The completion date has been updated to Fall 2021 to provide more flexibility for the construction project. In 2017, bridges and tunnels along...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Uzbekistan is a constitutional republic with a political system led by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and his supporters. In 2016 Mirziyoyev, the former prime minister, won the presidential elections with 88 percent of the vote. The Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) in Europe Office for...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: The Kingdom of Belgium is a parliamentary democracy with a limited constitutional monarchy. The country is a federal state with several levels of government: national; regional (Flanders, Wallonia, and Brussels); language community (Flemish, French, and German); provincial; and local. The Federal Council ...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is an authoritarian state ruled by a single party, the Communist Party of Vietnam, and led by General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, and Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan. The most recent National Assembly elections, held in 2016, were neither free nor fair; there was limited competition among Communist Party-vetted candidates.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: The Republic of Burundi is a constitutional, multiparty republic with an elected government. The 2018 constitution, promulgated in June 2019, provides for an executive branch that reports to the president, a bicameral parliament, and an independent judiciary. In May voters elected President Evariste...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - U.S. Attorney David C. Weiss for the District of Delaware, announced today that Luis Raul Castro Valenzuela, aka “Chacho," was charged with holding a U.S. Citizen, listed in the indictment by his/her initials (hereinafter “the victim"), with kidnapping and with hostage taking. The three-count indictment also alleged that Castro Valenzuela conspired to distribute heroin and fentanyl between March 2017 and Nov. 11, 2020.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: The Sultanate of Oman is a hereditary monarchy ruled since January by Sultan Haitham bin Tarik Al Said; Haitham was the designated successor of Qaboos Al Said, who had ruled since 1970. The sultan has sole authority to enact laws through royal decree, although ministries and the bicameral Majlis Oman...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Cote d’Ivoire is a democratic republic governed by a president re-elected in October under conditions generally considered free, although some international observers questioned the fairness of the overall electoral process. Ahead of the country’s October 31 presidential election, civil society and international...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Nigeria is a federal republic composed of 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. In February 2019 citizens re-elected President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress party to a second four-year term. Most independent observers agreed the election outcome was credible despite logistical challenges, localized violence, and some irregularities.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: As spring nears and the weather warms, you may find yourself thinking of summer vacations and road trips. If the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States is on your list of possible destinations this summer (and if it isn’t, maybe it should be), your first stop might be the interactive website...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Namibia is a constitutional multiparty democracy. In the presidential and parliamentary elections in November 2019 President Hage Geingob won a second five-year term, and the South West African People’s Organization retained its parliamentary majority, winning 63 of 96 National Assembly seats. International observers characterized the 2019 election as generally free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Indonesia is a multiparty democracy. In April 2019, Joko Widodo (popularly known as Jokowi) won a second five-year term as president. Voters also elected new members of the House of Representatives and the Regional Representative Council, as well as provincial and local legislatures. Domestic and international...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Dominica is a multiparty parliamentary democracy. The prime minister is the head of government. The House of Assembly elects the president, who serves as the head of state. In the 2019 election, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit’s Dominica Labour Party prevailed over the opposition United Workers Party...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: The Republic of Kazakhstan’s government and constitution concentrate power in the presidency. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev became president after June 2019 elections that were marked, according to an observation mission by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s Office for Democratic Institutions...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Representatives Gregory W. Meeks and Michael McCaul, Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, sent a bipartisan letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressing concern over the growing ongoing conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Portugal, which includes the archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira, is a constitutional semipresidential representative democracy with a president, prime minister, and parliament elected in multiparty elections. Observers considered the national legislative elections in October 2019 to be free and fair.
