In South Africa, where the Africa Cup of Nations starts on Saturday following its transfer from strife-torn Libya, the government is trying to drum up enthusiasm by summoning the delirious spirit with which the country hosted the 2010 World Cup.
Such closed-door and undemocratic power transfers may erupt in internal strife, with far-reaching repercussions.
It marks the strife-torn nation's first transfer of power via the ballot box.
It is the strife-torn nation's first transfer of power via the ballot box.
They even transfer professionals away from African countries with economic or political strife to places where they can be productive.11 Facilitating these short-term, project-based stays have been successful.
"If we got this wrong, there would have been civil strife," John Githongo, an anticorruption activist, said of the remarkably orderly transfer of power.
It was sincerely believed, for instance, that once the coal mines had been transferred from private to public ownership under the flag of the National Coal Board, ancient strife between managers and miners would cease.
The United Nations special envoy to Iraq departed Friday, warning that the country faced a significant chance of civil strife, and leaving unresolved the contentious question of holding elections before the June 30 transfer of sovereignty to Iraqis.
After decades of strife, the citizens of Pakistan can point to May 11 , 2013 as the first civilian transfer of power through general elections following the successful completion of a term by a democratically elected government.
When the Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, suggested Rustam Minnikhanov the prime minister of Tatarstan and chairman of its oil company Tatneft as the next Tatar president, he was voicing Mr Shaimiev's wish as much as his own.In contrast, the transfer of power in Dagestan, a Muslim republic in the north Caucasus, has been accompanied by murder, explosions and civil strife.
