Yearbook 2010 United Arab Emirates. According to COUNTRYAAH, United Arab Emirates has a population of 9.631 million (2018). Dubai’s Dubai leadership announced in March a comprehensive debt restructuring plan that was set to post $ 9.5 billion to the debt-laden conglomerate Dubai World, which handled all of the emirate’s heavy investments. In September, the conglomerate…
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Ukraine 2010
In 2010, Ukraine was a country in Eastern Europe with a population of around 46 million people. It was bordered by Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Hungary, Romania, and Poland. The capital city was Kiev. The currency of Ukraine at this time was the hryvnia. The official language of the country was Ukrainian but Russian and other…
Uganda 2010
Yearbook 2010 Uganda. At least 74 people were killed and about as many were injured when explosive charges were detonated in two premises in the capital, Kampala, July 11. According to COUNTRYAAH, Uganda has a population of 42.72 million (2018). The attacks, probably carried out by suicide bombers, were aimed at a restaurant and a…
Tuvalu 2010
Yearbook 2010 According to COUNTRYAAH, Tuvalu has a population of 11,508 (2018). Tuvalu and other low-lying island nations in the Pacific are not sinking as fast as scientists have previously claimed. The islands are growing instead, according to a geological study presented in the scientific journal Global and Planetary Change in June. The study, made…
Turkmenistan 2010
Yearbook 2010 Turkmenistan. According to COUNTRYAAH, Turkmenistan has a population of 5.851 million (2018). The gloss of deceased dictator Saparmurat Nijazov fell further during the year. Turkmenbasji the Great, as he was called, had his gold statue dismantled. His successor, President Gurbanguli Berdimuchammedov, ordered the 15-meter-high rotating gold statue to be removed from the 75-meter…
Turkey 2010
In 2010, Turkey was a bustling country full of activity, with a population of over 72 million people. It had a diverse economy with agriculture, energy production, and tourism all playing major roles. The country was suffering from an economic crisis at the time, but the government had implemented reforms to help mitigate the effects…
Tunisia 2010
Yearbook 2010 Tunisia. Violent crows erupted in December after a young unemployed academic, Mohammed Bouazizi, set fire to himself in protest of police seizing the vegetables he sold in the absence of a job. Bouazizi was killed by the burns and several people were killed in the subsequent demonstrations against unemployment. Four opposition movements –…
Trinidad and Tobago 2010
Yearbook 2010 Trinidad and Tobago. According to COUNTRYAAH, Trinidad and Tobago has a population of 1.39 million (2018). The opposition demanded a vote of no confidence in April because of corruption allegations against the government. Then Prime Minister Patrick Manning announced something unexpected new election. The election was held in May and resulted in the…
Tonga 2010
Yearbook 2010 Tonga is a country located in Oceania. In February, the captain was charged with the Princess Ashika ferry, which sank off Tonga in August 2009 with 74 deaths as a result. Captain Maka Tuputupu was charged with driving the ferry even though he knew it was not seaworthy, which he acknowledged after the…
Togo 2010
Yearbook 2010 Togo. According to COUNTRYAAH, Togo has a population of 7.889 million (2018). Faure Gnassingbé was re-elected with 61 percent of the vote in the March presidential election. The election was both preceded and followed by protests and questions. Two opposition candidates jumped off a few weeks before the election in protest against ambiguities…
Thailand 2010
Yearbook 2010 Thailand. The protests against the resignation of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in 2006 continued this year as well, and increased dramatically. In mid-March, his red-clad supporters, the “red shirts”, began to rally again in central Bangkok, demanding new elections to Parliament. According to COUNTRYAAH, Thailand has a population of 69.43 million (2018). Prime…
Tanzania 2010
Yearbook 2010 Tanzania. Before the general election this autumn, the rival parties on the Zanzibar archipelago signed a power-sharing agreement. In a referendum, a local constitutional amendment was approved which stipulates that the two largest parties should appoint each vice president and that the ministerial posts should be distributed proportionally between them. According to COUNTRYAAH,…
Tajikistan 2010
Yearbook 2010 Tajikistan. Immediately after the New Year, the Pamir Mountains in eastern Tajikistan were hit by a severe earthquake that left many people homeless in severe cold. As winter passed in unusually sudden heat, large snowfalls followed, which isolated tens of thousands of mountain dwellers and demanded death victims. According to COUNTRYAAH, Tajikistan has…
Taiwan 2010
Yearbook 2010 In January, Taiwan signed an agreement with the United States for the purchase of, among other things, air defense robots and helicopters for $ 6.5 billion. The arms purchase agreement had been delayed for several years due to political opposition in both countries. According to softwareleverage, China criticized the settlement. Despite this, the…
Syria 2010
Yearbook 2010 Syria. According to COUNTRYAAH, Syria has a population of 16.91 million (2018). The country’s rapprochement with the United States, which began in 2009, halted since Syria tried to persuade Lebanon not to cooperate with the UN tribunal that investigated the assassination of Lebanon’s former prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri in 2005 and after it…
Switzerland 2010
Yearbook 2010 Switzerland. A diplomatic dispute arose in February when it became clear that Germany had bought a stolen list of names of German taxpayers with accounts in Switzerland of a former bank employee. According to COUNTRYAAH, Switzerland has a population of 8.545 million (2019). Germany defended the purchase and referred to a similar purchase…
Sweden
The Carolinian era At the Riksdag in 1655, Karl X Gustav enforced a decision on partial reduction, which had been required by the saints since 1644. At the same time, a decision was made to start a war again, this time against Poland. Great initial success was followed by growing difficulties when Russia first and…
Suriname 2010
Yearbook 2010 Suriname. The year was very successful for Suriname’s former dictator, 64-year-old Desi Bouterse. On May 25, his coalition Mega Combinatie won 23 out of 41 seats in Congress, while President Runaldo Ronald Venetian’s New Front became the second largest group with 13 seats. Thus, the game began to mobilize support for Bouterses candidacy…
Sudan 2010
Yearbook 2010 Sudan. According to COUNTRYAAH, Sudan has a population of 41.8 million (2018). Presidential and parliamentary elections were held in April, the first since 1986 to be held in completely democratic forms. But the elections did not bode well for the 2011 referendum on a possible division of the country. Most opposition candidates for…
Sri Lanka 2010
Yearbook 2010 Sri Lanka. According to COUNTRYAAH, Sri Lanka has a population of 21.67 million (2018). President Mahinda Rajapaksa was re-elected in January with 57.8 percent of the vote. His closest challenger, former commander-in-chief and deadly enemy Sarath Fonseka, received 40 percent. They were both former allies, but they faced each other after the army…
Spain 2010
In 2010, Spain was a rapidly growing economy with a population of approximately 46 million. The country had just come out of an economic crisis and was beginning to recover, with GDP growth reaching 3.9%. The unemployment rate was still high at 20%, but the Spanish government was beginning to take steps to reduce it….
South Korea 2010
Yearbook 2010 South Korea. Attacks from North Korea whipped up unusually fierce moods in the country during the year. An explosion occurred in March aboard a warship that was near the disputed sea border in the west. According to COUNTRYAAH, South Korea has the population of 51.64 million (2018). The Coronet Cheonan was split in…
South Africa 2010
Yearbook 2010 South Africa. President Jacob Zuma was often in the eye during the year. In February, he aroused scandal by admitting that he became the father of an extra-marital child. Zuma already has three wives and 19 children with them. Now he was criticized for being a bad example in the work of limiting…
Somalia 2010
Yearbook 2010 Somalia. After some slowdown in the first months of the year, piracy increased again. In November, at least 20 vessels with well over 400 crew members were reported to be in the pirates’ violence. A number of vessels were released during the year since the pirates received ransom payments, usually equivalent to tens…
Solomon Islands 2010
Yearbook 2010 Solomon Islands. This year’s parliamentary elections were threatened by the election authorities’ lack of resources. According to COUNTRYAAH, Solomon Islands has the population of 652,858 (2018). The electoral lengths needed updating, and there was no funding for work on a new federal constitution that was not ready for the election. But the election…
Slovenia 2010
Yearbook 2010 Slovenia. According to COUNTRYAAH, Slovenia has a population of 2.081 million (2019). The bourgeois opposition considered that an agreement with Croatia to resolve a border dispute through international mediation constituted “capitulation” and called for a binding referendum on the issue. Although Prime Minister Borut Pahor signed an agreement on mediation with his Croatian…
Slovakia 2010
Yearbook 2010 Slovakia. In March, President Ivan Gašparovič vetoed a contentious law aimed at strengthening Slovak patriotism. Among other things, the law required that the schools play the national anthem every Monday and that the flag should be in the classrooms. The law was a work of a nationalist party in the government coalition and…
Singapore 2010
Yearbook 2010 Singapore. According to COUNTRYAAH, Singapore has a population of 5.639 million (2018). A Malaysian-registered tanker leaked outside Singapore in May following a collision with a cargo ship. Beaches were blocked off, but most of the roughly 2,500 tonnes of crude oil that leaked could be picked up from the sea. The Strait of…
Sierra Leone 2010
Yearbook 2010 Sierra Leone. The UN Security Council in September repealed the remaining sanctions that have been directed at Sierra Leone since the civil war in the 1990s. The country is allowed to buy weapons again and no leading persons are prevented from traveling abroad. The UN commended the progress made and stated that the…
Seychelles 2010
Yearbook 2010 During the year, Seychelles became one of the leading African countries in the fight against the Somali pirates, which in autumn 2009 had become a growing problem for the tourist nation. When international naval forces began to patrol the Gulf of Aden at the Horn of Africa, the pirates moved south and proceeded…
Serbia 2010
Yearbook 2010 In March, Serbia apologized for the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia in 1995, when several thousand Muslim boys and men were murdered by Bosnian Serb forces. Parliament adopted, by a marginal margin, a resolution condemning the massacre and apologizing to the victims’ relatives. The International Court of Justice in The Hague had ruled that…
Senegal 2010
Yearbook 2010 Senegal is a country in Africa. On April 4, Senegal celebrated 50 years of independence from France. On the same day, the old colonial power formally surrendered its military bases in the country. France would take home 900 of its 1,200 soldiers. The remaining 300 would be left to train military in the…
Saudi Arabia 2010
Yearbook 2010 Saudi Arabia. According to COUNTRYAAH, Saudi Arabia has a population of 33.7 million (2018). The royal house’s fight against jihadist groups continued. In March, 113 people were arrested on suspicion of planning attacks against various authorities. Most of them were Saudis and Yemenites and were arrested in the province of Jizan at the…
Sao Tome and Principe 2010
Yearbook 2010 São Tomé and Príncipe. According to COUNTRYAAH, Sao Tome and Principe has a population of 211,028 (2018). The parliamentary elections in August led to São Tomé and Príncipe once again getting a minority government. New Prime Minister became Patrice Trovoada, who previously led the country for three months in 2008. His party of…
San Marino 2010
Yearbook 2010 San Marino. According to COUNTRYAAH, San Marino has a population of 33,785 (2018). The International Monetary Fund (IMF) called on San Marino to reform its pension system to overcome deficits. The national football team fought bravely in the European Championship qualifiers but failed to repeat the bravery from 2004, namely to win a…
Samoa 2010
Yearbook 2010 According to COUNTRYAAH, Samoa has a population of 196,130 (2018). Samoa’s head of state Tuiatua Tupua Tamasese Tupuola Efi (Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Efi) was banned during the year from the village where his chief title is anchored. Thus his position as head of state was threatened. The banning decision was made by…
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2010
Yearbook 2010 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. According to COUNTRYAAH, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has a population of 110,210 (2018). Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves did a minor refurbishment in his government at the beginning of the year, when two ministers were replaced. In May it was announced that the country had withdrawn from the…
Saint Lucia 2010
Yearbook 2010 Saint Lucia. According to COUNTRYAAH, Saint Lucia has a population of 181,889 (2018). An escalation of the already high crime rate, with over 20 dead in gang crime in just a few months, caused the government to convene for a crisis meeting in May. Prime Minister Stephenson King then presented a series of…
Saint Kitts and Nevis 2010
Yearbook 2010 Saint Christopher and Nevis. According to COUNTRYAAH, Saint Kitts and Nevis has a population of 52,441 (2018). The ruling Labor Party SKNLP (St Kitts-Nevis Labor Party) secured a fourth term when elections to the National Assembly were held in January. The party got six of the eight selectable seats on the island of…
Rwanda 2010
Yearbook 2010 According to COUNTRYAAH, Rwanda has a population of 12.3 million (2018). Rwanda continues to be praised for an orderly economy and low corruption, but the political climate is hardening. During the first months of the year, at least three people were killed and about sixty were injured in a number of hand grenade…