Yearbook 2010 Romania. According to COUNTRYAAH, Romania has a population of 19.41 million (2019). The government that took office before the New Year was forced into unpopular austerity measures to lower the budget deficit and pave the way for necessary loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the EU and the World Bank. For Romania,…
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Republic of the Congo 2010
Yearbook 2010 Congo. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) granted Congo a $ 1.9 billion debt write-off in accordance with the program to support the world’s poorest and most indebted states. The two institutions said that the country fulfilled its obligations in the fight against poverty, the creation of macroeconomic stability, the…
Qatar 2010
In 2010, Qatar was a rapidly developing country in the Middle East. It had an oil-based economy and was one of the world’s top exporters of petroleum and natural gas. Qatar had also recently been awarded the right to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, which sparked a surge in infrastructure projects and investments. In…
Portugal 2010
Yearbook 2010 Portugal. According to COUNTRYAAH, Portugal has a population of 10.28 million (2019). The economic recession Portugal entered into in 2009 continued with unabated strength throughout 2010. This meant that a recurring mantra for the year became austerity measures (mediated by the austerities) and how different parties reacted to them. Land area 92,090 km²…
Poland 2010
In 2010, Poland was a developing country with a population of around 38 million people. It had recently joined the European Union in 2004 and was experiencing rapid economic growth. Poland had a strong industrial base, with the majority of its workers employed in the service sector. The country was also making strides in modernizing…
Philippines 2010
Yearbook 2010 Philippines. The May presidential election became a grand victory for Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino. He received 42 percent of the vote against 26 for second, former president Joseph Estrada. Aquino, who was previously a relatively anonymous congressman, had a reputation for being honest and corruption-free. He was best known as the son of two…
Peru 2010
Yearbook 2010 Peru. On October 3, the trend of recent years in Peru was confirmed, namely that national parties have a very difficult time winning elections at the regional level. In 18 of the country’s 25 regions, local and regional parties instead won. The traditional party that made the most of it was the Conservative…
Paraguay 2010
Yearbook 2010 Paraguay. In the municipal elections held November 7, the old power party Colorado Party, which for the first time in 61 years was an opposition party, succeeded very well. Of the country’s 238 municipalities, the party won in 139, and in addition, they won in 14 of the 17 provincial capitals. According to…
Papua New Guinea 2010
Yearbook 2010 Papua New Guinea. The year was marked by bitter power struggles and ended in political chaos. According to COUNTRYAAH, Papua New Guinea has a population of 8.606 million (2018). The Supreme Court forced the corruption-accused Prime Minister Michael Somare to step aside and ruled that the renewal of Governor Paulias Matanes’s mandate was…
Panama 2010
Yearbook 2010 Panama. According to COUNTRYAAH, Panama has a population of 4.177 million (2018). The political opposition to President Ricardo Martinelli intensified during the year. Among other things, the country’s trade union central organization Frenadeso protested in March against the government’s planned restructuring of tax policy and mobilized tens of thousands of protesters. After clashes…
Palau 2010
Yearbook 2010 Palau. In January, the United States promised a $ 250 million aid package to Palau. According to COUNTRYAAH, Palau has a population of 17,907 (2018). The money would be distributed annually until 2024. For 2010, $ 20 million was paid. President Johnson Toribiong denied that the aid had any connection to Palau receiving…
Pakistan 2010
Yearbook 2010 Pakistan. The state of similar civil war that Pakistan has been in since 2007 continued unabated during the first half of the year. Only when the country was hit by floods in August, which was described as one of the world’s worst natural disasters in modern times, did the terror attacks temporarily subside….
Oman 2010
In 2010, Oman was a monarchy ruled by Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said. The country was located on the Arabian Peninsula and bordered the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen. Its population in 2010 was approximately 3 million people with a diverse cultural heritage. The main language spoken in Oman was Arabic although…
Norway 2010
In 2010, Norway was a prosperous and peaceful country with a population of 4.9 million people. It had the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund and an economy heavily reliant on oil and gas exports. Norway was ranked as one of the happiest countries in the world, due to its high quality of life, low unemployment…
Northern Macedonia 2010
Yearbook 2010 Northern Macedonia (until 2019 Macedonia). Tensions between the Macedonian majority and the country’s Albanian minority came in the day when schools were ordered from the spring term to introduce first-class Macedonian education for Albanian children. The decision led to a widespread school boycott. According to COUNTRYAAH, Northern Macedonia has a population of 2.077…
North Korea 2010
Yearbook 2010 North Korea. The constant tensions on the Korean Peninsula took on a couple of unusually violent expressions during the year. In March, a South Korean warship exploded and sank near the disputed border of the Yellow Sea; 46 sailors perished. An international investigation concluded that the ship was lowered by a torpedo fired…
Nigeria 2010
Yearbook 2010 Nigeria. President Umaru Yar’Adua passed away in May. He was admitted to a hospital in Saudi Arabia in November 2009 for heart problems and his long absence created a power vacuum that during the winter began to be troublesome. The rules for when, and under what circumstances, a sick president had to be…
Niger 2010
Yearbook 2010 Niger. President Mamadou Tandja was deposed in a military coup on February 19. About ten people were killed in fighting in connection with the coup. The new military junta, which called itself the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy (Conseil Suprême pour la Restoration de la Democracy, CSRD), placed Tandja and his…
Nicaragua 2010
Yearbook 2010 Nicaragua. The old conflict with Costa Rica over the San Juan border river was dramatically raised in the latter part of the year, despite the fact that the International Court of Justice in Hague had issued a compromise opinion in 2009 explaining the area of Nicaraguan territory but with the right for Costa…
New Zealand 2010
Yearbook 2010 New Zealand. In April, the government signed the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The relatively new declaration regulates human rights and the right to land and natural resources. According to softwareleverage, New Zealand was one of the few countries that voted against the declaration when it was adopted by the…
Netherlands 2010
Yearbook 2010 Netherlands. The three-year-old coalition government burst in February because of disagreements over the military operation in Afghanistan. NATO wanted to keep close to 2,000 Dutch soldiers. Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende’s Christian Democratic Party CDA advocated extended mandate for the troops, but the Social Democratic Labor Party bluntly refused. When no compromise could…
Nepal 2010
Yearbook 2010 Nepal. According to softwareleverage, a week-long strike in May, led by the Maoist Party, marked the beginning of a long political crisis. The Maoists, who themselves led a short-lived government in 2008-09, claimed that the government did not have the people’s support and had failed to commit to give the country a new…
Nauru 2010
Yearbook 2010 Nauru. In January, it was clear that the Russian Federation had promised Nauru a $ 50 million aid package, which would go to developing the country’s port, airport, hospitals and schools, among other things. In return, Nauru would approve of the Russian-backed Georgian outbreak states of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. According to COUNTRYAAH,…
Namibia 2010
Yearbook 2010 Namibia. In March, a court ruled on the outcome of the 2009 parliamentary elections. Nine opposition parties had questioned the ruling party SWAPO’s (South West Africa People’s Organization) victory with close to three-quarters of the votes and got a recalculation and re-examination of the voting lengths. On the basis of these results, they…
Myanmar 2010
Yearbook 2010 Burma. Throughout the year, all attention was directed to the general elections promised by the military junta after pushing through a new constitution in 2008, which would make the country appear democratic. In March, a new electoral law was passed, according to which the military junta would hand-pick members of an electoral commission….
Mozambique 2010
Yearbook 2010 Mozambique. Despite impressive economic growth over a number of years and major investments in infrastructure development, the government of Mozambique has not significantly succeeded in raising the population’s living standards. About 55 percent of residents are estimated to live in poverty, a level that has been stuck for several years. When the government…
Morocco 2010
Yearbook 2010 Morocco. According to COUNTRYAAH, Morocco has a population of 36.03 million (2018). 41 people were killed on February 20 when a minaret collapsed and fell on hundreds of prayers during Friday prayers at the Bab El Baradyine Mosque in the city of Meknès. After the accident, a review was made of 19,000 of…
Montenegro 2010
Yearbook 2010 Montenegro. According to COUNTRYAAH, Montenegro has a population of 622,182 (2019). Efforts continued to achieve EU and NATO membership. The country participated in the armed operation in Afghanistan and planned to send troops to fight pirates outside Somalia. The major stumbling block was deficiencies in the judiciary and widespread corruption, just as in…
Mongolia 2010
Yearbook 2010 Mongolia. After a dry and hot summer of 2009, which destroyed a significant part of the hay crop, Mongolia was hit by an unusually bitter winter with a lot of snow and a temperature around -40 ° C for long periods in most of the country. Millions of livestock animals succumbed to the…
Monaco 2010
Yearbook 2010 Monaco. According to COUNTRYAAH, Monaco has a population of 38,682 (2018). The head of state, Prince Albert, announced in June that he was engaged to South African swimmer Charlene Wittstock. The 52-year-old Albert previously had a reputation for being a bachelor and playboy. Since joining the throne in 2005, he has acknowledged two…
Moldova 2010
Yearbook 2010 Moldova. The nation was persecuted by Parliament’s failure last year to create a majority for the election of new president. The political deadlock slowed down necessary reforms in one of Europe’s poorest and most corrupt countries. According to COUNTRYAAH, Moldova has a population of 3.546 million (2018). The Constitutional Court ruled in March…
Micronesia 2010
Yearbook 2010 The Micronesian Federation and other low-lying island nations in the Pacific are not sinking as fast as scientists have previously claimed. According to COUNTRYAAH, Micronesia has a population of 112,640 (2018). The islands are growing instead, according to a geological study presented in the scientific journal Global and Planetary Change in June. The…
Mexico 2010
Yearbook 2010 Mexico. Criminal violence in Mexico only worsened during the year, especially in cities along the US border. According to COUNTRYAAH, Mexico has a population of 126.2 million (2018). The worst affected were the states of Chihuahua and Nuevo León. In Ciudad Juárez in Chihuahua, which is already ranked as the most dangerous city…
Mauritius 2010
Yearbook 2010 Mauritius. In the May 5 parliamentary elections, the Alliance of the Future (L’Alliance de l’Avenir) won. The Alliance, which the ruling Labor Party had formed before the election together with the Mauritanian Socialist militant movement and the Mauritanian Social Democratic Party, got 41 of the 69 seats in Parliament. The main opponent was…
Mauritania 2010
Yearbook 2010 Mauritania. In March, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) granted Mauritania a three-year loan program totaling US $ 118 million. According to COUNTRYAAH, Mauritania has a population of 4.403 million (2018). The purpose of the program is to support the country’s economy, which has been adversely affected by the fuel and food crisis of…
Marshall Islands 2010
Yearbook 2010 Marshall Islands. In April, the United States Supreme Court rejected a request for more damages from victims of U.S. probation in the Marshall Islands. The Supreme Court upheld a previous ruling by a federal appeals court, which ruled that residents of the atolls had already received enough compensation under a 1986 agreement between…
Malta 2010
Yearbook 2010 Malta. EU Refugee Commissioner Cecilia Malmström visited Malta on 30 April. Malmström, who had previously criticized Malta’s treatment of refugee children, visited internment camps where children are often forced to live with adults in difficult conditions. According to aid organizations, asylum seekers also lack access to care and school. According to COUNTRYAAH, Malta…
Mali 2010
Mali is a State of north-west Africa; it borders to the North with Algeria, to the East with Niger, to the South with the Republic of Guinea, the Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso, to the West with Mauritania, Senegal and the Republic of Guinea. Yearbook 2010 Mali. According to softwareleverage, Mali authorities received harsh criticism…
Maldives 2010
Yearbook 2010 During the year, according to softwareleverage, the Maldives was in a drawn-out political tug of war between the government and the opposition, which almost paralyzed both the work of Parliament and the government. In June, the entire government collectively resigned, citing the opposition, which has a majority in parliament, blocking all legislative proposals….
Malaysia 2010
In 2010, Malaysia was a vibrant and diverse country made up of 13 different states and 3 federal territories. It was a multicultural society with Malays, Chinese and Indians coexisting in harmony. Malaysia enjoyed a booming economy due to its strategic location on the South China Sea, where it became an important trading post for…