In 2010, Germany was a prosperous and thriving nation. With a population of over 82 million people, it was the most populous country in the European Union and one of the world’s major economic powers. The country had a strong economy with low unemployment, a high standard of living, and an abundance of natural resources….
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Georgia 2010
Yearbook 2010 Georgia. In January, air travel between Tbilisi and Moscow resumed, one and a half years after the war between Georgia and the Russian Federation. In March, the two countries also opened the only useful border crossing, which had been closed for three years. At the beginning of the year, three militants were sentenced…
Gambia 2010
Yearbook 2010 The Gambia. A tense political situation prevailed throughout the year, possibly an early start to the 2011 presidential campaign. In February, UN agency UNICEF representative Min Whee-Kang was expelled, who, without explanation, was given a day to leave the country. According to COUNTRYAAH, Gambia has a population of 2.28 million (2018). The decision…
Gabon 2010
Yearbook 2010 Gabon. Despite protests from the opposition, the PDG government in December passed a constitutional amendment that gives the president the right to extend his term of office in a “crisis situation” as long as he sees fit. The opposition argued that the constitutional change could pave the way for dictatorship. Under the new…
France 2010
In 2010, France was a nation of 65 million people, with the majority living in urban areas. The country was home to a number of world-renowned cities, including Paris, Lyon, and Marseille. In terms of culture and lifestyle, France was known for its relaxed pace of life and the appreciation of fine food. It also…
Finland 2010
Yearbook 2010 Finland. Minister of Local Government and Administration Mari Kiviniemi was elected new chair of the Center Party in June after Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen, who announced his resignation six months in advance. This meant that Kiviniemi, 41, also took over as prime minister after Vanhanen. She thus became Finland’s second female prime minister….
Fiji 2010
Yearbook 2010 Fiji. In 2010, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama further tightened control over Fiji’s citizens, including through tougher media laws and revoked rights of people who criticize him. Since Bainimarama took power in a military coup in December 2006, the regime has become increasingly dictatorial. In January, Bainimarama introduced a decree which meant that all…
Faroe Islands 2010
Yearbook 2010 Faroe Islands. In March the Lagtinget presented a proposal for a new constitution for the Faroe Islands, where it was mentioned, among other things, that all power lies with the people of the Faroe Islands. At the same time, the national community was not mentioned with Denmark. The Danish government reacted, saying that…
Ethiopia 2010
Yearbook 2010 Ethiopia. According to COUNTRYAAH, Ethiopia has a population of 109.2 million (2018). The parliamentary elections in May were in sharp contrast to the previous elections in 2005. At that time, the opposition was strongly ahead, but the election was followed by severe unrest and mass prisoners. This time, the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary…
Eswatini 2010
Yearbook 2010 Swaziland. The undemocratic regime’s oppression of political dissent continued, and there were signs of frustration in the regime over the growing popularity of the opposition among the population. The police were suspected of faking a series of fire bomb attacks, which were then used as grounds for arresting members of political parties and…
Estonia 2010
Yearbook 2010 Estonia. At the beginning of the year, 89-year-old wealthy Estonian businessman Harry Männil died in Costa Rica. He was charged with collaboration with Gestapo and participation in the murder of Jews during the Nazi occupation of Estonia during the Second World War. Prosecutors in Estonia had written off the suspicions against Männil in…
Eritrea 2010
Yearbook 2010 Eritrea. According to softwareleverage, very few news sizzled during the year from the closed Eritrea, one of the world’s hardest dictatorships. Among the few reports on the condition in the country were information from a defected former camp guard, who in January said that the Swedish journalist Dawit Isaak was alive but probably…
Equatorial Guinea 2010
Yearbook 2010 Equatorial Guinea. In January, seven Nigerians were each sentenced to twelve years in prison and high fines for participating in an armed attack on the presidential palace in 2009. In August, four former high ranking military and civil servants were sentenced to death for lying behind the same attack. According to Amnesty International,…
El Salvador 2010
Yearbook 2010 El Salvador. According to COUNTRYAAH, El Salvador has a population of 6.421 million (2018). The power measurement between the government and organized crime continued during the year. In June, members of one of the largest crime leagues (“maras”) fired a bus on the outskirts of the capital, San Salvador, and set fire to…
Egypt 2010
In 2010, Egypt was a country with a population of around 82 million people. It was an Islamic country, with the majority of its citizens following the Muslim faith. The official language was Arabic and the primary currency was the Egyptian Pound. Egypt had a thriving economy, with tourism being one of its main sources…
Ecuador 2010
Yearbook 2010 Ecuador. According to COUNTRYAAH, Ecuador has a population of 17.08 million (2018). A serious political crisis broke out in Ecuador on September 30. Eight hundred police officers barricaded themselves in the police headquarters in the capital, Quito, in protest of a law that, in accordance with the government’s general cuts in public spending,…
East Timor 2010
Yearbook 2010 According to COUNTRYAAH, East Timor has a population of 1.268 million (2018). East Timor was recognized during the year for progress in the work against corruption and for strengthened legal security. For the time being, the country was given an official with overall responsibility for the fight against corruption. The opposition has earlier…
Dominican Republic 2010
Yearbook 2010 Dominican Republic. According to COUNTRYAAH, Dominican Republic has a population of 10.63 million (2018). The ruling Partido de la Liberación Dominicana (PLD) won a convincing victory in the congressional and municipal elections held on May 16. In the Senate, the party won all seats except one, which went to the main competitor, Partido…
Dominica 2010
Yearbook 2010 Dominica. According to COUNTRYAAH, Dominica has a population of 71,625 (2018). Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit presented his new government in early January, following the election victory the month before. The Labor Party (Dominica Labor Party) began a third term with a series of new ministerial names. Other ministers were given changed responsibilities. Both…
Djibouti 2010
Yearbook 2010 In April, according to softwareleverage, Djibouti’s parliament abolished the limit on how long the country’s president can keep his post. The constitutional changes meant that the previous two-term limit, which would have forced President Ismail Omar Guelleh in the 2011 election, was removed. Parliament also decided to shorten the term of office of…
Denmark 2010
In 2010, Denmark was a small, prosperous country in northern Europe. It had a population of 5.5 million people and the capital was Copenhagen. The official language was Danish and the currency was the Danish krone. The government was a constitutional monarchy with Queen Margrethe II as its head of state. The economy relied heavily…
Democratic Republic of the Congo 2010
Yearbook 2010 Congo. According to COUNTRYAAH, Democratic Republic of the Congo has a population of 84.07 million (2018). Congo gained the most attention during the year for the rapes committed by militia soldiers in the eastern provinces. About 500 women, girls, toddlers and boys were raped in July and August in 13 villages in the…
Czech Republic 2010
Yearbook 2010 Czech Republic. After severe political divisions, the Czech Republic had lived with an expedition minister for almost a year, when President Václav Klaus in February announced elections. Former Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek was forced to leave his post as leader of the market-oriented Democratic Citizenship Party, ODS, following scandalous statements about both the…
Cyprus 2010
Yearbook 2010 Cyprus. The conflict between the parties on the shared island remained unsolved. In the Turkish Cypriot presidential election in April, Derviş Eroğlu, the head of government and leader of the right-wing National Unity Party (UBP), won. He appointed newly appointed UBP leader İrsen K邦ç邦k, who previously held several ministerial posts, as new prime…
Cuba 2010
Yearbook 2010 Cuba. A dialogue between the Cuban government and dignitaries from the Catholic Church in Cuba on human rights began in May and led to somewhat improved conditions for Cuba’s imprisoned political dissidents. In July, it was announced that 52 prisoners would be released over the following months. The origin of the government’s new…
Croatia 2010
In 2010, Croatia was still a relatively new country, having declared independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. Croatia is located in the Balkan region of Europe and has a population of 4.2 million people. The country is bordered by Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the north, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the…
Costa Rica 2010
Yearbook 2010 Costa Rica. On February 7, for the fifth time in the history of Latin America, a woman was elected president. According to COUNTRYAAH, Costa Rica has a population of 4.999 million (2018). Laura Chinchilla of the ruling party PLN (Partido de Liberación Nacional) clearly won by 47 percent of the vote, twice as…
Comoros 2010
Yearbook 2010 Comoros. In January 2010, President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi postponed the planned presidential election until 2011. Thus, the term of office of Zambi was extended, which should have actually expired on May 26, 2010. The term of office of the Union President had been formally extended from four to five years already in May…
Colombia 2010
Yearbook 2010 Colombia. In the second round of the presidential election June 20, Juan Manuel Santos, leader of an alliance of center-right parties, won a smashing victory over Colombian environmentalist Antanas Mockus. Santos, who lost a victory by just barely a margin in the first round of elections in May, received 69 percent of the…
China 2010
Yearbook 2010 China toured like a growing, for some frightening, dragon on the world stage in 2010. During the summer, the country went about Japan as the world’s second largest economy. But the US remained in first place – its GDP was still three times that of China: $ 14.6 trillion, against 5.7 trillion for…
Chile 2010
Yearbook 2010 Chile. Two dramatic events marked the year in Chile and became major media news worldwide. The first was a powerful earthquake that hit the country’s southern and central parts on February 27. The earthquake, which measured 8.8 on the Richter scale, was one of the most powerful ever and 50 times stronger than…
Chad 2010
Yearbook 2010 Chad. At the beginning of the year, a French aid worker who was kidnapped three months earlier was released. The kidnapping as well as the murder of another relief worker had prompted six aid organizations to temporarily withdraw from Chad. According to COUNTRYAAH, Chad has a population of 15.48 million (2018). President Idriss…
Central African Republic 2010
Yearbook 2010 Central African Republic. According to COUNTRYAAH, Central African Republic has a population of 4.666 million (2018). General elections that would have been held during the year were postponed in rounds and were finally announced until January 2011. Parliament decided to extend the president’s term until the election could take place. Otherwise, he would…
Canada 2010
Yearbook 2010 Canada. In February, a dispute about shrimp fishing arose between Canada and the Danish islands of Greenland and the Faroe Islands. Canadian Fisheries Minister Gail Shea accused the Greenlandic and Faroese fishermen of overfishing shrimp on international waters off Canada’s east coast. According to the Minister, fishermen do not follow the quotas set…
Cameroon 2010
Yearbook 2010 Cameroon. Since Cameroon took over the Bakassi Peninsula from Nigeria with UN support in 2008, the area has been problematic. During the year, pirates conducted several raids against vessels and kidnapped crew members with demands for ransom. A previously unknown group called themselves Africa Marine Commando (AMC) in March robbed seven Chinese sailors….
Cambodia 2010
Yearbook 2010 Cambodia. For a long time, the first verdict came against a leader in the Communist Red Khmer terrorist regime in Cambodia in the 1970s. It had been over 30 years since the regime’s fall and four years since the UN-backed tribunal began its work. According to COUNTRYAAH, Cambodia has a population of 16.25…
Cairo Attractions and Tourist
Cairo Attractions Giza Pyramids No one leaves Cairo without visiting these three huge monuments, located in Giza just outside Cairo. Most are stunned by the incredible size. Even if you are 100 meters away, you have to put your head back and take your view in the panorama to catch everything. These are the only…
Cagliari Attractions and Tourist
Attractions in Cagliari Most tourists from Norway come to Sardinia enough to enjoy the sun and beaches. But if you visit Cagliari then you should definitely bring some history, culture and various other attractions. Cagliari is not a small town at all. And this applies to both population and perimeter. So of course there are…
Cabo Verde 2010
Yearbook 2010 Cape Verde. When Cape Verde celebrated its 35th anniversary as an independent state in July, leaders were pleased that the state of the country is quite good. In this year’s so-called Ibrahim Index, compiled by the Somali businessman Mo Ibrahim’s Foundation for Better Leadership in Africa, according to softwareleverage, Cape Verde was ranked…
Burundi 2010
Yearbook 2010 Burundi. According to COUNTRYAAH, Burundi has a population of 11.18 million (2018). A number of general elections were held during the year. The hope was that the elections would strengthen democracy and consolidate the fragile peace of recent years. Instead, the political contradictions were sharply sharpened and the country appeared to be at…