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Leaders from 15 Asia-Pacific nations formed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership. Peru’s interim president, Manuel Merino, resigned on Sunday after violent protests. Iran plans first complete lockdown as COVID-19 infections and deaths spiral out of control.

Conditions Updates

 rundown of important global developments in markets, in business, and region-by-region, as well as statistical risk assessments by country and by US state. [Flashpoint Daily Situation Reports]

2020 Elections: Democracy in Africa

With the latest results from Ivory Coast and Guinea, two more African countries have been added to the “limited or eliminated” term limits category. Elections are approaching in other states as Ghana, Niger, Uganda, Central African Republic and Burkina Faso will all go to the polls over the next few months, and concerns have already been piqued that some of these coming elections will also feature opposition suppression, voting irregularities, and violence.

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