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Nepal Politics in 2026: A Gen Z Uprising, a New Government, and a Young PM

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Published: July 21, 2026 Overview Nepal remade its politics in six months. A youth-led uprising in September 2025 toppled the government of Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli, an interim administration under the country’s first woman prime minister organized snap elections, and in March 2026 voters handed a four-year-old party a landslide and made a 35-year-old … Read more

Madagascar Politics in 2026: A Gen Z Uprising, a Colonel, and a Transition

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Published: July 21, 2026 Overview Madagascar spent late 2025 losing a president and gaining a military ruler. A youth-led protest movement over chronic water and electricity shortages grew into a national revolt, an elite army unit switched sides, and President Andry Rajoelina fled the country in October 2025. A colonel now runs the island under … Read more