by Frank Pobutkiewicz | Aug 12, 2021 | Topic Briefs
Background Djibouti sits at a critically important strategic point in the Horn of Africa. Its main port, the Port of Djibouti, lies on one of the busiest trade routes in the world– about a third of all merchant ships travel through or near its waters every day....
by Frank Pobutkiewicz | Dec 17, 2019 | Topic Briefs
Preliminary Analysis The Arab Republic of Egypt has had a historically stable economy and for most of 2000s had an increasingly growing economy. This was greatly due to the reforms that took place during the 1990s and continued to boost the economy through 2004 while...
by Frank Pobutkiewicz | Dec 16, 2019 | Topic Briefs
Constituency Member Party Faction Minister Portfolios Aiwo Constituency Milton Dube Non-partisan Government Aaron Cook Non-partisan Government Commerce, Industry & Environment; RONPhos; Nauru Rehabilitation Corporation Anabar Constituency Riddell Akua Naoero Amo...
by Frank Pobutkiewicz | Dec 16, 2019 | Topic Briefs
Introduction For the past ten to fifteen years, the Nauruan economy has been in serious trouble. The island’s only major natural resource has been phosphate, which results from thousands of years of bird dropping accumulations. Large-scale agriculture is impractical,...
by Frank Pobutkiewicz | Dec 16, 2019 | Topic Briefs
The government of Nauru is a parliamentary system with elements of a presidential system19, in that Nauru’s President, with powers normally found in a presidential system, is elected from among the Parliament and also has many powers of Prime Ministers in...
by Frank Pobutkiewicz | Dec 16, 2019 | Topic Briefs
Geography Nauru is an oval-shaped island located 26 miles south of the Equator. The island is completely surrounded by a reef; the perimeter of the island is a 500-1000 foot wide fertile coastal strip, followed by forested coral cliffs that rise to a central plateau...
