Zimbabwe 2000
Yearbook 2000 Zimbabwe. A proposal for a new constitution was rejected in a referendum in February. The Constitution would have given President Robert Mugabe increased […]
Month: March 2021
Zambia 2000
Yearbook 2000 Zambia. Environment Minister Ben Mwila in January accused President Frederick Chiluba of being authoritarian and undemocratic, and the ruling Multi-Party Democracy Movement (MMD) […]
Yemen 2000
Yearbook 2000 Yemen and Saudi Arabia signed a permanent border agreement on June 12 to end 65 years of conflict between the countries. Under the […]
Western Sahara 2000
Yearbook 2000 Western Sahara. Representatives of the Western Saharan organization Polisario, who are fighting for independence from Morocco, and for the Moroccan government held direct […]
Vietnam 2000
Yearbook 2000 Vietnam. Twenty-five years after the end of the Vietnam War, there was a clear rapprochement between Vietnam and the former enemy of the […]
Venezuela 2000
Yearbook 2000 Venezuela. With the July 30 elections, popularly called las mega-elecciones when no fewer than 5,000 offices at national, state, and municipal levels would […]
Vatican City 2000
Yearbook 2000 Vatican City. Pope John Paul II wrote Catholic Church history when he held a reconciliation speech in March at St. Peter’s Church in […]
Vanuatu 2000
Yearbook 2000 Vanuatu. The annual Geopolitical Drugs Watch report found in April that Vanuatu has become one of the world’s most important money laundering tax […]
Uzbekistan 2000
Yearbook 2000 Uzbekistan. President Islam Karimov was re-elected in January for a new five-year term. According to official data, he received close to 92% of […]
Uruguay 2000
Yearbook 2000 Uruguay. In March, newly elected President Jorge Batlle took office. One of his main priorities has been the structure of the free trade […]