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Malaysia Quick reference
A Guide to Countries of the World (4 ed.)
...misconduct. And the main opposition group, the Parti Islam Se-Malaysia ( PAS ), seemed to be gaining ground. Nevertheless, Mahathir remained in control until he stepped down after 22 years in 2003 . His chosen replacement as prime minister was Abdullah Badawi whose position was confirmed with a striking victory in the parliamentary elections in 2004 , when the UMNO-dominated Barisan Nasional ( BN ) coalition gained 90 per cent of the seats. This was a crushing rejection of PAS fundamentalism. In the March 2008 elections, however, UMNO performed badly...
Burkina Faso Quick reference
A Guide to Countries of the World (4 ed.)
...Assembly ( 2002–12 ), but left the ruling CDP in 2014 , founding the People’s Movement for Progress party. Having been relatively immune from the impact of Islamic fundamentalism, there was shock in the country when al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb attacked a hotel in the capital, killing thirty people, in January 2016 . Further attacks have followed and a local Islamist group, Ansarul Islam, has become increasingly active in the north of the country. In 2019, two foreign aid workers vanished and a Canadian geologist was murdered. Increasing concern...
Uzbekistan Quick reference
A Guide to Countries of the World (4 ed.)
...China. In 2014 his billionaire daughter, Gulnara, once seen as a successor, was placed under house arrest on charges of corruption and jailed the following year. She received a further jail sentence after her father died. Karimov, who argued that his rule ensured that Islamic fundamentalism did not establish itself in Uzbekistan, maintained his dictatorial rule up to his death in 2016 . He was succeeded by his former prime minister, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who gained 89 per cent of the vote in an election at the end of 2016 . Mirziyoyev began by continuing the...
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