Top 10 Most Well Trained Special Forces on Earth

Top 10 Most Well Trained Special Forces on Earth

Fact - Nearly ALL the worlds Special Forces base their military model on the British SAS. In fact, the USA's Delta Force was set up after the founder spent time attached to the SAS. The Delta Forces even uses an SAS organisational structure using troops and squadrons. It's often remarked that the sand beret is also worn by US Rangers but this was a recen ...

Cameroon Overview

Cameroon Overview

Cameroon is a diverse, resource-rich, majority Francophone country bordering the Gulf of Guinea. President Paul Biya, age 86, is one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders. He was reelected in 2018 and has no clear successor. Cameroon faces security and humanitarian challenges on three fronts: the Nigerian-origin Boko Haram insurgency in the north, a separa ...

Kampong Chhnang Province

Kampong Chhnang Province

Kampong Chhnang is located northwestern Cambodia, 91 km from Phnom Penh on National Road No. 5. The province is bordered by Kampong Thom to the north, Kampong Cham to the east, Kampong Speu to the south and Pursat to the west. Attached to the great Tonle Sap Lake, the province has a natural drainage system through rivers, canals and streams that create f ...

Zimbabwe Country Overview

Zimbabwe Country Overview

Zimbabwe is a semi-presidential republic in Southern Africa.1 President Robert Mugabe and his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) have been in power since independence in 1980.2 The 2008 general election process was condemned internationally due to irregularities and widespread violence against members of the opposition, which led t ...

Country Profile: Zambia

Country Profile: Zambia

Zambia has made some gains in growing its economy and improving its health outcomes. However, an elevated diseases burden, under resourced health system and poor infrastructure in its rural areas has stunted its progress in reducing the spread of HIV, malaria, and child and maternal mortality. According to the World Health Organization, children in Zambi ...

YEMEN Country Brief

YEMEN Country Brief

In 2015, Yemen spiralled into civil and regional war between Houthi forces and President Abd Rabbu Mansur Hadi’s government. This led to the overthrow of the government and a Saudi-led counter-offensive. The ongoing fighting, combined with a Saudi-imposed blockade that enforced an arms embargo, have created a humanitarian emergency, pushing Yemen to the ...

Western Sahara Operation

Western Sahara Operation

Promote and facilitate voluntary repatriation to the Territory of all Western Saharan refugees found eligible to participate in the referendum (along with their family members), as prescribed by the UN Settlement Plan for Western Sahara (UN Settlement Plan), following the publication of the voters’ lists and completion of other activities during the tran ...

Venezuela 2016 Country Review

Venezuela 2016 Country Review

Venezuela is located in northern South America, bordering the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean. The area became a Spanish colony in the 1520s. In 1830 Venezuela seceded from Gran Colombia (including the present-day Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador) and became an independent republic. Much of Venezuela's 19th-century history was characterized by pe ...

Country Profile: Vietnam

Country Profile: Vietnam

Origins: The Vietnamese trace the origins of their culture and nation to the fertile plains of the Red River Delta in northern Vietnam. After centuries of developing a civilization and economy based on the cultivation of irrigated rice, in the tenth century the Vietnamese began expanding southward in search of new rice lands. Until the mid-nineteenth cen ...

Country Profile – Vanuatu Islands

Country Profile – Vanuatu Islands

Vanuatu is a country in the South Pacific Ocean composed of about 80 islands of which only 65 are inhabited. The country has total area of 12 190 km2 . There are six main island groups in the country comprising the country’s six provinces Malampa, Penama, Sanma, Shefa, Tafea and Torba. Only 12 islands are considered significant in terms of their economy ...

OECD Territorial Reviews Ukraine

OECD Territorial Reviews Ukraine

At the beginning of this new millennium, regional economies are confronting momentous changes. The globalisation of trade and economic activity is increasingly testing their ability to adapt and maintain their competitive edge. There is a tendency for income and performance gaps to widen between and within regions, and the cost of maintaining social cohe ...

Country Profile: Turkmenistan

Country Profile: Turkmenistan

In the eighth century A.D., Turkic-speaking Oghuz tribes moved from Mongolia into present-day Central Asia. Part of a powerful confederation of tribes, these Oghuz formed the ethnic basis of the modern Turkmen population. In the tenth century, the name “Turkmen” was first applied to Oghuz groups that accepted Islam and began to occupy present-day Turkmen ...

Tonga Overview

Tonga Overview

Tonga is a constitutional monarchy with two levels of government, local and national. There is no constitutional provision for local government and the main legislative texts that cover local government are the Fonos Act 1988 and the District and Town Officers Act 1988. The 23 district officers and 156 town officers are elected by popular vote every thre ...

Country Profiles: Tajikistan

Country Profiles: Tajikistan

Early History: Iranian peoples such as the Soghdians and the Bactrians are the ethnic forbears of the modern Tajiks. They have inhabited parts of Central Asia for at least 2,500 years, assimilating with Turkic and Mongol groups. Between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C., present-day Tajikistan was part of the Persian Achaemenian Empire, which was conqu ...

Crooked Island - Bahamas Government

Crooked Island - Bahamas Government

CROOKED ISLAND Crooked Island is a place for relaxing and doing absolutely nothing. It is a very secluded island with an abundance of bird life that thrives on the cliffs and reefs.

Andros - Bahamas Government

Andros - Bahamas Government

The Department of Statistics extends sincere, heartfelt gratitude to the many individuals and organizations that assisted and contributed significantly to the success of this census. The generous support and efforts of the following persons, committees and organizations were vital to the planning, execution and successful completion of the Census exercis ...