Regional Overview: South America
29 October-4 November 2022
Last week in South America, demonstration activity spiked in Brazil following the election victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva over incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro on 30 October, with Bolsonaro supporters setting up roadblocks on hundreds of major highways across the country across several days.…
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Regional Overview: United States and Canada
29 October-4 November 2022
Last week in the United States and Canada, demonstration activity decreased slightly in the United States while significantly increasing in Canada. In both the United States and Canada, labor-related demonstrations made up the largest share of events, while demonstrations in response to the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran made up the second-largest share.…
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Regional Overview: South Asia and Afghanistan
29 October-4 November 2022
Last week in South Asia and Afghanistan, anti-Taliban groups continued to target Taliban forces in Afghanistan, while women protested the Taliban government’s actions limiting women’s right to education. In Pakistan, an assassination attempt on former Prime Minister Imran Khan led to demonstrations across the country, while Baloch separatists and state forces engaged in clashes in Balochistan.…
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Regional Overview: Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia
29 October-4 November 2022
Last week in Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia, Ukrainian forces continued counteroffensive operations and targeted the Russian Black Sea fleet in Crimea amid the ongoing Russian military invasion of Ukraine. Along the Armenia-Azerbaijan border, ceasefire violations continued to decrease.…
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Regional Overview: Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean
29 October-4 November 2022
Last week in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, violence against civilians remained at heightened levels in Haiti, Mexico, Honduras, and Trinidad and Tobago. In Haiti, the kidnapping and murder of five members of the Base 47 organization by suspected police officers triggered demonstrations, during which a journalist was killed.…
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Regional Overview: East Asia Pacific
29 October-4 November 2022
Last week in the East Asia Pacific region, a clash between the Myanmar military and the United League of Arakan/Arakan Army (ULA/AA) in Myanmar’s Rakhine state left several civilians dead. Fighting continued between the military and the combined forces of the Kachin Independence Organization/Kachin Independence Army (KIO/KIA) and the People’s Defense Force (PDF) in Kachin state, while military shelling targeting civilians continued across several states and regions.…
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Regional Overview: Middle East
29 October-4 November 2022
Last week in the Middle East, political violence reached its highest levels in Yemen since the end of the UN-mediated truce on 2 October. In Syria, local gunmen clashed with Islamic State (IS) militants in Dara city, while state forces conducted large-scale counter-IS operations in Iraq.…
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Regional Overview: Africa
29 October-4 November 2022
Weekly reports on the latest conflict developments in Mozambique and Ethiopia are made available by the Cabo Ligado and Ethiopia Peace Observatory projects, respectively.
Last week in Africa, deadly armed confrontations escalated between Al Qaeda-affiliated Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) and the Islamic State Sahel Province (IS Sahel) in Mali, while JNIM continued their countrywide offensive in Burkina Faso.…
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