Bangladesh's PM Tarique Rahman opened the July Mass Uprising Memorial Museum at Hasina's former official residence in Dhaka on August 5, 2026; at the same time, exiled Hasina gave her first public address since ouster at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of South Asia in New Delhi, calling the 2024 uprising 'a planned regime change' and promising to return to Bangladesh in December 2026; Bangladesh banned domestic media from airing the speech, summoned India's acting High Commissioner, and called the event 'a clear affront'
A global wave of leaderless, social-media-organized youth protests against corruption and austerity, active in at least 14 countries from 2022 to 2026, with governments toppled in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Madagascar.
full dossier ›After 18 months of student-led protests, the president pledges to step down a year early, hints at becoming prime minister, and vows his bloc will win 'more convincingly than ever'
KHRC says six activists arrested at the June 25 commemoration were tortured in police custody and abandoned across Nairobi; Davis Lichuma, the last missing, was found on June 29 in critical condition at Kenyatta National Hospital, later transferred to Nairobi Women's Hospital
Families of the 60-plus victims who died when security forces fired on Parliament crowds in June 2024 were met with razor wire, roadblocks and teargas as they marched to demand accountability and full reparations
The repeating pattern in which IMF-backed fiscal consolidation and subsidy cuts in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and South Asia trigger street protests that destabilise governments implementing them.
East African nation of 56 million at high risk of debt distress, where a Gen Z uprising in 2024 forced Kenya's government to withdraw IMF-linked austerity legislation.
Mass civilian campaigns that force governments or heads of state from power without armed insurrection, a mechanism recurring across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East in 2024 to 2026.
Kenya's fifth president since 2022, facing recurring Gen Z protests over fiscal austerity, an open ICC crimes-against-humanity case, and a debt crisis central to East African politics.
How military coups and mass civilian pressure end governments outside elections, reshaping power across Africa, Europe and Asia in the 2020s.
A new finance law with bread VAT and phone-activation duty revives the 2024 grievance; for the first time Ruto signs before June 25, the date that has met him with protests every year
A KNCHR reparations framework verifies over 1,000 victims of 2017-2025 state violence, but bars looting and 'ordinary criminal' victims and withholds the names, drawing daily picketing
The NTA scraps the 2.27-million-candidate medical entrance after a paper leak; a satirical youth movement demanding the education minister's resignation gains 22 million followers in a month
CAPSAT, the unit that made Rajoelina in 2009, switches sides; Col. Randrianirina takes power, AU suspends the island, elections promised for 2027