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'
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.
full dossier ›Cubans in Old Havana and Guanabacoa banged pots and chanted against the government on July 12, five years after the July 11, 2021 protests swept dozens of Cuban cities; Cuban security forces deployed in Havana; residents in Guanabacoa staged demonstrations after more than 33 consecutive hours without electricity; US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and UN Ambassador Mike Waltz each issued statements calling for the release of more than 800 political prisoners held since 2021; Cuban Americans held a Liberation Day rally in Miami
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'
Egypt-based activist Abdul Hamid Abdul Ati called for a 4 PM rally across more than a dozen Gaza locations on June 26; Hamas placed security on high alert and mosque preachers urged non-attendance
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.
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.
How military coups and mass civilian pressure end governments outside elections, reshaping power across Africa, Europe and Asia in the 2020s.
Defence, education and labour ministers gone in ten days; ~100 roadblocks, fuel and food shortages, and calls for the new president to quit