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Commonwealth Update

Commonwealth Update

Pages 233-248 | Published online: 02 Jun 2010
 

Abstract

British politics was transformed by a hung parliament producing the first coalition government in 70 years. Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua died after months of incapacitation. In Jamaica, a growing diplomatic rift with the US forced Prime Minister Bruce Golding to allow the extradition of an alleged drug kingpin, sparking fierce street battles in downtown Kingston that left at least 50 dead, and Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa won a landslide victory amid persistent calls for investigations into alleged war crimes against Tamil civilians. A tribe in Vanuatu that worships the Duke of Edinburgh was awaiting his imminent return to their island to live in a hut with them.

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