A coup d'état was launched in Burkina Faso on 23 January 2022. President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré was reported to have been detained by the soldiers at the military camp. On 24 January, 2022 the military announced on television that Kaboré had been deposed from his position as president.
Former Chief-of-Staff of the Guyana Defence Force, Brigadier (retired) Mark Anthony Phillips has been sworn in as Prime Minister of Guyana. He served as the Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force from 2013 to 2016. Meanwhile, former President Bharrat Jagdeo has been sworn in as Vice President.
Sri Lanka’s former President Mahinda Rajapaksa was sworn in as the prime minister for the fourth time on August 9, 2020 after his party secured a landslide victory in parliamentary elections that cemented his family’s hold on power.
Mahinda Rajapaksa served as the island nations president from 2005 to 2015 and is highly popular among the ethnic majority Sinhalese for ending the country’s 25-year civil war against Tamil rebels in 2009.
He was first elected prime minister in 2004 and again appointed for brief periods in 2018 and 2019.
Sri Lanka Peoples Front the party led by the Rajapaksa brothers won 145 seats in the 225-member Parliament in the election held in August 2020.
He succeeds Danilo Medina of Liberation Party. Abinader’s Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) won the elections with 53% vote, while Gonzalo Castillo who was the candidate of the ruling PLD got 37.7%.
The 53-year old Luis Rodolfo Abinader was elected to the four-year term on July 5, which ended the 16-year run in power by the Center-Left Dominican Liberation Party (PLD). He had finished second in the 2016 presidential election.
A state-of-the-art liquid hydrogen tanker readied for loading in Australia on 21-01-2022 ahead of shipment to Japan, in what Australian PM described as a “world first” trial of the technology.
