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  • Ecuador: Integrity risks to increase following bribery claims as president seeks to carve out role
  • Guatemala: Contract risk to remain heightened amid continued corruption crackdown
  • Nicaragua: Fatal shootout highlights challenging security environment in autonomous region
  • Brazil: Police operations highlight transnational drug-trafficking schemes, reminder of security challenges
  • Georgia: Further violent incidents expected at protests over immigration; broader unrest, political instability unlikely
  • Mozambique: Sovereign risk likely to ease in long term despite delay in resumption of financial assistance
  • Nigeria: Suicide bombings near Maiduguri show growing frequency of Islamist militant attacks
  • Kenya: Tightening presidential race to increase likelihood of post-election violence
  • Romania: Case against prosecutor highlights persistent threat posed by corruption in judiciary
  • Peru: Nationwide strike highlights persistent threat of social unrest, especially for mining sector
  • Côte d'Ivoire: Non-payment, integrity risks to persist despite restructuring plans at state oil company
  • Afghanistan: Suicide bombing underscores HIGH security risk in capital, EXTREME risk nationwide
  • Tajikistan: Scenarios: Elite infighting increases
  • Mid East & N Africa: Attack on Israeli embassy in Jordan unlikely to do lasting damage to bilateral relations
  • Mid East & N Africa: Tensions over access to Jerusalem holy sites unlikely to increase security threats across region
  • Indonesia: Proposed law to weaken safeguards for sustainably produced palm oil
  • Gambia: Arrest of soldiers on mutiny charges illustrates hardening government stance towards internal security threats
  • Malaysia: Growing opposition co-operation unlikely to threaten ruling coalition in next elections
  • Philippines: Provocative attack on presidential security points to entrenched risks from communist insurgency
  • Tanzania: Arrest of high-profile opposition politician unlikely to prompt large-scale protests

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