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From Our Own Correspondent: The Lady and the Generals

06/02/2021

The Lady and the Generals

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Reflections on Aung San Suu Kyi's leadership after another military coup in Myanmar.

As Myanmar’s civilian leader faces house arrest again after another coup, her leadership is coming under scrutiny.

Aung San Suu Kyi looked set to put Myanmar on a new path after years of military dictatorship. But her refusal to acknowledge the army’s ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims damaged her standing abroad. And although her party won a landslide victory in elections last year, it may prove to have been a pyrrhic one, says Jonathan Head, after this week’s military coup.
Mexico's President, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, escaped the worst effects of Covid-19, but the same cannot be said for a vast numbers of his compatriots who are battling to find treatment. The president has now recovered, says Will Grant, but many of his citizens are still struggling to get adequate treatment.
In a court in Moscow this week, Russia’s opposition leader described President Vladimir Putin as “a poisoner” before he was sentenced to nearly three years in prison. Alexei Navalny’s arrest and sentencing have had an electrifying impact on the opposition movement in the country, as throngs of protestors took to the streets of Moscow, and beyond. Has the Kremlin finally overplayed its hand? asks Sarah Rainsford.
Our central Europe Correspondent Nick Thorpe has been following the Danube, upriver, from Romania to  Germany. One night, he accompanied a conservation team to go jackal howling in the biggest reed-beds on the planet. 
South Africa has been battling to control a new variant of Covid, detected in the country last year.  More than 45,000 people have died since the beginning of the pandemic. or those who are grieving, the customary burial process  has been curtailed.  Many are restricted to watching live streams of the funeral, while closest family grieve alone, says Pumza Fihlani 


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