Global Hotspots: Q3 Forecast (Part 2) – Bolivia, Sahel, Sudan, Morocco, DRC

In this second episode reviewing our recently published 2026 Q3 Forecast report, our team focuses on Bolivia, Sudan, and the DRC among some of the countries not covered in Part 1, providing an outlook on the domestic and international situation related to these countries going into the third quarter.

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Photo: A woman holds a Wiphala flag during a meeting of “Ponchos Rojos” leaders to discuss the future of protests ongoing for more than six weeks in Tilata, La Paz department, Bolivia, on June 18, 2026. For weeks, protesters demanding that US-backed conservative President Rodrigo Paz’s fledgling government address a deep economic crisis, while others called for his resignation, have marched and set up roadblocks, bringing Bolivia to a near standstill, driving up food and fuel prices and causing shortages of basic goods. (Photo by AIZAR RALDES / AFP via Getty Images)