Timeline 2000-2010: Africa and Asia
2000 - Robert Mugabe celebrates two decades in power in Zimbabwe, but faces widespread unrest. His new constitution is defeated, leading to a decade of instability and isolation, targeted by the Western democracy movement, but no "color revolution", instead land reforms marred by violence.
2002 - Kenya elects opposition candidate Mwai Kibaki.
2004 - Sudan civil war becomes acute; Indian Ocean Tsunami in December kills 300,000.
2006 - Joseph Kabila, son of ex-president Laurent-Desire Kabila, wins Congo elections amidst civil war.
2007 - Jacob Zuma takes over from Thabo Mbeki as South African president.
2008 - Congo civil war intensifies; Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir becomes the first national leader to be indicted by the International Criminal Court; Nepals Maoists come to power, while India's gain strength.
2009 - Somalia civil war intensifies; Japan elects the Democratic Party, bringing to an end more than 50 years of rule by the pro-US Liberal Democratic Party; China weathers the financial storm and prepares to ascend to Number One in the world economy.
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