1998 in politics

none June 2025 This is a list of events relating to politics in 1998. in politics 19th century 20th century 21st century 1992 1993 1994 1997 1996 1997 1998 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990–19991990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Events January January 11 - 103 people are murdered in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria1998-01-11 1998: 100 die in massacre in Algeria https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/11/newsid_4075000/4075725.stm 2025-06-27 en-GB January 12 - 19 European nations in Paris sign a treating prohibiting human cloningEuropean Nations Sign a Treaty Opposing Human Cloning EBSCO Research Starters https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/politics-and-government/european-nations-sign-treaty-opposing-human-cloning 2025-06-27 www.ebsco.com en January 17 - U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky is exposed by the Drudge Report1998-01-17 Original Drudge Reports Of Monica Lewinsky Scandal - AustralianPolitics.com https://australianpolitics.com/1998/01/17/original-drudge-reports-lewinsky-scandal.html/ 2025-06-21 en-US January 30 - Guinea-Bissau's defense minister announces the suspension of the Chief of Staff of the armed forces, Brigadier-General Ansumane Mané fordereliction of dutyMendy Peter Karibe https://books.google.com/books?id=NbJ8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA93 Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau Lobban,Jr Richard A. 2013-10-17 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 978-0-8108-8027-6 en February February 28 - British physician Andrew Wakefield publishes a later-discredited study, suggesting a link between the MMR vaccine and autism, leading to the growth of the anti-vaccine movement and the resurgence of measles in several countriesBoseley Sarah 2018-08-21 Resurgence of deadly measles blamed on low MMR vaccination rates https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/20/low-mmr-uptake-blamed-for-surge-in-measles-cases-across-europe 2025-06-21 The Guardian 0261-3077 February 28 - The attacks on Likoshan and Çirez mark the beginning of the Kosovo WarKafexholli Halim 2021-03-01 Deadly Provocation: How Village Killings Kindled Kosovo's Resistance https://balkaninsight.com/2021/03/01/deadly-provocation-how-village-killings-kindled-kosovos-resistance/ 2025-06-27 Balkan Insight en-US March March 10 - Suharto is re-elected president of Indonesia by the People's Consultative AssemblyDelapan Calon Wapres Itu: di Antara Pujian dan Kritik http://www.tempointeraktif.com/ang/min/02/49/utama.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20070927200843/http://www.tempointeraktif.com/ang/min/02/49/utama.htm 2007-09-27 2025-06-27 www.tempointeraktif.com March 11 - 1998 Danish general election: Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen is re-elected in a very close vote requiring multiple recountsBBC News Europe Danish election cliffhanger https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/64794.stm 2025-06-21 news.bbc.co.uk March 26 - 47 people, including 27 children, are murdered in the Oued Bouaïcha massacre in AlgeriaGARÇON José 45 personnes tuées en Algérie. Ce massacre fait craindre un regain de violence à dix jours du ramadan. https://www.liberation.fr/planete/1998/12/10/45-personnes-tuees-en-algerie-ce-massacre-fait-craindre-un-regain-de-violence-a-dix-jours-du-ramadan_255653/ 2025-06-27 Libération fr April April 10 - The Good Friday Agreement in signed between most of Northern Ireland's parties and the Irish and British governments, ending the majority of the violence of the Troubles and outlining devolution for Northern IrelandBBC - History - The Good Friday Agreement https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/events/good_friday_agreement 2025-06-21 www.bbc.co.uk en-GB April 20 - The German far-left militant group Red Army faction are (allegedly) dissolvedGohr Andreas 1970-01-01 Rote Armee Fraktion Infopage https://www.rafinfo.de/archiv/raf/raf-20-4-98.php 2025-06-27 www.rafinfo.de de April 23 - 19 Kosovo Liberation Army fighters attempting to smuggle weapons into Kosovo are killed in the Albanian–Yugoslav border ambushhttps://books.google.com/books?id=-X4hAQAAIAAJ Kosovo: The Evidence 1998 Amnesty International 978-1-873328-31-6 en May May 4 - Anti-government riots targeting ethnic Chinese Indonesians break out in IndonesiaSensenig Victor J December 2008 Anti-Chinese Violence in Indonesia, 1996–1999 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-east-asian-studies/article/abs/antichinese-violence-in-indonesia-19961999-by-jemma-purdey-honolulu-university-of-hawaii-press-2006-300-pp-2800-paper/8824507D5FF14BF60613EBBDB697B8E0 Journal of East Asian Studies en 8 3 10.1017/S1598240800006561 1598-2408 subscription May 6 - Beginning of the Eritrean-Ethiopean War with the entry of a large Eritrean mechanized force into the Badme region along the Eritrea-Ethiopia borderDowden Richard 2 June 2000 There are no winners in this insane and destructive war http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/there-are-no-winners-in-this-insane-and-destructive-war-714305.html https://web.archive.org/web/20081212163222/http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/there-are-no-winners-in-this-insane-and-destructive-war-714305.html 2008-12-12 2025-06-27 www.independent.co.uk en May 13 - The Ethiopean parliament declares war on Eritrea, following the failure of international efforts to dissolve the conflictBBC News Africa Eritrea: 'Ethiopia pursues total war' https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/107985.stm 2025-06-27 news.bbc.co.uk May 21 - Resignation of Indonesian president Suharto and collapse of his New Order regime following protests and riots beginning on May 4. Suharto's Vice President, B. J. Habibie, becomes Indonesia's third president May 28 - Responding to a series of Indian nuclear tests, Pakistan explodes conducts its first nuclear test in Balochistan leading to US-led economic sanctionsPakistan's Nuclear Weapons Program - 1998: The Year of Testing https://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Pakistan/PakTests.html 2025-06-27 nuclearweaponarchive.org June June 1 - The European Central Bank is established, replacing the European Monetary InstituteEconomic and Monetary Union (EMU) 28 October 2022 https://www.ecb.europa.eu/ecb/history-arts-culture/history/emu/html/index.en.html June 5 - The Eritrean Air Force bomb Ethiopia's Tigray region, targeting the capital of Mekelle, following Ethiopian airstrikes on Asmara International Airport using bombs and napalmWrong Michela https://books.google.com/books?id=Yz2kmFZqU1MC I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation 2009-10-13 Harper Collins 978-0-06-186066-9 en June 7 - Beginning of the Guinea-Bissau Civil War as former Brigadier-General Ansumane Mané leads a coup attempt against the government of President João Bernardo VieiraECOMOG Operations in Guinea Bissau (June 1998-April 1999) https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/guinea-bissau-2.htm 2025-06-28 www.globalsecurity.org June 10 - The Organisation of African Unity resolves to cease compliance with certain punitive sanctions applied by the UN Security Council against LibyaBBC NEWS Special Report 1998 12/98 Lockerbie The trail to trial https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1998/08/98/lockerbie/156144.stm 2025-06-28 news.bbc.co.uk June 19 - Failure of an OAU-mandated mediation mission in Ouagadougou to end the Eritrean-Ethiopian War through the proposed US-Rwanda peace plan1998-07-03 Ethiopia-Eritrea: New peace efforts amid claims of civilian abuses - Eritrea ReliefWeb https://reliefweb.int/report/eritrea/ethiopia-eritrea-new-peace-efforts-amid-claims-civilian-abuses 2025-06-27 reliefweb.int en June 26 - The United Nations Security Council adopt Resolution 1177 condemning the Eritrea-Ethiopia conflict, and demanding a ceasefireNew Straits Times - Google News Archive Search https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zm40AAAAIBAJ&sjid=3xQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6630,3627794&dq= 2025-06-27 news.google.com June 30 - Joseph Estrada, Vice President of the Philippines, is sworn in as President July July 17 - The International Criminal Court is established by the Rome Statute, to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggressionRome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998 https://legal.un.org/icc/statute/99_corr/cstatute.htm 2025-06-28 legal.un.org July 26 - In Guinea-Bissau, following mediation from the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, the government and rebels agree to implement a truceOlarinmoye Omobolaji 2005 Civil war in Guinee-Bissau: June 1998- May 1999 https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=vkw51jgAAAAJ&citation_for_view=vkw51jgAAAAJ:ULOm3_A8WrAC 2025-06-28 scholar.google.com July 31 - The Government of Wales Act receives royal assent, giving effect to the Welsh devolution referendum of 1997Government of Wales Act 1998 Law Wales https://law.gov.wales/constitution-and-government/constitution-and-devolution/government-wales-act-1998 2025-06-27 law.gov.wales August August 2 - The Second Congo War begins following Congolese president Laurent-Désiré Kabila turning against his former allies in Rwanda and Uganda, who back a Rally for Congolese Democracy and Movement for the Liberation of the Congo led uprising: 5.4 million people die before it ends in 2003, making it the bloodiest war since World War II to dateStearns Jason K. http://archive.org/details/dancingingloryof0000stea Dancing in the glory of monsters : the collapse of the Congo and the great war of Africa 2011 New York : PublicAffairs Internet Archive 978-1-58648-929-8 August 7 - US embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya are perpetrated by Al-Queda, killing more than 220 peopleLifting the Veil — Understanding the Roots of Islamic Militancy Harvard International Review http://hir.harvard.edu/religion/lifting-the-veil?page=0,1 https://web.archive.org/web/20110928085258/http://hir.harvard.edu/religion/lifting-the-veil?page=0,1 2011-09-28 2025-06-28 hir.harvard.edu en August 15 - The Omagh bombing is carried out in Northern Ireland by the Real Irish Republican ArmyBBC News NORTHERN IRELAND Omagh coroner rules on unborn twins https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/946469.stm 2025-06-28 news.bbc.co.uk August 17 - Beginning of the 1998 Russian financial crisis as the Russian government devalues the ruble and declares a moratorium on the repayment of foreign debtGlobal Waves of Debt: Causes and Consequences https://www.worldbank.org/en/research/publication/waves-of-debt 2025-06-28 World Bank en September September 5 - North Korea's constitution is amended and the late Kim Il Sung is enshrined as the eternal PresidentKristof Nicholas D. 1998-09-07 Death Doesn't End Rule of Kim Il Sung, 'Eternal President' https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/07/world/death-doesn-t-end-rule-of-kim-il-sung-eternal-president.html 2025-06-28 The New York Times en-US 0362-4331 September 8 - The Real IRA announce a ceasefire1998-09-08 1998: Real IRA announce ceasefire https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/8/newsid_2503000/2503633.stm 2025-07-28 en-GB September 12 - The Cuban Five intelligence agents are arrested in MiamiThe Cuban Five, Who are they, and why are they held in US Prisons for so long https://cubasinynjcoalition.org/cinco-cubanos-cuban-five/ 2025-06-28 en September 29 - US Congress passes the Iraq Liberation Act, supporting the efforts of Iraqi opposition groups to remove Saddam Hussein from officeIRAQ LIBERATION ACT OF 1998 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-105publ338/html/PLAW-105publ338.htm 2025-06-27 www.govinfo.gov October October 2 - A United Nations court finds Rwandan politician Jean-Paul Akayesu guilty of nine counts of genocide, marking the first time that the 1948 Genocide Convention is enforced14 May 2008 Rwanda: First Genocide Convict Defends Ex-Top MRND Party Leaders https://allafrica.com/stories/200805150129.html allAfrica October 9 - The Constitutional Court of South Africa strikes down anti-sodomy laws, the first in a series of rulings advancing LGBT rights in South AfricaNational Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality and Another v Minister of Justice and Others (CCT11/98) [1998] ZACC 15; 1999 (1) SA 6; 1998 (12) BCLR 1517 (9 October 1998) https://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZACC/1998/15.html 2025-07-28 www.saflii.org October 20 - President Joao Vieira declares a unilateral cease-fire in the Guinea-Bissau Civil War following further outbreaks of fightingBBC News Africa Guinea-Bissau president calls cease-fire https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/198698.stm 2025-06-28 news.bbc.co.uk October 20 - Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi claims to have proof that Britain attempted to assassinate him November November 1 - At a peace conference held by the Economic Community of West African States, the rebels and the government of the Guinea-Bissau sign a peace accord November 19 - The Scotland Act receives royal assent, giving effect to the Scottish devolution referendum of 1997Expert Participation Scotland Act 1998 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/46/contents https://web.archive.org/web/20250619084544/https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/46/contents 2025-06-19 2025-06-27 www.legislation.gov.uk en December December 3 - An official of Guinea Bissau’s military junta, Francisco Fadul, is appointed Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau1998-12-03 Rebel candidate appointed country's new prime minister https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/report/3970/guinea-bissau-rebel-candidate-appointed-country%E2%80%99s-new-prime-minister 2025-06-28 www.thenewhumanitarian.org en December 6 - Hugo Chávez is elected President of VenezuelaArchives L. A. Times 1998-12-07 Chavez Wins Venezuela Election Convincingly https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-dec-07-mn-51505-story.html 2025-06-21 Los Angeles Times en-US December 21 - The United Nations Security Council adopt Resolution 1216, calling for the immediate establishment of a national unity government in Guinea-BissauUnited Nations. 1964 UN monthly chronicle. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000523385 United Nations Monthly Chronicle 12 v 0041-5367 References Category:Politics by year Category:1990s in politics Category:20th century in politics Category:1998 Category:1998-related lists