The prototype is South Africa, a prosperous country with a long history of controlled wildlife management and 90 percent of its elephants living in a single national park.

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Over the years, Mr. Sharif, 63, has followed the developments in Turkey another country with a long history of military interference in civilian politics where the Islamist AKP party of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has defanged the military's power in part through economic growth.

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But what does this mean, in practice, in a country with such a long history of autocracy?

ECONOMIST: Ethiopia