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Gen Z Uprisings Reshape Politics Across Asia, Africa and Latin America

Digital-native organizing channels youth anger over precarity, inequality, corruption into sustained street pressure.

Overview

  • The youth-led wave remains active from Indonesia and Nepal to Morocco, Madagascar and Peru, with decentralized protests coordinated largely online.
  • In Nepal, demonstrations forced the prime minister to resign and flee, a former Supreme Court chief now heads a transitional government, and general elections are scheduled for March 2026.
  • In Madagascar, the head of state fled abroad and the military seized power, with a pledge to hold democratic elections in two years.
  • In Peru, unrest contributed to the removal of the president, protests continue, and the successor is politically vulnerable.
  • Organizers rely on TikTok, Instagram, Telegram and Discord, and protesters have adopted the One Piece pirate flag as a shared symbol, as reports cite hundreds killed and thousands injured or detained across the various national crises.