UN To The Rescue?

January 2008 | Ratings Update

A British teacher, Gillian Gibbons, was jailed for 15 days in November 2007 following complaints that she had insulted Islam by allowing her pupils to name a teddy bear Mohammed. The incident caused a furore in the British press and was dubbed 'teddygate'. Risk was posed to foreign relations with the UK, but this diminished following the presidential pardoning granted by Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, which allowed Gibbons to return to the UK, having had her sentence commuted. The country's 'international constraints' score in our short-term political risk ratings remains at 3/10; the state faces acute pressure from the international

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