Nile communities carefully monitored and recorded the river’s flow. Centuries later these records are still being used by water resource managers around the world to analyse unpredictable river flows.
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It won’t be easy to get the 11 countries in the basin to agree to a plan that avoids chronic water shortages in the future. Good information sharing and technical cooperation are critical.
The underlying issues of inequality, corruption and poverty are still dogging the region, ten years after the protests.
Emerging ‘mixed reality’ technology promises to bring history back to life.
In 2020, the #MeToo movement caused ripples in Turkey and Iran, renewing attention to gender-based violence and sexual assault.
Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol on Jan. 6, disrupting Congress’s certification of Joe Biden as president-elect. Coup experts explain this violent insurrection wasn’t technically a coup.
Treaties are needed to govern water resource allocation in the Nile basin region. For this to happen it’s critical to have accurate data on how much water there is.
America has historically been a strong Ethiopia ally, but this latest move to withhold foreign direct assistance has thrown its loyalty into question.
Despite previous threats by Egypt of military action, a war of over the Nile waters is not a serious possibility.
An historical perspective on the politics, dominance and conflicts over the dams on the Nile is useful.
Young people continue to find new ways to connect on social media, in spaces that are increasingly hard for governments to regulate.
Egypt wants a guarantee that the filling and operation of the Renaissance Dam will not affect the rights it got in 1959.
A number of programmes now exist that are helping to close the gender gap in African science, technology, engineering and maths.
Africa needs to be better prepared to deal with future pandemics. That should start with a re-assessment of how countries invest in – and support – local research.
More countries on the African continent must urgently get involved in clinical trials so that the data collected will accurately represent the continent at a genetic level.
The Nile Treaties prevent upstream countries from using the waters of the Nile without the consent of those downstream. This results in an Egyptian bias.
Mubarak used his relationship with the Copts to receive support for his rule, but he did not build institutions that could guarantee Christians constitutional rights.
The DNA of microbes and food trapped in the teeth can reveal information about diet and health.
Mubarak held power for three decades, on the foundation of a personality cult.
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ESRC PhD candidate, Lancaster University
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Visiting professor, Georgetown University
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Professor of International Relations, Lancaster University
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Professor of Communications, Howard University
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Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Aberdeen
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PhD candidate, University of the Pacific
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Professor, Weber State University
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Chair, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, and Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy, UMass Amherst
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Professor and Chair of Kinesiology and Health Science, Stephen F. Austin State University
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Director of Research, Africa Center for Strategic Studies, University of Maryland
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Associate Professor of History, University of Washington
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Lecturer, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University
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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Lecturer in Middle East Studies, Deakin University
