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All the anti-immigrant rabble-rousing appears to be backfiring.
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How can the International Criminal Court serve justice in a climate of intense rumour and bitter suspicion?
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Unlike the third-term fever afflicting the Great Lakes region, Rwanda is not mired in corruption and stagnation. Rwandans were fearful and anxious about what might happen after 2017 without Kagame.
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Science Guide & Visiting Researcher, Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, University of Cambridge
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Collaborator, Centre for Sustainable Development, University of Cambridge
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Newton International Fellow, University of Cambridge
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Cambridge
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Lecturer in Strategy, Cambridge Judge Business School
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Hatton Professor of Climate Law, University of Cambridge
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Assistant Professor in Sociology, University of Cambridge
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Research Associate, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge
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Researcher, Public Health, University of Cambridge
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Senior Project Manager, Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge
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PhD Candidate, Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
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Doutoranda em Geografia, University of Cambridge
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PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge
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Fellow of the Cambridge Centre for Geopolitics and Centre Researcher at the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG), University of Cambridge
