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New tech tools are more intrusive and subtler than physical barriers. They invade migrants’ privacy and are a threat to personal security.
Our expert in disaster recovery and climate change adaptation calls for a longer-term response to conflict zones affected by severe flooding, such as Libya and Pakistan.
The persistence of the Al-Shabaab terror group has convinced Turkey it needs to provide more active military support in Somalia.
Will the Wagner Group under new leadership uphold the ruthless modus operandi that propelled it to the spotlight in Africa?
The Sahara Desert is green and vegetated every 21,000 years. A climate model shows why.
Libyan desert glass originated from the impact of a meteorite on the Earth’s surface.
A single International Finance Corporation project, on average, causes 7.6 additional armed conflict events in the year after it is introduced.
Climate models suggest North Africa will get drier in future. But its caves tell a different story.
One family’s ambition contributed to the fate of the city in eastern Libya.
Dams are usually built to withstand heavy rainfall or drought.
There are signs that the two rival governments are trying to work together in the disaster relief effort.
Even before Storm Daniel hit, Derna in Libya was in dire need of help. But it’s not always clear how best to help humanitarian organisations to deliver aid most effectively.
Better monitoring of groundwater is important for sustainable management.
Russia was using the mercenary group to further its foreign policy aims in west Africa. There’s no reason to think Prigozhin’s death will change that.
Niger had been seen as a relatively stable nation in an unstable region. The coup could spark fears in the West that the nation may align interests with Russia and the Wagner Group.
The former Italian prime minister died on June 12, 2023, at the age of 86. Throughout his terms in office he cultivated closer ties with the US – with mixed results.
NATO’s growing presence in the Pacific evokes a painful history that the western world has never confronted or fully acknowledged.
The number of refugees leaving Sudan is particularly high because Sudan was itself host to a million refugees.
There is a risk that Sudan’s conflict could spill over into neighbouring countries.
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Lecturer in Middle East Studies, Deakin University
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Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the South African Research Chair in International Law (SARCIL), University of Johannesburg
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Research Fellow, Coventry University
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Associate Professor, Colgate University
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Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Aberdeen
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Leader of Research Group “The Production of Knowledge on Migration” at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, Osnabrück University, Osnabrück University
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Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham
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Director of the Centre for Global Development and Professor in the School of Education, University of Aberdeen
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Senior Researcher, Political Science, University of Amsterdam
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Associate Professor of British Politics, University of Leeds
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Senior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Assistant Professor of Politics, Pomona College
