Le silence sur l'état de santé réel du Président Ali Bongo reflète celui d'un pays aux apparences trompeuses.
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Ali Bongo seems to have won Gabon’s elections. Yet his contested “victory” has radically changed the political field in this soft democracy, one of Africa’s richest and most stable.
Trois présidents depuis l’indépendance en 1960 ; la stabilité politique de cet État faiblement peuplé d’Afrique centrale a longtemps reposé sur un système de redistribution aujourd’hui en panne.
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Over five million students of the approximately 11 million students in community colleges nationwide suffer from a mental health problem.
The Hollywood flick recalls subprime’s role in the 2008 financial crisis, but, by helping more low-income households buy a home, the loans can help ease the affordability crisis and homelessness.
The discovery of Homo naledi has been a social media sensation, recording an extraordinary number of views – more than 170,000 – for a scientific paper.
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Associate Professor of Management and Human Resources, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Professor of Political Science, Director of the Elections Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Staff Attorney, State Democracy Research Initiative, University of Wisconsin Law School, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Staff Attorney, State Democracy Research Initiative, University of Wisconsin Law School, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Associate Chair and Professor of Genetics and Epigenetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Project Assistant at the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Executive Director of the Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Associate Professor of Adult and Higher Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Assistant Professor oif Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Professor of Rhetoric, Politics & Culture, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Professor of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Professor of Animal and Dairy Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Professor of Higher Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
