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Gambia has a new democratically elected government which is why European countries are wanting to increase the number of migrant returnees. But is the country geared up to receive them? Franzisca Zanker explores how tenable it is to send them home.
Women played decisive roles in the Russian Revolution, which marks its centenary this year. Polish-born German philosopher, Rosa Luxemburg, was one of them. Vashna Jagarnath explores Luxemburg’s contribution to the momentous events of the time, including her role as an activist in the labour movement in Germany as well as her theoretical work on the role of imperialism.
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Gambian refugees on a wooden boat. Thousands of Africans make the perilous journey across the Mediterranean each year hoping for a better life in Europe.
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Franzisca Zanker, Freiburg University
Gambia became a symbol for democratic change earlier this year when former dictator Yahya Jammeh was peacefully ousted through the ballot box. Now Europe wants its Gambian immigrants to return home.
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Arts + Culture
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Vashna Jagarnath, Rhodes University
If Rosa Luxemburg and her comrades had been successful with their German revolution in 1919, history would most probably have taken a very different course, avoiding the rise of fascism in Europe.
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Politics and Society
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Hendrik Kraetzschmar, University of Leeds; Barbara Zollner, Birkbeck, University of London
Personal freedoms and self-expression have come under attack.
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Science + Technology
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Brenda Wingfield, University of Pretoria; Kit Vaughan, University of Cape Town
South Africa's National Research Foundation will dramatically scale back “incentive” funding to rated researchers, both those who already have a rating and those who will be rated in the future.
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From our international editions
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Jacqueline Litzgus, Laurentian University
Poachers are bringing some turtle populations to the edge of extinction.
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David Morley, Sheffield Hallam University
One in five children are now obese by the time they turn 11.
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Andrew McGovern, University of Surrey
Type 3c diabetes is quite common, but most doctors are missing it.
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Jessica Trisko Darden, American University School of International Service
President Duterte declared martial law back in March to aid the fight against Islamic militants. Many fear he will continue using this power.
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