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The world famous Serengeti-Mara plain – with its abundant wildlife and great wildebeest migration – is under threat. Farming, fences and growing human settlements are causing extreme changes to the habitat. Joseph Ogutu warns that more needs to be done to save the future of the region’s wildlife populations.
This weekend will mark 25 years since the Rwandan genocide. In just a few horrifying weeks more than 800 000 people were killed, most of them members of the Tutsi ethnic minority. The debate over whether radio and other media directly incited violence, or if they were a secondary driver, may never be settled, writes Amanda Grzyb.
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Joseph Ogutu, University of Hohenheim
Intense and extensive changes mean that the Serengeti-Mara area's wildlife has an unsure future.
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Amanda Grzyb, Western University
Although many years have passed, the Rwandan genocide still has much to teach us about the centrality of media in cases of state violence.
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Politics + Society
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Melinda Adams, James Madison University ; John Scherpereel, James Madison University
In many African states power is concentrated in the executive branch. That's why women's representation in cabinet matters.
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Loren B Landau, University of the Witwatersrand
The action plan offers no information about budgets, oversight, clear standards for measuring progress or accountability mechanisms.
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From our international editions
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Ihsan Yilmaz, Deakin University; Erdoan Shipoli, Georgetown University
Local elections in Turkey over the weekend saw a some key cities and towns slip away from the party of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's ruling party.
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Bin Li, University of Newcastle
On 27 March, India announced it had successfully conducted an anti-satellite missile test, Mission Shakti. India is now the fourth country in the world displaying this capability.
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Sandra Loesgen, Oregon State University
As antibiotic resistance increases globally, the heat is on to find new alternatives to treat infections. Chemists can get a head start by looking at compounds produced in nature by fishes' microbes.
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Signe Cohen, University of Missouri-Columbia
It might appear to many that atheism is a modern idea. However, in parts of Asia, particularly in India, atheism has been part of beliefs for thousands of years.
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En français
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Thierry Vircoulon, Sciences Po – USPC
Les accords de paix en Centrafrique signés jusqu’à présent sont des échecs calculés dans le cadre d’un jeu d’acteurs sur une scène de conflit bloqué.
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Michel Wieviorka, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (FMSH) – USPC
Le contexte qui autorise les rumeurs et le passage à l’acte est celui, avant tout, d’une fragmentation sociale et culturelle de notre pays, sur fond de crise du système politique.
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