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The Sahel region – a band of northern Africa stretching from Senegal to Sudan – is described as the new global epicentre of violent extremism. Chad, located in the Sahel, is one of the poorest countries in the world, and ticks all the boxes for a place that could easily be an incubator of Islamist terrorism. But, quite on the contrary, the threat of Islamist terrorism only reaches Chad from its neighbouring countries and not from within. So what makes Chad different? Helga Dickow explains how a combination of religious tolerance and authoritarianism appears to be holding Chadian society together.
Tinder is an app that’s become synonymous with modern dating, where users choose a match and start chatting. ChatGPT is an eerily confident new generation chatbot that uses artificial intelligence to come up with written lines you could use. Tinder users are turning to ChatGPT to make connections. So what happens when Tinder meets ChatGPT? Leah Davina Junck tackles this very contemporary dilemma.
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Helga Dickow, University of Freiburg
Chad fulfils all conditions to be affected by Islamist terrorism. But the threat so far comes from its neighbours, not from the inside.
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Leah Davina Junck, University of Cape Town
Confident chatbots could undermine trust and romance - but probably won’t. They may even enhance online dating.
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Husna Ismail, National Institute for Communicable Diseases; Olga Perovic, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
In hospitals, infection prevention and control cannot be met without a hygienically clean, and safe environment that has an adequate supply of clean running water.
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Festival Godwin Boateng, Columbia University; Jacqueline M Klopp, Columbia University
Vehicle import restrictions on their own are unlikely to yield meaningful, sustained public health and environmental gains in Africa.
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Merle A. Williams, University of the Witwatersrand
The pain of a brutal past and how to find healing is a theme shared between African Americans and black South Africans.
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Foued Nasri, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Étienne
Les paniques morales centrées sur l’islam et les banlieues et l’accès des personnalités d’extrême-droite aux médias favorisent la diffusion et la légitimation d’un discours anti-immigré.
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