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Unsupervised news analysis for enhanced high‐frequency food insecurity assessment
Decision Sciences, Volume 55, Issue 6, Page 605-619, December 2024.Abstract This article introduces an artificial intelligence (AI)‐based system for forecasting food insecurity in data‐limited settings, employing unsupervised neural networks for topic modeling on news data. Unlike traditional methods, our system operates without relying on expert assumptions about food insecurity factors.
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KENYA’S OIL PIPELINE AND TERRORISM [PDF]
Journal of Defense Resources Management, 2014 The threat of Al-Shabaab and Al-Qaeda terrorist attacks on the critical infrastructure (oil pipeline) in Kenya has brought to the attention the strategic issue of the energy sector security, highlighting the potential vulnerabilities of this sector ...
E.O.S.ODHIAMBO, L.T MAITO, K. ONKWARE
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The problem of Islamic terrorism in Kenya in terms of regional Security in East Africa
Politeja, 2016 The purpose of this article is to present the issue of security in the region of East Africa, particularly in Kenya, in view of the development of the phenomenon of Islamic terrorism.
Joanna Bar
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American Ethnologist, Volume 51, Issue 4, Page 580-591, November 2024.Abstract Political risk forecasting is an industry that provides specialized analysis to a range of clients, including insurance companies, extractive industries, governments, defense ministries, and NGOs. Risk forecasters aim to help their clients mitigate risks by anticipating political developments that could threaten their investments and assets ...
Jon Schubert
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Analyzing the evolution of the threat al-Shabaab poses to Kenya post-Westgate attack period
Cogent Social SciencesIn the last decade, al-Shabaab has carried out at least thirty terrorist attacks in Kenya, killing hundreds of people and causing damage to public and private infrastructure.
Gábor Sinkó, János Besenyő
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PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 163-175, November 2024.Abstract The localization of humanitarian operations is commonly characterized as a return of ownership to local and national actors. Localization policies in Kenya have made refugee‐led community‐based organizations a viable alternative for humanitarian provisioning.
Stefan Millar
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Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 70, Issue 3, Page 379-401, September 2024.Australia's interactions with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), henceforth known as North Korea, have ebbed and flowed throughout their seventy‐five‐year history. In times of détente on the Korean Peninsula, Australia actively engaged North Korea and sought to facilitate its integration into the international system. However, during the
Jack D. Butcher
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Moments of suffering, pain and resilience: Somali refugees’ memories of home and journeys to exile
Cogent Social Sciences, 2017 This article is based on a collection of stories about victimisation and resilience, told by thirty Somali refugees in Cape Town, South Africa. It seeks to understand how this group of displaced persons remembers their experiences of homelessness in ...
Ernest A. Pineteh
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Terrorism and education: Evidence from instrumental variables estimators
Journal of Applied Econometrics, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 906-925, August 2024.Summary This paper estimates the effect of exposure to terrorist violence on education. Since terrorists may choose targets endogenously, we construct a set of novel instruments. To that end, we leverage exogenous variation from a local terrorist group's revenues and its affiliation with al‐Qaeda.
Marco Alfano, Joseph‐Simon Görlach
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