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Khartoum War's echoes in oil and energy sectors: Economic and environmental implications for Sudan and South Sudan

open access: yesHeliyon
The energy sector is a main driver of African growth, particularly in regions with geopolitical conflicts like Sudan and South Sudan. The oil and gas industry notably influences these regions' economy, politics, humanitarian situation, and social ...
Mohamed Elnourani   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Book review: dealing with government in South Sudan (2015) by Cherri Leonardi [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Diana Felix da Costa argues that this book offers valuable insights into processes of state formation and state-society relations across South Sudan as well as in East ...
Felix da Costa, Diana
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Climate Vulnerability and Renewable Energy Consumption: The Moderating Role of Financial Development

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the nexus between climate vulnerability (CVUL) and renewable energy consumption (RECO) and tests the moderating effect of financial development (FD) on this relationship. The analysis is, particularly, relevant for the 162 panel countries observed between 1995 and 2022, which face diverse climate risks and exhibit ...
Sorin Gabriel Anton
wiley   +1 more source

Overcoming barriers? The mixed results of social innovation accelerator programs for women entrepreneurs

open access: yesStrategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Entrepreneurship accelerators are increasingly promoted as structural interventions to close gender gaps, yet studies have not established a differential impact of participation for women. This prior evidence—drawn from high‐tech, male‐dominated settings—may overlook how outcomes differ in more feminized domains such as social
Nilanjana Dutt, Sarah Kaplan
wiley   +1 more source

Dismantling the genus Tarenna (Rubiaceae: Pavetteae) in Africa and Madagascar, with the description of three new genera

open access: yesTAXON, EarlyView.
Abstract As presently circumscribed, the Paleotropical genus Tarenna, belonging to the tribe Pavetteae (Rubiaceae), comprises about 200 species and has its centres of diversity in tropical Asia and Africa. Previous molecular phylogenetic studies of the tribe revealed the polyphyly of Tarenna, suggesting that the genus needs to be recircumscribed ...
Petra De Block   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

South Sudan urban development strategy [PDF]

open access: yes
Southern Sudan - the ten southern provinces of Sudan - has attained autonomy and may soon achieve total independence from Sudan. Yet decades of civil war not only prevented development but destroyed the infrastructure left over from the colonial period ...
Pareto, Vittorio Emmanuel
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External Evaluation of the NCA WASH Programme in Darfur: With Special Focus on IDP Camps in Zalingei [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper aims to evaluate the impact and appropriateness of Norwegian Church Aid's WASH program in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps of South and West Darfur, and to provide recommendations for operating the program with a reduced budget in the ...
Martin van de Rijdt
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A novel circumscription and classification for Neurolaeneae (Asteraceae)

open access: yesTAXON, EarlyView.
Abstract Neurolaeneae (Asteraceae) have a complicated taxonomic history. The tribe was described in 1927, but subsequently disregarded in 1977, and later reinstated as a tribe following a large‐scale phylogenetic analysis of Asteraceae in 2002. To date, this tribe has remained poorly studied and it has never been the subject of a comprehensive ...
Vinicius R. Bueno   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Book review: the root causes of Sudan's civil wars, by Douglas H Johnson [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
For readers interested in really engaging with the historical depth of the conflicts in Sudan and South Sudan, The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars by Douglas H Johnson should be required reading, says Richard ...
Stupart, Richard
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Economic Policy Uncertainty and Structural Transformation in Africa: The Conditional Role of Human Resource Development

open access: yesThunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The present study has investigated two objectives. First, it examines the unconditional impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on Africa's structural transformation. Second, it explores the conditional role of human resource development in the nexus between economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and structural transformation.
Ekene ThankGod Emeka   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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