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Reorganization of Northern Peri-Gondwanan Terranes at Cambrian–Ordovician Times: Insights from the Detrital Zircon Record of the Ossa-Morena Zone (SW Iberian Massif)

open access: yesLithosphere, 2022
The Ossa-Morena Zone constitutes a fringe Gondwana-related terrane all along the Paleozoic. This continental block has been classically interpreted as being attached to a portion of the northern Gondwanan margin located close to the West African Craton ...
Cristina Accotto   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Climate Change, Migration, and Conflict in Northwest Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Examines how climate change affects the number of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa traveling through Nigeria, Niger, Algeria, and Morocco; increased security risks in the region; how these factors exacerbate one another; and intercontinental ...
Laura Conley, Michael Werz
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Time poetics and ageing in the Ik mountains: seeing time disappear Poétique du temps et vieillissement dans les montagnes des Iks : voir le temps disparaître

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue S1, Page 73-90, April 2025.
In the Ik mountains in Uganda, only few old people still have the skills to ‘see time’ with sundials. Common ways of knowing time and age now include phones and ID cards in digital registers. I follow the elder seer Komol to explore how changing the measures of time influences the experience of time and age. How do being a ‘time being’ and ideas about ‘
Lotte Meinert
wiley   +1 more source

Tourism and gender identities in Agadez, Niger

open access: yesVia@, 2017
The Agadez region, Niger, experienced an important tourism development between the 1970’s and 1990’s. Then, it was suddendly interrupted by the two successive Tuareg rebellions and the spread of islamist threat.
Ouassa Tiekoura
doaj   +1 more source

Still here: age and generational time Encore là : âge et temps générationnel

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue S1, Page 145-160, April 2025.
The passage of generational time may be one of the most fundamental ways of experiencing ageing; we age in relation to others with whom our lives are intertwined – by becoming a grandmother or losing a father. Those of the oldest generation weaken and pass away, but in that process, they persist – for a while – with the younger generations.
Susan Reynolds Whyte
wiley   +1 more source

Die Hoggar-Tuareg im wirtschafts- und sozialgeographischen Umbruch [PDF]

open access: yesGeographica Helvetica
No abstract available.
G. Jung-Blum
doaj   +1 more source

A history of the Sahara in the nineteenth century [PDF]

open access: yes, 1978
African Studies Center Working Paper No.
Baier, Stephen
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Evaluating the roles of directed breeding and gene flow in animal domestication [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Peer ...
Capriles, Jose M.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

European Biometric Borders and (Im)Mobilities in West Africa: Reflections on Migrant Strategies for Border Circumvention and Subversion

open access: yesPolitics &Policy, Volume 53, Issue 1, February 2025.
ABSTRACT This article argues that the European biometric ID installations and securitization practices at West African borders harm African migrants and compromise the security goals of Europe and Africa. Using Niger's experience, I contend that migrants' poor adaption to the biometric border processes is closely connected to their identity conflicts ...
Victor Chidubem Iwuoha
wiley   +1 more source

Numidum massiliense gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the Bacillaceae family isolated from the human gut

open access: yesNew Microbes and New Infections, 2016
Numidum massiliense gen. nov., sp. nov., strain mt3T is the type strain of Numidum gen. nov., a new genus within the family Bacillaceae. This strain was isolated from the faecal flora of a Tuareg boy from Algeria.
M. Tidjani Alou   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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