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Horizontal Inequalities and Ethnonationalist Civil War: A Global Comparison [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Contemporary research on civil war has largely dismissed the role of political and economic grievances, focusing instead on opportunities for conflict. However, these strong claims rest on questionable theoretical and empirical grounds.
Collier   +22 more
core   +1 more source

The Origins of Africa's Upper Mantle Discontinuities

open access: yesGeochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Volume 26, Issue 7, July 2025.
Abstract Enigmatic discontinuities in the upper mantle beneath Africa, such as the mid‐lithosphere and X‐discontinuities, have prompted various theories regarding their causes. However, most studies rely on S‐to‐P receiver functions, raising concerns about resolution.
Jean‐Joel Legre, Tolulope Olugboji
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

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
core  

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

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

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

Jihadism in Mali and the Sahel: evolving dynamics and patterns [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The Sahel is a crisis polygon. Following the French intervention in Mali in 2013, this vast and sparsely inhabited region has seen the gradual resurgence and the realignment of jihadist armed groups that have extended their operational range further ...
francesco strazzari, luca raineri
core   +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

The Typology of Number Borrowing in Berber [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The question of which numbers are most easily borrowed, and in which contexts, has implications for an understanding both of historical change and language contact and of the extent to which the linguistic behaviour of numbers can be related to ...
Souag, Lameen
core   +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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