The use of drones in the Sahel, a region of Africa that has been plagued by violence driven by jihadist insurgency for much of the past decade, has become a real problem. In April, for example, Al Qaeda’s affiliate in the Sahel, Jama’at Nusrat al Islam wa al Muslimeen, reportedly carried out an attack against a rival militia using drones modified with grenades and mortars in central Mali.
‘Killer robots’ are becoming a real threat in Africa
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Political posts on social media that most frequently referenced ancient history tended to be more extreme, hostile and overwhelmingly negative in tone than average, finds a new study by researchers from UCL and the University [...]
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Most school shootings don’t just happen out of nowhere—there are typically warning signs.This post was originally published on this site
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Is authoritarian populism finally being rejected by citizens around the world?This post was originally published on this site
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Brazil’s recent ban of X may seem antithetical to Americans’ notion of the First Amendment and the idea of the internet as a “marketplace of ideas” where the good ultimately overshadows the bad and the [...]
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The time frame defining “protracted displacement” by the United Nations may need to be significantly shortened, according to a new study on internally displaced persons (IDPs) which suggests earlier support is needed for affected communities.This [...]
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Venezuela has been ruled by dictators for nearly a quarter of a century, first under Hugo Chavez, and now under his protege, Nicolas Maduro. Their regimes have suppressed free speech, throttled the economy, committed untold [...]
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In her 2016 bestselling book “Strangers in Their Own Land,” UC Berkeley sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild proposed that everyone has a “deep story”—a narrative about one’s life and the world that’s based more on emotion [...]
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Tens of millions of women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa will experience catastrophic levels of intimate partner violence because the world is failing to make progress on the climate crisis, according to new projections by [...]
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In Congress this term, 25% of senators and 28% of representatives are women, near record highs for both houses, but far below equal representation with men. As Kamala Harris runs for president, will being a [...]
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A new study provides extensive documentation of the “IPV-to-Prison Pipeline”—the pathways through which women who are survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) find themselves serving long prison sentences for acts of survival.This post was originally [...]
