July 27, 2021 By Hari Kumar and Emily Schmall Two Indian states have been arguing since the 1980s over where exactly the line falls on a 193-square-mile strip of land dividing them. On Monday, guns and hand grenades came out. Gunfire and grenades exploded along a stretch of dense tropical forest in India’s northeast on Monday in a […]
27 July 2021 By ARI SHAPIRO, ASHLEY BROWN & MIGUEL MACIA All Things Considered ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Let’s visit a city now that sits on the northern edge of the African continent. Melilla is technically an autonomous city of Spain. The land is legally part of Europe. But it is surrounded by Morocco, across the sea from the Spanish […]
27 July 2021 By Explained Desk Assam-Mizoram border dispute: The violence spotlights the long-standing inter-state boundary issues in the Northeast, particularly between Assam and the states that were carved out of it. Visual of violence at Assam-Mizoram border. (Twitter @himantabiswa) At least five Assam Police personnel were killed after the old boundary dispute between Assam […]
25 Jul 2021 By Sossi Tatikyan What was posed as a border demarcation issue further threatens regional stability in the South Caucasus. The current context of mounting military action is not sustainable; the process must revert back to international norms. But first, it is necessary to lay out where we stand today with a chronology of […]
24 July 2021 By Mathilde Griméea, Maria Bekker-Nielsen Dunbarb, Felix Hofmannb and Leonhard Held We present an approach to extend the Endemic-Epidemic (EE) modelling framework for the analysis of infectious disease data. In its spatiotemporal application, spatial dependencies have originally been captured by a power law applied to static neighbourhood matrices. We propose to adjust […]
23 July 2021 BY WILL MEYER Borders “are a direct result of colonialism and maintain a neo-colonial worldview.” HERIKA MARTINEZ The iconic abolitionist activist Angela Davis once wrote that “walls turned sideways are bridges.” This creativity and openness to our fellow humans — this bridge-building — is what we need to do to address the unfolding crises of […]
24 July 2021 By Al Waght News Several thousand years after the Abrahamic religions’ story about the Nile River, Israelites, and Egypt, the three are meeting each other again in North Africa. An artery to Egypt, the Nile is constituted of the two Blue Nile and White Nile rivers. Blue Nile is a rich […]
24 July 2021 By NEVILLE TELLER The long-running dispute is between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia. It all revolves around the waters of the Nile. FISHERMEN WORK on the Nile River on the outskirts of Cairo last summer. (photo credit: MOHAMED ABD EL GHANY/ REUTERS) On July 8, a disagreement between three African nations that has […]
24 July 2021 Clashes erupted late last year between Sudanese and Ethiopian forces over Al-Fashqa. (File/AFP) Sudan closed its border with Ethiopia on Saturday following the “disappearance” of a commander who was in the area pursuing Ethiopian militias off, local media Sudan Tribune reported. Captain Bahaa El-Din Youssef was pursuing Ethiopian militias who “kidnapped three Sudanese children from within the […]
23 July 2021 By AFP At least 20 civilians have been killed and tens of thousands displaced in “heavy fighting” between rebels and pro-government forces in Ethiopia’s Afar region, which neighbours war-hit Tigray, an official said on Thursday. The sustained clashes in Afar highlight the potential for Ethiopia’s eight-month-old conflict to expand well beyond Tigray, where […]
