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Rebuilding a „New‟ Libya & Implications for International Politics

CESRAN Int.1 August 20177 August 2017

On 1 September 1969, exactly 42 years ago, the Libyan revolution‘ was launched by a coup d’état against King Idris under the leadership of a young military officer, Muammer Gaddafi....

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Libya: Human Security Challenges

CESRAN Int.1 August 20177 August 2017

Human Security conceptualisation analyses the interface between security, development and intervention. Traditionally, 'security' mostly referred to the security of nation-states in the context of military conflicts with foreign powers. Traditional...

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Post-Gaddafi Reconstruction of Libya

CESRAN Int.1 August 20177 August 2017

On 19 August 2011, Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, Vice-Chairman of National Transition Council (NTC), the rebel group fighting against the Colonel Gaddafi regime in Libya announced that ‗The zero hour has...

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Africa’s missing Ebola outbreaks

CESRAN Int.23 July 201723 July 2017

During the fallout from the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which killed more than 11,000 people, one of the questions asked of the World Health Organisation (WHO) was why...

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Auschwitz to Rwanda: the link between science, colonialism and genocide

CESRAN Int.28 January 201728 January 2017

When the Soviet army liberated the Auschwitz death camp on 27 January 1945, among the prisoners left behind were a number of young twins. The surviving children and many more...

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The Revolt in North Africa in Global Perspective: How Neoliberal Policies Triggered Widespread Poverty and Unemployment, and Perhaps an Arab “Caracazo‟

CESRAN Int.20 January 201723 January 2017

In the aftermath, life turned upside down in Tunisia and the fire that Bouaziz lit burned until it engulfed the entire country from town to town. He died an agonising...

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Why Urban Agriculture isn’t a Panacea for Africa’s Food Crisis

CESRAN Int.17 April 201617 April 2016

Gareth Haysom, University of Cape Town and Jane Battersby, University of Cape Town Urban agriculture is widely promoted as the solution to the growing problem of urban food insecurity in South Africa...

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South Sudan’s Spiritual Father would Weep at the State of His Country

CESRAN Int.8 August 20158 August 2015

South Sudan has just marked ten years since the death of one of its most beloved figures, John Garang, who was killed in a mysterious helicopter explosion. A towering figure...

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At War against Itself: Religious Identity, Militancy and Growing Insecurity in Northern Nigeria

CESRAN Int.2 April 20152 April 2015

JCTS (Journal of Conflict Transformation and Security) | Vol. 4 | No. 1-2 | April-October 2014 Abstract This paper critically examines the uneasy nexus between religious identity and spiralling violence...

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Ebola: Sierra Leone’s New War

CESRAN Int.19 January 201519 January 2015

Sierra Leone is a country located on the west coast of Africa. It gained independence from Britain on April 27, 1961. It is bounded to the north and northeast by...

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Why Did Algeria Not Know Its Own Arab Spring? The Islamic Hypothesis

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

According to asurvey conductedin 2012 by the ArabBarometer, 84.5% of Algeriansare not interestedin politics and 52% donot have faith in the political system. Such lack of confidencemight suggestthat Algeria isready...

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Are Local Government Authorities Sleeping Over Chinese Involvement In Small Scale Mining In Ghana?

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

The upsurge of China’s economic supremacy is being monitored carefully in many parts of the worldlargely because the impact of this new ‘economic power house’ would have significant implications for...

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Entrepreneurship Insecurity, Smuggling And Cross-Border Dynamics In Central Africa

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

Central Africa, as a geopolitical complex and security complex, is plagued since independences to the dynamics of insecurity and border smuggling, structured around the mechanic of networks and the entrepreneurship...

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French Intervention In Mali: Implications And Consequences

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

After pressure on the Provisional Government of Mali and the United Nations for a military intervention, France has a started a military operation called Operation Serval in the north of...

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Turkey and Peacebuilding in Africa: leadership, youth and conflict transformation

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

Turkey’s position bridging Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and its growing economic and political power, make it an increasingly important regional and international actor in terms of security, leadership...