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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Horn of Africa"”.
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Climate Change Policy Narratives and Pastoralism in the Horn of Africa: New Concerns, Old Arguments?
While there is a growing body of knowledge on the effects of climatic and other forms of change on pastoralism in Africa, less is known about how recent policy responses and development interventions in the name of climate change and pastoral area development are shaped by certain discourses and …
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Terrorist Organizations in North Africa: The Evolving Threat to Global Security
… other terror groups have long enjoyed the use of nations like Afghanistan to train for and launch attacks because of the large ungoverned spaces and the ability to disappear among the populations. Because of the push by coalition forces, however, terror groups have had to relocate, and have …
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MONEY AS A WEAPON SYSTEM: ADOPTING CHINA'S STRATEGY IN DJIBOUTI
… United States’ sole permanent base location in Africa and the future home of the Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) and United States Africa Command (AFRICOM). Along with Djibouti’s limited supply capabilities, China’s increasing influence in the region has the potential to …
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Competition and cooperation on the Nile River: a contemporary analysis of Ethiopian - Egyptian relations
… seen unprecedented economic growth as a result of its efforts to eradicate poverty through sustainable development. Ethiopia's recent construction of the 6,000 MW Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam along the Blue Nile, a major tributary to the transboundary Nile River, supports these efforts. …
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Invasion genomics, adaptive evolution, and transcriptional plasticity of Anopheles stephensi in Ethiopia and Yemen : implications for malaria transmission and control.
The rapid expansion of Anopheles stephensi across the Horn of Africa represents a major shift in malaria transmission dynamics, particularly in urban environments. This dissertation investigates how ecological pressures, transcriptomic plasticity, and genomic adaptation shape the invasion success …
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Legitimacy and Continuity in The Horn: A Conceptual Analysis of Alex de Waal’s Political Marketplace
… engage with Alex De Waal’s understanding of the nature of legitimacy in the Horn of Africa and the concept he formulates to understand it and explain political behaviour in the Horn: the political marketplace. Through this process of critical engagement, I clarify the concept and make it …
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Towards building stability in a multinational / ethnic society : conflicts in Sidaamaland, Ethiopia
Transformation of identity-based protracted social conflicts in a multinational/ethnic society benefits from geographical area-based three-level knowledge (i.e., knowledge of historical context of conflict development, a deeper understanding of the current conflict through an in-depth conflict …
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Social Action by Youth: Creating a Sense of Community
… agency in a socially disadvantaged area of Melbourne. An appreciative inquiry approach to action research was taken with three local youth groups who became active co-operative inquirers. The first group of 16 year old school students designed and successfully undertook community-building …
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Understanding Why Women Stay: Examining Persistence Factors of Women Majoring in Science and Technology Programs in Public Ethiopian Universities Using a Mixed Methods Design
<p>Amongst African nations, Ethiopia is a unique case in many respects. The country has the second largest population on the continent, is currently experiencing an economic boom, and is a relatively stable nation in the geopolitically volatile "Horn of Africa" region. In the past two decades, the …
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A descriptive analysis of emergency care provided in Northern Somalia
Emergency care is an integral part of an effective healthcare system. However, emergency care systems remain largely underdeveloped in low- and middle-income countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. Somalia is in the horn of Africa. Decades of civil war, political instability, and terrorism …
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Al Shabaab as a transnational actor : a critical theoretical analysis
… In an effort to uncover the best explanation of the drivers behind the group's use of transnational terror, a critical analysis of Rational Choice Theory, Spill-over Conflict Theory and Regional War Complex Theory was conducted. Evaluating each theory according to whether its assumptions held …
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Through the layers of the Ethiopian genome: a survey of human genetic variation based on genome-wide genotyping and re-sequencing data
… history as a species has since long been one of the most attracting and controversial themes of the scientific investigation. From its geographical position, outstanding fossil record and richness of human diversity, the Horn of Africa and, particularly, the Ethiopian region offers an …
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Contribution of anthropogenic climate change to the magnitude of extreme rainfall events and associated synoptic conditions during recent flooding in Kenya
The changing probabilities of extreme climate and weather events, in terms of frequency, intensity, spatial extent, duration and timing, are one of the most noticeable and damaging manifestations of human-induced climate change. The Greater Horn of Africa has experienced a number of extreme weather …
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Strategies for Managing Regional Conflicts: Ethiopia’s Foreign Policy in 1991-2018
Regional rivalries have been a major source of insecurity in the Horn of Africa, and have contributed to inter-state wars, civil wars and state partitions. This thesis examines Ethiopia’s rivalry management strategies under the EPRDF government. It does so by focusing on the initiation, escalation …
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Assessing the representation of teleconnective drivers of rainfall over Eastern Africa in global and regional climate models and projected future changes
… variability is an important characteristic of regional climate, and a subject to significant control from teleconnections. An extended diagnosis of the capacity of climate models to represent remote controls of regional climate (teleconnections) is vital for assessing model-based predictions …
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Somali Resistance against Ethiopian State Nationalism: A Discursive Inquiry
Since the inception of the modern Ethiopian state, the relationship between the Somali region and the central government has been defined by unequal relations underpinned by a violent legacy of imperial conquests in the process of Ethiopian state-formation in the late nineteenth century. This …
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The geologic and tectonic evolution of the Pan-African/Mozambique Belt in East Africa
The presence of ophiolite complexes in NE and E Africa has been documented using Landsat, field and geochemical studies. This has led to the recognition of five ophiolite belts. These ophiolite belts represent sutures marking the position of island arcs and could be traced to Saudi Arabia on a …
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