Removing Cross-Border Trade Barriers Affecting Small-Scale Women Entrepreneurs

13 June 2021 Cross-border trade has broad poverty and development ramifications, especially for low-skilled women in border areas. It contributes to income, provides jobs, and empowers women across Africa. Because women’s empowerment is a key factor for economic and social development, making cross-border trade easy for small-scale traders is essential for supporting women. […]

Inter-State Boundary Turns Fatal

27 July 2021 Phabin Kalita Six Assam cops were killed and around 80 people, including officials, were injured in firing by Mizoram police and alleged Mizo intruders along the inter-state border in Cachar’s Lailapur on Monday as a boundary dispute festering for 25-odd years escalated into full-blown violence involving security forces […]

India Border Clash Turns Deadly

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 […]

The genesis of the Assam-Mizoram border dispute

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 […]

Modelling the effect of a border closure between Switzerland and Italy on the spatiotemporal spread of COVID-19 in Switzerland

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. […]

Sudan closes border crossing with Ethiopia after disappearance of commander

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 […]

UK “Borders Bill” criminalises asylum-seekers

23 July 2021 Julie Hyland UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government’s Nationality and Border Bill has passed its second reading in parliament by 366 votes to 265. The Bill criminalises asylum-seekers and migrants, overturns the United Nations 1951 Refugee Convention and significantly strengthens the power of border agencies. Its reading […]