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. […]
01 August 2021 The inter-state border disputes have come under fresh focus recently after five Assam Police personnel and a civilian were killed in clashes along the Assam-Mizoram border Locals near damaged security force vehicles after clashes last night on the Assam-Mizoram border at Lailapur in Cachar district, on July 27, […]
27 July 2021 Dawit Endeshaw and Giulia Paravicini An internally displaced Ethiopian girl walks back to her village Sariir in Somali Region, Ethiopia January 13, 2020. REUTERS/Giulia Paravicini The local government in Ethiopia’s Somali region said on Tuesday militia from the neighbouring region of Afar had attacked and looted a town, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
22 July 2021 Crossings come months after other Spanish enclave of Ceuta witnessed influx of arrivals amid Madrid-Rabat dispute. Melilla and Ceuta – a second Spanish enclave also on Africa’s Mediterranean coast – are popular crossing points for migrants and refugees seeking a better life in Europe [File: Jesus Blasco de […]