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Jun 20, 2024 | 
biorxiv.org | Dominik Groos |Anna Reuss |Peter Rupprecht |Tevye Jason Stachniak
AbstractAppropriate risk evaluation is essential for survival in complex, uncertain environments. Confronted with choosing between certain (safe) and uncertain (risky) options, animals show strong preference for either option consistently across extended time periods. How such risk preference is encoded in the brain remains elusive. A candidate region is the lateral habenula (LHb), which is prominently involved in value-guided behavior.
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May 13, 2024 | 
democracyinafrica.org | Nic Cheeseman |Anna Reuss |Theogene Rudasingwa
Join us for a brilliant panel on Ghana’s 2024 elections as we discuss issues, concerns and outcomes. 21 May 2024, 4:00PM Ghana time, 5:00PM UK timeHow will the last election of the year play out – and what will it tell us about Ghanaian democracy and the prospects for the economy?
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May 8, 2024 | 
t.ly | Olumba E. Ezenwa |John Ojo |Jan Pospisil |Anna Reuss
Armed troops in Niger overthrew the government in July 2023, seizing power for themselves. The following months were rife with speculation that the military government would align with Moscow and possibly form ties with the Russian military or its associates. This has now become a reality, to the detriment of western interests in the country.
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May 2, 2024 | 
democracyinafrica.org | Theogene Rudasingwa |Jan Pospisil |Anna Reuss |Komlan Avoulete
Today, thirty years ago, I attended a Pan-African Movement conference in Kampala, Uganda. Later that night, as I prepared to sleep, I tuned in to the BBC news. I heard that a plane carrying the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi had crashed, killing President Juvenal Habyarimana, President Cyprian Ntaryamira, and all their entourage.
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May 2, 2024 | 
t.ly | Theogene Rudasingwa |Jan Pospisil |Anna Reuss |Komlan Avoulete
Today, thirty years ago, I attended a Pan-African Movement conference in Kampala, Uganda. Later that night, as I prepared to sleep, I tuned in to the BBC news. I heard that a plane carrying the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi had crashed, killing President Juvenal Habyarimana, President Cyprian Ntaryamira, and all their entourage.
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May 1, 2024 | 
democracyinafrica.org | Jan Pospisil |Anna Reuss |Josephine Beoku-Betts |Nkasi Wodu
In the early hours of April 15 2023, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) – a Sudanese paramilitary force – attacked the military airstrip in the town of Merowe and deployed troops across strategic locations in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum. Within hours, fighting between the RSF and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) had begun. And by the afternoon, it was nearly impossible for civilians to flee Khartoum. It would take only a few days for the war to spread to other parts of the country.
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May 1, 2024 | 
t.ly | Jan Pospisil |Anna Reuss |Josephine Beoku-Betts |Theogene Rudasingwa
In the early hours of April 15 2023, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) – a Sudanese paramilitary force – attacked the military airstrip in the town of Merowe and deployed troops across strategic locations in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum. Within hours, fighting between the RSF and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) had begun. And by the afternoon, it was nearly impossible for civilians to flee Khartoum. It would take only a few days for the war to spread to other parts of the country.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
democracyinafrica.org | Anna Reuss |Asafika Mpako |Mikhail Moosa |Matthias Krönke
DiA’s very own Fromagehomme (aka Prof Nic Cheeseman) has a new column out on what we can learn from Senegal – and Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia – about how opposition parties can win unfair elections. He argues that opposition parties in Africa don’t usually win elections because governments play by the rules, but because they secure enough votes to make it unfeasible to manipulate the outcome … and identifies three things opposition parties can do to increase their chance of success.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
democracyinafrica.org | Anna Reuss |Asafika Mpako |Mikhail Moosa |Matthias Krönke
At last, in December 2024, the citizens of South Sudan, which gained independence in 2011, are supposed to be able to elect their political representatives. Yet, whether a ballot is indeed going to come to pass this time round is uncertain. Previous plans for elections first fell victim to two civil wars and then to endless delays in the implementation of the 2018 peace accord.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
t.ly | Anna Reuss |Asafika Mpako |Mikhail Moosa |Matthias Krönke
At last, in December 2024, the citizens of South Sudan, which gained independence in 2011, are supposed to be able to elect their political representatives. Yet, whether a ballot is indeed going to come to pass this time round is uncertain. Previous plans for elections first fell victim to two civil wars and then to endless delays in the implementation of the 2018 peace accord.
