Rita Abrahamsen

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Rita Abrahamsen
Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

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États-Unis : une nouvelle stratégie pour l’Afrique 0
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- 19 décembre 2018
L’administration Trump n’a pas eu grand-chose à dire sur l’Afrique, sinon quelques remarques absurdes ou offensantes, ou les deux. Il y eut d’abord le fameux commentaire du président « sx!#hole » , puis ses éloges pour le pays inexistant de …
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All I Want for Christmas…Is for Bob Geldof to Be Quiet 0
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- 10 décembre 2014
When Sir Bob Geldof re-released the song ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’ to raise money for Ebola victims, I decided against writing a blog about it. Bob does not need me to do his promotion, I thought, and sure enough …
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Before We Get Carried Away: Politics, Security and Nigeria’s Missing Girls 0
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- 22 mai 2014
It is rare that Africa captures the attention of the world. Its everyday suffering is normally barely a ripple on the global airwaves. Not so with the kidnapped schoolgirls of Chibok. By now, the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls has been retweeted over …
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South Africa After Mandela: No Easy Walk to Freedom 0
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- 8 décembre 2013
The day Nelson Mandela died, I was boarding a flight to Nairobi. Seeing my itinerary, a member of the airport staff commented off-handedly, “Africa—why are there always so many problems there?” “Perhaps we just hear more about the problems, and …
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The African Union, the International Criminal Court and the Politics of Justice 0
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- 21 octobre 2013
The African Union’s new offices in Addis Ababa stand on the site of one of Africa’s most notorious prisons, popularly known as Alem Bekagn or ‘farewell to the world’. For decades, thousands of people suffered and died here, many for …
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Mali: Global Jihad, Local Struggles and the Dangers of a Single Story 0
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- 19 février 2013
In the wake of the French intervention in Mali, there is much talk of the Sahel region becoming a safe haven for extremist Islamists. Africa’s vast desert territories are perceived as ‘ungoverned spaces’, or ‘black holes’ where a dangerous underworld …
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The Olympics, and the Rise and Dangers of Private Security 0
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- 17 juillet 2012
Today, Nick Buckles, the CEO of the world’s biggest private security company, will be questioned by the UK House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, which is attempting to explain how G4S managed to bungle the Olympic contract quite so …
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Senegal: Warnings From a Model Democracy on the Brink 0
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- 24 février 2012
Senegal, one of Africa’s most celebrated democracies, hovers on the brink of electoral chaos and political violence. At least six people have already been killed, and protests and demonstrations are continuing on a daily basis despite the violent crack-down of …
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Africa: No Longer « The Hopeless Continent »0
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- 13 décembre 2011
“Africa Rising” declared The Economist’s front page last week. How things change! Eleven years ago, the front page of the same prestigious weekly declared Africa “The Hopeless Continent”. Then a young soldier brandishing an RPG peered menacingly at the …
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