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November 9, 2020Check out the recap of the second session of the ADtalks, the Online Special Edition of the Atlantic Dialogues annual conference. More on ad.policycenter.ma With Uduak Amimo, Journalist and Consultant, Uduak Amimo Coaching and Consulting Hafsat Abiola, President, Women in Africa Nkosana...
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November 5, 2020Persistent poverty, economic decay and lack of opportunities are at the root of considerable discontent in declining and lagging-behind areas the world over. Poor development prospects and an increasing belief that these places have “no future” have led many of these so-called “places t...
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October 28, 2020Social media is increasingly used by oppressed and helpless communities as a voice to create change and increase awareness about social injustice. In this paper, we study the Black Lives Matter movement, one of the fastest-growing social movements in the United States, through the Twitter lens by collecting around 600,000 tweets with both the #BlackLivesMatter and #BLM hashtags, published from March to July 2020. Our study shows that this movement has received unprecedented attentio ... -
October 23, 2020Ce papier offre un rapport de bilan et de perspectives de la Covid-19 en Afrique, en se fondant notamment sur les statistiques publiées par l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé (OMS) et par le Centre pour la prévention et le contrôle des maladies de l’Union africaine (UA). L’analyse des évolutions globales dans le continent permet de tirer plusieurs enseignements : (1) Le nombre de cas est relativement faible en Afrique avec, au 27 septembre 2020, 111 cas déclarés Covid-19 sur 100 ... -
October 8, 2020The so-called QAnon conspiracy theory has inspired groups with millions of members on Facebook and is considered by some observers to be “a new American religion”. For the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, however, the conspiracy theorists could pose a domestic terrorist threat. Q followers believe the baseless messages of their faceless leader(s) that a cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles is running a global child-trafficking ring and plotting against Donald Trump, who is bat ...
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