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Philipp Wagner discusses the decision-making behind renewable energy partnerships between the Maghreb and EU states. In his contribution on the Blog for Transregional Research, he offers concrete policy evaluations and recommendations.

Detailed reports as well as a video documentation of last November's events on Burundi and the Burundi-Baden-Württemberg Partnership are now available!

ALMA-Fellow Gloria Kenyatta returns to Kenya after completing her doctorate at ABI.

In the virtual encyclopedia of the network “Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict”, Rebecca Khan discusses the concept of terrorism and Gabriel Garroum Pla looks at the socio-political significance of urbicides.

Together with Hanna Al-Taher, Benjamin Schütze published a guest commentary on German Middle East policy. Their verdict: mendacious and lost.

In the latest issue of Routed Magazine #26, ABI staff members and associates reflect on the impacts of COVID-19 on im/mobility in the Global North and South.

Anas Ansar examines the connections between increasing violence in Rohingya refugee camps and the escalating war in Myanmar's Rakhine region in a blog post at XCEPT.

In his role as Director of the Africa Center for Transregional Research at the University of Freiburg (ACT), Andreas Mehler has acquired a Eucor Seed Money project on the topic of “Human Remains in University Collections - Comparison and Entanglements”. 

Andreas Mehler accompanied a delegation from Cameroon on their visit. The University of Freiburg has human remains of the Maka - now they are to be returned.

Viviana García Pinzón discusses Trump's increasingly aggressive foreign policy in Latin America with Security in Context on the basis of Colombia-US tensions regarding radical deportations.