Current news and events

ABI researchers write about the Corona Pandemic

ABI researchers have various research and regional focuses & look with this knowledge at what happened during the corona pandemic.

18. September 2020

MIASA starts into the main phase

Das „Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa“ startet nun in die Hauptphase mit dem thematischen Schwerpunkt "Sustainable Governance".

9. September 2020

Essential Readings on "Democracy Promotion"

Benjamin Schütze reviews literature on the idea of "democracy promotion", with a special focus on the Middle East and North Africa.

27. July 2020

ALMA Reviews Blog: Deviant Destinations: Zimbabwe and North to South Migration

Rose Jaji's book wonderfully deconstructs common migration assumptions, writes Franzisca Zanker in our new ALMA Reviews blog.

14. July 2020

A Global Compact for Migration from below? The Role of Migrant Civil Society

Stefan Rother wrote an article on the past and future role of migrant civil society in the Global Compact for Migration, its design and implementation.

8. July 2020

Risking Another Rohingya Refugee Crisis in the Andaman Sea

Will there be another refugee crisis in the Andaman Sea because of the spread of corona virus in the world's largest refugee camp, in Kutupalong, Bangladesh?

8. July 2020

COVID-19 and Refugees and Asylum Seekers in South Africa

Franzisca Zanker & Khangelani Moyo wrote about south african pandemic responses on asylum processes, which will increase the precarity of the bureaucracy.

3. July 2020

Corona in Africa

Franzisca Zanker and Michael Cobb give an expert opinion on the spread and handling with the corona virus in Africa for the video podcast of the Uni Freiburg.

16. June 2020

Protests erupt in Djibouti over detention of military officer

Benedikt Kamski gave an interview with Agence France Press (AFP) about the current protests in Djibouti.

16. June 2020

ALMA Reviews Blog: Writing/righting Palestine studies: settler colonialism, indigenous sovereignty and resisting the ghost(s) of history

Do you know the work of Rana Barakat of Birzeit University in Palestine? You should, says Lewis Turner in our new ALMA Reviews blog.

15. June 2020