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Months after a 2018 peace agreement between the two main protagonists, South Sudan’s entire peace process remains stalled. Matthew Hauenstein and Madhav Joshi explain why the failure to create a unified army and to settle internal borders, have dimmed the prospect of peace. Moreover, despite international pressure, President Salva Kiir and opposition kingpin Riek Machar have been reluctant to meet in person.
And Sam Halvorsen looks ahead to Argentina’s general election on October 27.
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Is it time for South Sudanese President Salva Kiir (right) and former vice-president Riek Machar to meet face to face?
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Matthew Hauenstein, University of Notre Dame; Madhav Joshi, University of Notre Dame
South Sudan has been in the business of building peace for years but is no closer to implementing the roadmap to peace than when it drafted the first agreement.
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Alberto Fernández: surprise frontrunner.
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Sam Halvorsen, Queen Mary University of London
The leader of the centre-left Frente de Todos alliance won a surprise victory in primary elections in August.
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Energy + Environment
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Rizwan Nawaz, University of Leeds; Adel Sharif, University of Surrey
Fossil fuels are heating the atmosphere – but the fact that we're burning them may not be the only reason.
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William L. Iggiagruk Hensley, University of Alaska Anchorage
In 1867, the US bought Alaska from Tsar Alexander II for a tidy sum of $7.2 million. Trump probably wouldn't be able to get that kind of bargain for Greenland.
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Claire Corkhill, University of Sheffield
Russia appears to have developed a revolutionary mini-reactor able to power a missile.
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Philip Donkersley, Lancaster University
It's unlikely that all species of bees will go extinct anytime soon – but current losses could still have a terrible impact on food supplies and ecosystems.
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Science + Technology
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Tobias Deuse, University of California, San Francisco
The idea behind regenerative medicine is that the patient is both the donor and recipient of healthy tissue grown from stem cells. But sometimes the transplanted cells are rejected. Now we know why.
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Garfield Benjamin, Solent University
Facebook and Neuralink are developing interfaces to link our brains to computers, with serious ethical issues.
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Health + Medicine
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Madhukar Pai, McGill University
High-income country experts and institutions are valued more than expertise in low- and middle-income countries.
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Alex van den Heever, University of the Witwatersrand
South Africa's planned NHI has no equivalent in any setting in the world. It's deeply flawed on a number of fronts.
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