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*UPDATED: A rough guide to foreign military bases in Africa

15 February 2017

Check out our interactive map showing how international military bases are proliferating in Africa, especially in Djibouti

Analysis

Five rare humanitarian success stories of 2016 (plus caveats)
29 December 2016
It’s hard to see the silver lining around a year as awful as 2016, but a few good news stories did emerge
Feature

Alpine migrant route into France a dead-end for many
30 November 2016
A French community on the Italian border finds itself divided: some locals want to turn illegal migrants in, but others want to help smuggle them.

Liberté, égalité, impunité
4 July 2016 Analysis
Counting the money
14 December 2015 News
HAS VIDEO

From the silly to the surreal
3 December 2015 Photo feature

Analysis

Look back and learn: Refugees in 1938
18 November 2015
Gathered on the calm shores of Lake Geneva, a group of 32 political representatives failed to reach agreement on how to accommodate hundreds of thousands...
Analysis

Syrian refugees' ‘worst nightmare'
16 November 2015
Fade Kintar, a 24-year-old chemical engineer from Damascus, was among a group of Syrian refugees watching the horror of multiple terrorist attacks in Paris unfold...
Maps and Graphics

France and Kenya - how the media responded to terror attacks
15 November 2015
The ISIS-inspired attack on Paris in November 2015 caused a huge spike in media coverage. In terms of lives lost, a major Al Shabaab attack...
Opinion

"We can do better"
5 November 2015
Marienna Pope-Weidermann never meant to become a volunteer. But she spent the last five weeks on the Greek island of Lesvos: pulling babies from the...
Maps and Graphics

When did European media interest in refugees pick up?
4 November 2015
Using the GDELT media monitoring database, we show how news coverage of refugees emerged from the sidelines.
Maps and Graphics

How does Europe's media cover migration?
4 November 2015
Online media coverage of refugees in Europe is analysed using the GDELT database.

Turkey is hosting ten times as many Syrian refugees as Europe
31 October 2015 Maps and Graphics
Non, merci! Why refugees avoid France
20 October 2015 Feature
Europe doesn't have a migrant crisis; it has a Syrian crisis
2 September 2015 Opinion
Playing the EU asylum lottery
21 July 2015 Maps and Graphics
What drives anti-immigration attitudes?
13 January 2014 Analysis
Briefing on roles of USA, France
15 February 2011 Feature

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