Niger: the Crossroads of the Major Migration Routes
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Niger: the Crossroads of the Major Migration Routes

The phenomenon of migration from sub-Saharan Africa to territories considered to be safer or economically and politically stable appears to be quite complex to explain. However, to name a few causes, it would seem that poverty, violence, authoritarian regimes, internal conflicts and climate change are the major push factors that bring people to migrate.

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Iran Can and Will They Make a Nuclear Weapon?
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Iran Can and Will They Make a Nuclear Weapon?

In the last couple weeks a nuclear deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), to restrict the nuclear capacity of Iran has continued to erode. The deal’s main objective was to delay, if not prevent, the time it would take for Iran to produce a nuclear bomb.

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