I know a great deal of residents who walk or cycle to Sainsbury's via Rose Hill face disruption as a result of the sudden closure of the Cottesmore Rd bridge. This vital link needs to be reopened urgently.
Please sign Ed Turner's petition calling for certainty about its future.
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🚨 How do researchers study crime while managing the risks of fieldwork?
Join AfOx Visiting Fellow Felix Ajiola for Dangerous Fieldwork: The Challenges of Researching Crime in Lagos.
📅 12 June 2026
⏰ 16:00–17:30
📍 African Studies Centre
I was certain Ethiopia's first foreign licence would go to a Kenyan bank. Interesting.
The decline of the Roman Empire offers insights into the crisis of African states in the 19th century, which paved the way for colonial conquest. Join us on next Wednesday June 10 for a virtual IHR African History Seminar with Allegra Ayida (Yale) to find out how! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Northern Ireland battles to contain disorder after Belfast knife attack - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
Interesting reading.
How Britain could afford to pay for war: Keynes’s 1940 financing plan contains lessons for the current government
Andy Haldane
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Oxford School of Global and Area Studies
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Fabian Krautwald
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"Women are running these foundational networks of trade across borders."
In Ep. 4 of the Beyond Series, Nicki Kindersley reflects on the central role women play in sustaining livelihoods, economies and connections across Sudan and South Sudan.
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“It’s not the absence of order, rather it’s a space governed by its own rules.”
In Ep. 4 of the Beyond Series, Sahra Ahmed Koshin challenges assumptions about informal trade, arguing that these economies operate through their own systems and relationships.
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Jason Mosley
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Jason Mosley
Our June 2026 RVI Newsletter is here!
Catch up on the latest stories, insights, research and updates from across the Rift Valley Institute's work and programmes.
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Keynes’s 1940 financing plan contains lessons for the current government
Ethiopia has granted a unit of Nigeria’s United Capital Group the first foreign investment banking licence in the country.
Charles Onyango-Obbo
NAIROBI, June 9 (Reuters) – Ethiopia has granted a unit of Nigeria’s United Capital Group the first foreign investment banking licence in the country, its capital markets regulator said.
