The University of Freiburg is a public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It specialises in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.
Already a comprehensive university at its founding in 1457, the University of Freiburg still offers undergraduate and graduate studies as well as professorial qualification in all important disciplines today: the humanities, natural and engineering sciences, medicine, law, and theology. This diversity also provides an ideal environment for innovative interdisciplinary studies. Many famous philosophers, top researchers, and Nobel laureates have taught and researched at the University of Freiburg. The university’s recent success in the “Excellence” competitions, 2007 for research and 2009 for instruction, testifies to its position as one of the leading universities of the 21st century. More than 24,000 students from over 100 nations are matriculated in 180 degree programs at 11 faculties. More than 7,000 professors and lecturers and many other employees put in their effort every day – and experience that family friendliness, equal opportunity, and environmental protection are more than just empty phrases here.
Mahamat Idriss Deby (C) se rend dans un bureau de vote à N'Djamena le 6 mai 2024, lors de l'élection présidentielle tchadienne.
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Les Tchadiens s'attendent à endurer encore plusieurs années de régime autoritaire.
Mahamat Idriss Deby (C) arrives at a polling station in N'Djamena on 6 May 2024 during Chad’s presidential election.
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Refugees play a key role in Turkish politics. Last month’s electoral shock raises the question of how – or whether – elections can change the situation for displaced people.
Mahamat Idriss Deby (C) fait signe à ses partisans lors de sa campagne présidentielle à N'Djamena, le 14 avril 2024.
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Le scrutin présidentiel du 6 mai au Tchad marquera la fin officielle du gouvernement de transition, mais ne signifiera pas une rupture avec le régime autoritaire.
Mahamat Idriss Deby (C) waves to his supporters during his presidential campaign in N'Djamena, on 14 April 2024.
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Transitional president Mahamat Idriss Déby appears to be the only winner of the Chadian constitutional referendum.
A 2014 view of Gaoui refugee camp in N'Djamena, Chad. Pressure on refugee camps in Chad has increased due to latest fighting in Sudan.
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The ongoing war in Sudan poses security, humanitarian, political and economic challenges for Chad.
Le président français Emmanuel Macron accueille le président du Conseil militaire de transition du Tchad, Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, à Paris, en 2021.
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L'expulsion de l'ambassadeur allemand pourrait être un moyen d'avertir les autres ambassades, en particulier la France, de se tenir à l'écart de la politique tchadienne et du soutien à l'opposition.
French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes President of Chad’s Transitional Military Council Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, in Paris, in 2021.
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Expulsion of the German ambassador could be a way of warning other embassies, especially France, to steer clear of Chadian politics and support for the opposition.
Nigerien police processing Emergency Travel Mechanism evacuees in Niamey, Niger in 2019.
Laura Lambert
Chad fulfils all conditions to be affected by Islamist terrorism. But the threat so far comes from its neighbours, not from the inside.
Un membre du projet de reforestation de Pesalat, sur l’île de Bornéo, replante des arbres dans une zone de marécage tourbeux défrichée par les incendies et l’exploitation forestière.
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La restauration des forêts constitue un élément clé de la lutte contre les perturbations climatiques. Le réseau de recherche mondial, le Tree Diversity Network, tente d’y contribuer efficacement.
A staff member from the Pesalat Reforestation Project on the island of Borneo replants trees in a peat-swamp forest area that was cleared by fires and logging. The areas are habitat for the orangutan, which is highly endangered.
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As climate change worsens, it’s essential to restore our forests and ensure that the ones we plant are resilient. A global research network, the Tree Diversity Network, is working to make it happen.
July 1976: President Nyerere (right) watches as President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia greets Chinese Vice-Premier Sun Chien at the handing over ceremony of the Tanzania-Zambia railway.
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Chad’s ongoing national inclusive dialogue appears great on paper but there are serious gaps and little hope for peace and democracy.
The coffin of Idriss Deby Itno during his funeral on April 23, 2021.
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L’Allemagne a présenté ses excuses à la Namibie pour le génocide de 1904-1908, et promis de verser des réparations. Cette page tragique de l’Histoire n’est pas refermée pour autant.
The mortal remains of some of the victims of German atrocities in Namibia that Germany handed over in 2018.
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When he grabbed power in 1990, Déby promised to create a democratic society, but he turned out to be a ruthless authoritarian whose main agenda was to remain in office.