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Robin Jeffrey on the role of the mobile phone in Indian elections, holograms in Gujarat, and how the key to their success still lies with the people using them.

The surge in international interest in the Saharan Sahel region of Africa following the French-led intervention in Mali and especially the attack on the In Amenas gas facility in southern Algeria by armed Islamists has drawn attention to the links between these incidents and the conflict in Algeria in the 1990s.