�山ǿ�� News - africa

Research Group on African Air and Space Law launched

webfull — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 14:04:58 +0000

This is only the first step. The �山ǿ�� Institute of Air and Space Law is thrilled to announce the take-off of the Research Group focusing on air and space law in Africa! Thank you to the Co-Director, Prof. Vincent Correia and our Executive Director Stefan-Michael Wedenig for their opening remarks.

Published: 8 March 2024

A new understanding of human origins in Africa

webfull — Wed, 17 May 2023 15:03:00 +0000

There is broad agreement that Homo sapiens originated in Africa. But there remain many uncertainties and competing theories about where, when, and how.

Published: 17 May 2023

Men who paid for sex more likely to live with HIV

webfull — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 19:02:38 +0000

Twenty years’ worth of surveys suggest that nearly one in ten sexually active men in 35 countries in sub-Saharan Africa have been clients of sex workers. These men are about 50 percent more likely to be living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), according to a team of international researchers, including Professor Mathieu Maheu-Giroux and Caroline Hodgins of �山ǿ��.

Published: 25 January 2022

Expert: Sudan army seized power to prevent civil war says coup leader

webfull — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 17:39:15 +0000

Sudan's coup leader, Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has said the military seized power to prevent "civil war". He added that the deposed Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok was being kept at the general's house "for his own safety” but has now returned home. Protests are continuing for a second day in the capital, Khartoum, with roads, bridges and shops closed. Phone and internet lines are also disrupted. (BBC News)

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Published: 29 October 2021

State and Trends in Adaptation Report 2021: Africa

webfull — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 15:48:53 +0000

During his official visit to the Netherlands and the Global Center on Adaptation on October 29 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (seen here with Dr. Patrick Verkooijen, Chief Executive Officer, Global Center on Adaptation) examines the "State and Trends in Adaptation Report 2021: Africa", co-directed by ISID Professor of Practice Jamal Saghir. The full report can be found online.

Published: 29 October 2021

Launch of Uhuru, the �山ǿ�� Journal of African Studies

webfull — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 15:52:32 +0000

More than ever now, Africa is being studied, watched, admired, criticized and exported. In this continual movement of creating new understandings, dismantling biased thought systems and valuing native culture, the creators of this journal, UHURU 2020, give life to the conceptualization of new issues facing Africa in this edition. We hope that you will enjoy reading it as much as we have enjoyed putting it together with the contributions of students tackling issues across the whole continent! Again, thank you and, we can't say this enough, stay home, stay safe. - Uhuru Team 2020

Published: 30 March 2020

UNAIDS likely not to meet its HIV targets among gay men in Africa

webfull — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 22:27:16 +0000

Despite improvements in HIV testing among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Africa, they are missing out on HIV treatment.

This is the finding of research, published in The Lancet HIV, led by Imperial College London, which analysed data from 75 independent studies involving 44,993 MSM across 28 African countries, between 2004 and 2018.

Published: 7 October 2019

�山ǿ�� joins The MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program

webfull — Fri, 03 May 2013 14:26:40 +0000

�山ǿ�� announced today its participation in The MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program, a transformative initiative aimed at advancing social and economic progress in Africa. As part of the Program, �山ǿ�� will receive $27 million over the next decade to educate academically talented young people from economically disadvantaged communities in Africa, and prepare them to return to their home countries, successfully transition into the workforce, and lead change in their communities.

Published: 3 May 2013