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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
05 July 2021
02 July 2021
ASCL researcher Akinyinka Akinyoade participated as Nigeria expert during the launch of The Kleptocracy Project, a long-term investigative collaboration between a network of journalists from countries all over Africa and platform ZAM. The project looks into questions about how money intended for health, education, and safety ‘disappears’, or fills the pockets of corrupt leaders in African countries. The publication of the ZAM Kleptocracy Project investigations kicked off on 24 June 2021 in Pakhuis De Zwijger in Amsterdam, and was broadcast live.
01 July 2021
A consortium of academic institutes, among which the ASCL, has been awarded a small grant for a project that will look at the role of new technologies in approaching the SDGs: what are the benefits for the South? Technical and medical innovations hold great promise for improving lives in the Global South. However, technologies developed in the West do not automatically function in other societies. Within this project, the ASCL will specifically collaborate with Delft University and the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) on the use of satellite data for African climate and development policy.
24 June 2021
This volume, based on papers that were given at the conference 'Destination Africa' (held in March 2018), challenges received ideas of Africa as a marginal continent and place of exodus by considering the continent as a centre of global connectivity and confluence. Flows of people, goods, and investments towards Africa have increased and diversified over recent decades. In light of these changes, the contributions analyse new actors in such diverse fields as education, trade, infrastructure, and tourism.
20 June 2021
Ethiopia is holding parliamentary elections on 21 June at a time of immense domestic turmoil and foreign pressure. This is due to, in particular, the Tigray conflict, the COVID-19 pandemic and other ethnic-based violence. Ethiopia has always been a complex and volatile country, but the confluence of these pressures in 2021 is unique, and dangerous. Still, the elections are better held than delayed again, Jan Abbink writes in The Conversation.
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