Under-investment and lack of development in Africa’s critical infrastructure continues to threaten the continent’s dynamic growth. Addressing Africa’s infrastructure gap will require vast technical expertise, significant financing, and a commitment to making the reforms necessary to attract private sector investment. This session explores the public-private partnerships, technological innovations, and financing tools that are transforming energy, transport, and digital infrastructure in Africa.

Welcoming the panel: Dr. Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group

Moderator: The Honorable Susan Rice, Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor

Speakers:

Muhtar Kent, Chairman of the Board and CEO, The Coca-Cola Company

Tshepo Mahloele, CEO, Harith Fund Managers

Strive Masiyiwa, Founder and Chairman, Econet Wireless

Virginia Rometty, Chairman, President and CEO, IBM

Stephen Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder, Blackstone

The AfOx insakas are a platform to ideas and knowledge about Africa-focused research with speakers from diverse and varied academic disciplines.
We are delighted to host two incredible speakers for our next insaka:

Prof Ola Uduku, Joint Head of Architecture, Manchester School of Architecture, University of Manchester: Collaborative Partnerships in African Architectural Documentation and Research

Prof Gordon Awandare, Director, West African Center for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens: Building and sustaining a conducive ecosystem for globally competitive research in African universities

To get a reminder for the event, register here:

Several crises over the past decade have highlighted the inadequacy of global health governance and pandemic preparedness. Globalization and its consequences—among them population growth, global warming, urbanization, and easier trade and travel—have all contributed to outbreaks of infectious disease. Since 2000, a series of epidemics, including SARS, H1N1, Zika, and Ebola, have taken a significant toll, prompting experts to call for increased investment in global health security—efforts to help prepare countries to prevent, detect, and respond to potentially pandemic and epidemic diseases. Moreover, debate still exists over the proper strategies to address outbreaks of infectious disease, with national health officials often divided over the proper way to respond to a certain outbreak. With this division, and coordination of international pandemic response still ad hoc, an infectious disease with a greater lethality than those seen in the past decade could have devastating consequences. With an outbreak of Venezuelan equine encephalitis wreaking havoc in northern Colombia and threatening to spill over into already unstable Venezuela, the National Security Council needs to decide how to prioritize and pursue the U.S. interests at stake. Crucially, NSC members must decide whether and how to implement travel restrictions into the country, weighing the benefits of containing the outbreak with the potential of imposing significant costs on Colombia and Venezuela.

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Model Diplomacy, from the Council on Foreign Relations, is a free simulation program that invites students, educators, and professionals from a variety of backgrounds to step into the roles of decision-makers on the U.S. National Security Council (NSC) or UN Security Council. Get started at: https://modeldiplomacy.cfr.org

CFR Education is an initiative within the Council on Foreign Relations that aims to make complex foreign policy and international issues accessible for high school and college students through its educational products: World101, Model Diplomacy, and Convene the Council.

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Q&A for Andrew Rugasira's keynote address at the 2012 NYU Development Research Institute Annual Conference "Debates in Development: The Search For Answers" on March 22, 2012.

Mobile Payment System in Liberia with Dehpue Zuo, William King & Dr. Lionel Bernard

Topic

High social mobility is the cornerstone of a just society. What role do ethnic and religious factors play in determining social mobility? Can the differences between ethnic and religious groups be explained solely by geographic or political factors? In the lecture, these issues will be considered through the example of African countries.

About the lecturer

Elias Papaioannou, Professor of Economics, Academic Co-Director, Wheeler Institute for Business and Development, London Business School, European Central Bank Economist (2005-2007), National Bureau of Economic Research Faculty Research Fellow (2011-2016).

Video with translation into Russian: https://youtu.be/PgKqujdDH3I

AFRICOM Commanding General David M. Rodriguez and Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Linda Thomas-Greenfield discuss U.S. foreign policy and security cooperation in sub-Saharan Africa on July 1, 2015. A transcript will be available on http://www.state.gov/liveatstate/.

Letterform Lecture, March 19, 2019 — In 1989, two brothers in Guinea, aged 10 and 14, invented an alphabet from scratch for their native language. Pular (and Fulfulde) were spoken by millions of Fula people dispersed across Western Africa, but had no writing system of their own. Within a few years, the boys’ script spread like wildfire, as a culture embraced a new literacy. The alphabet is called ADLaM (or Adlam) after its first four letters and an acronym for a phrase meaning “the alphabet that protects a people from vanishing.”

As users of the Latin script, we seldom think of the origins of our writing system, let alone the process it underwent to become widely established. This is the process happening now — at an unprecedented pace — for Adlam. In this two-part talk, you’ll be introduced to Adlam by the inventors of the script, Abdoulaye and Ibrahima Barry. They’ll talk about the culture of the Fulani, how they use Adlam, and how they are embracing digital technologies to spread its use.

Then we’ll hear from the two American type designers who are developing the first multi-weight, multi-style typeface for Adlam. They’ll talk about the design challenges in bringing typographic diversity to a new writing system, and the twists and turns that come with working for an ever-changing landscape of African culture, the internet, and computing technology.

Learn more: https://letterformarchive.org/....events/inventing-the

What the Ship is Going on in the Red Sea and with Global Shipping (Ep96) | Updated on Houthi Attacks | Situation in and around the Red Sea, Bab el-Mandeb & Gulf of Aden | Diversion of Shipping | Suez & Panama Canals | Shipping Costs | What Other Issues?

What's Going on With Shipping?
Dec 23, 2023

In this episode, Sal Mercogliano - maritime historian @campbelledu - discusses the Top 5 Maritime Stories as of Dec 23, 2023, relating to the situation in the Red Sea, Bab el-Mandeb, and Gulf of Aden due to Houthi attacks on shipping.

#houthi #redsea #shipping #supplychain #babelmandeb #redsea #suezcanal #tankers #bulkers #containerships #chokepoints

Support What's Going on With Shipping via:
Patreon: www.patreon.com/wgowshipping
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00:00 Global Shipping Picture
Marine Traffic
www.marinetraffic.com

06:38 1. Houthi Attacks Update
Israeli-Linked Ship Struck By Drone in Arabian Sea
https://gcaptain.com/israeli-l....inked-ship-struck-by

White House Accuses Iran of Helping Houthi Target Ships
https://gcaptain.com/white-hou....se-accuses-iran-of-h

Red Sea security in limbo as shipping awaits detail of naval operations
https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1....147675/Red-Sea-secur

Spain, Italy, France Decline US Command Of Red Sea Operation Prosperity Guardian
https://gcaptain.com/spain-ita....ly-france-decline-us

French Navy Escorts CMA CGM Ships While US Ships Remain Stranded
https://gcaptain.com/french-na....vy-quits-operation-p

US-led forces in Red Sea will be defensive ‘highway patrol’
https://www.freightwaves.com/n....ews/us-led-forces-in

Shipping’s protectors face ‘exquisite dilemma’ in the Red Sea
https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1....147678/Shippings-pro

18:23 2. Diversions
Carriers still sending ships via Suez
https://container-news.com/car....riers-still-sending-

Red Sea Ripples: Prolonged Voyages, Soaring Fuel Costs, and Escalating Carbon Emissions Concerns
https://gcaptain.com/red-sea-r....ipples-prolonged-voy

Extended Detours: Maersk Reroutes Services Around Cape of Good Hope
https://gcaptain.com/extended-....detours-maersk-rerou

24:22 3. Suez and Panama Canals
How Houthi attacks in the Red Sea impact shipping in the Suez Canal
https://www.reuters.com/market....s/commodities/how-ar

Panama Canal transits plunge as larger ships are turned away
https://www.freightwaves.com/n....ews/panama-canal-tra

Panama Canal to increase daily transits to 24 starting in January
https://pancanal.com/en/panama....-canal-to-increase-d

CMA CGM announces new Panama Canal surcharges
https://container-news.com/cma....-cgm-announces-new-p

November 2023 The McCown Report
https://capitallinkshipping.co....m/wp-content/uploads

33:11 4. What Are the Cost of Diversions?
Red Sea fallout much greater for containers than tankers, bulkers
https://www.freightwaves.com/n....ews/red-sea-fallout-

Red Sea war risk rates ‘still rising’ after doubling in past week
https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1....147660/Red-Sea-war-r

Shipping Lines Impose Surcharges as Red Sea Attack Hit Global Trade
https://gcaptain.com/shipping-....lines-impose-surchar

Higher Freight Rates to Offset Costs from Red Sea Diversions -Fitch
https://gcaptain.com/higher-fr....eight-rates-to-offse

Carriers are 'price gouging', claim shippers as FAK rates skyrocket
https://theloadstar.com/carrie....rs-are-price-gouging

Red Sea crisis: Markets spike, consumers will pay the price
https://container-news.com/red....-sea-crisis-markets-

Box ship owners may benefit from Red Sea and Suez diversions
https://theloadstar.com/box-sh....ip-owners-may-benefi

39:24 5. Other Issues
Empty boxes will be stuck in all the wrong places for new year peak
https://theloadstar.com/empty-....boxes-will-be-stuck-

African Ports Overwhelmed By Red Sea Reroutings
https://gcaptain.com/african-p....orts-overwhelmed-by-

Cargo owners consider airfreight alternative to Red Sea shipping delays
https://www.freightwaves.com/n....ews/cargo-owners-con

45:32 Conclusion

The NETEC Town Hall presentation Preparing Frontline Health Care Workers for Ebola includes a discussion about the current landscape of the Ebola outbreak, infection prevention and control and personal protective equipment (PPE) considerations, lab safety precautions, transport, and training and preparedness needs for frontline workers.

For Town Hall presentation slides and other resources, visit the NETEC Resource Library: https://repository.netecweb.org/items/show/1723

PANELISTS

Vicki Herrera, MS
Research Coordinator
University of Nebraska Medical Center/Nebraska Medicine

Alexander P. Isakov, MD, MPH
Executive Director and Professor of Emergency Medicine
Emory School of Medicine

Aneesh Mehta, MD, FIDSA, FAST
NETEC Co-Principal Investigator
Assistant Director of Transplant Infectious Diseases
Chief of Infectious Diseases Services
Emory University Hospital
Professor of Medicine and of Surgery
Emory University School of Medicine

Jill Morgan, RN
Emory Healthcare, Atlanta, GA

Patricia Ann Tennill RN, BSN
Associate Director of Nursing
NYC Health + Hospitals / Bellevue, New York, NY


CONTACT NETEC

For more information and resources on the current ebola outbreak, visit NETEC on the web at www.netec.org or contact info@netec.org.

Welcome to the “Pan-African Forums”, a series of online conversations amplifying African
perspectives on a range of social, economic and political issues.

Featuring intellectuals from the African continent and diaspora, these forums will enrich ongoing conversations within and amongst the range of conceptual, geographical, ideological and linguistic regions of Africa, envisioning, the
potential and possibilities of working together beyond the narrow confines of nation-states.

The series is hosted by The Elephant, Alliance Française de Nairobi and IFRA-Nairobi from Nairobi, Kenya.

Brian Kagoro provides a broad historical and conceptual overview of Pan Africanism.

Brian Kagoro is the Programme Support Division Director of the Africa Regional Office (AfRO) of the Open Society Foundation (OSF). Prior to that he was Founder and Executive Director of UHAI Africa Group, a governance and development consulting firm with operations in Johannesburg, Harare, and Nairobi.

April 25, 2013

2022 Effective Development Co-operation Summit
13 December
Geneva Room
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The Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation is convening the 2022 Effective Development Co-operation Summit from 12-14 December to set the course towards new sustainable development pathways and move from commitment to action.

Taking place at the midpoint of Agenda 2030 and organized by the Co-Chairs from Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of Congo, Switzerland, and Reality of Aid – Africa, the Summit will address the challenges of increasing needs and financial demands stemming from the pandemic, conflict, climate and economic shocks around the world.

Gathering Ministers and other high-level partners from local and national governments, civil society, the private sector, multilateral development banks, and other development stakeholders, the Summit will look at how the global development co-operation landscape has changed and how we must transform the way we work together to better face the challenges of this new era.

For more information: https://effectivecooperation.org/hlm3
Programme: https://effectivecooperation.org/SummitProgramme
Hashtag #DevCoSummit; Twitter: @DevCooperation

Book Talk with Dr. Robtel Neajai Pailey, author of Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia

DISCUSSANTS:
Dr. Carl Patrick Burrowes, Distinguished Historian and Executive Director of Know Your Self Press
Zirra Banu, PhD Student in African Studies, Howard University

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa

Does dual citizenship reproduce inequalities? Robtel Neajai Pailey grapples with this question and more in her engaging monograph Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Drawing on rich life histories from over two hundred in-depth interviews in West Africa, Europe, and North America, she examines socio-economic change in Liberia, Africa’s first black republic, through the prism of citizenship. Marking how historical policy changes on citizenship and contemporary public discourse on dual citizenship have impacted development policy and practice, Pailey reveals that as Liberia transformed from a country of immigration to one of emigration, so too did the nature of citizenship, thus influencing claims for and against dual citizenship. Her book develops a new model for conceptualising citizenship within the context of crisis-affected states while offering a compelling critique of the neoliberal framing of diasporas and donors as the panacea to post-war reconstruction.

AUTHOR BIO:
Robtel Neajai Pailey is Assistant Professor in International Social and Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. A Liberian scholar-activist working at the intersection of Critical African Studies, Critical Development Studies and Critical Race Studies, she centers her research on how structural transformation is conceived and contested by local, national and transnational actors from ‘crisis’-affected regions of the so-called Global South. Pailey completed BA degrees in African Studies and English Literature at Howard University in 2004, an MSc in African Studies at the University of Oxford in 2007 and a PhD in Development Studies at SOAS, University of London, in 2014.

The theme for the 29th Annual Meetings of the Africa Export Import Bank aims to realise the potential of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement in the post-Covid-19 era, while leveraging on the power of the youth. CNBC Africa brings you the highlights from the meetings as key stakeholders on the continent and beyond explore how to transform the continent’s fortunes through trade.

Host Patrick Bratton speaks with Douglas Yates (Associate Professor of Political Science, American Graduate School in Paris) about the desire for African oil and its relationship to corruption and democracy.

In The Black Republic, Brandon R. Byrd explores the ambivalent attitudes that African American leaders in the post-Civil War era held toward Haiti, the first and only black republic in the Western Hemisphere. Following emancipation, African American leaders of all kinds—politicians, journalists, ministers, writers, educators, artists, and diplomats—identified new and urgent connections with Haiti, a nation long understood as an example of black self-determination. They celebrated not only its diplomatic recognition by the United States but also the renewed relevance of the Haitian Revolution.

While a number of African American leaders defended the sovereignty of a black republic whose fate they saw as intertwined with their own, others expressed concern over Haiti's fitness as a model black republic, scrutinizing whether the nation truly reflected the "civilized" progress of the black race. Influenced by the imperialist rhetoric of their day, many African Americans across the political spectrum espoused a politics of racial uplift, taking responsibility for the "improvement" of Haitian education, politics, culture, and society. They considered Haiti an uncertain experiment in black self-governance: it might succeed and vindicate the capabilities of African Americans demanding their own right to self-determination or it might fail and condemn the black diasporic population to second-class status for the foreseeable future.

When the United States military occupied Haiti in 1915, it created a crisis for W. E. B. Du Bois and other black activists and intellectuals who had long grappled with the meaning of Haitian independence. The resulting demand for and idea of a liberated Haiti became a cornerstone of the anticapitalist, anticolonial, and antiracist radical black internationalism that flourished between World War I and World War II. Spanning the Reconstruction, post-Reconstruction, and Jim Crow eras, The Black Republic recovers a crucial and overlooked chapter of African American internationalism and political thought.

Join Seema Yasmin and Steven Thrasher in conversation to celebrate Yasmin’s newly released poetry collection, If God Is A Virus. This is the full event recording.

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Merging documentary poetry from the epicenter of an epidemic with the story of viruses in the evolution of humanity, If God Is A Virus gives voice to the infected and the virus.

Based on original reporting from West Africa and the United States, and the poet’s experiences as a doctor and journalist, If God Is A Virus charts the course of the largest and deadliest Ebola epidemic in history, telling the stories of Ebola survivors, outbreak responders, journalists and the virus itself. Documentary poems explore which human lives are valued, how editorial decisions are weighed, what role the aid industrial complex plays in crises, and how medical myths and rumor can travel faster than microbes.

These poems also give voice to the virus. Eight percent of the human genome is inherited from viruses and the human placenta would not exist without a gene descended from a virus. If God Is A Virus reimagines viruses as givers of life and even authors of a viral-human self-help book.

Get a copy of If God Is A Virus here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org..../books/1636-if-god-i
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Dr. Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, medical doctor, disease detective and author of If God Is A Virus. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news reporting in 2017 with her team from The Dallas Morning News for coverage of a mass shooting. Yasmin was a disease detective in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where she chased outbreaks in maximum-security prisons, American Indian reservations, border towns and hospitals. Currently, Dr. Yasmin is a Stanford professor, medical analyst for CNN and science correspondent for Conde Nast Entertainment. Find her at seemayasmin.com, Twitter @DoctorYasmin and Instagram: @drseemayasmin.

Steven Thrasher, is a Scientific American columnist and professor at Northwestern University in the Medill School of Journalism and the Institute of Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing. He is the author of the forthcoming book The Viral Underclass: How Racism, Ableism and Capitalism Plague Humans on the Margins, from Celdaon Books and Macmillan Publishing.

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