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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
13 October 2014
10 October 2014
10 October 2014
The ASC Library recently acquired this documentary film about two men who work for the Chinese Railway Engineering Company in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The men represent two different cultures who clash in the dust of the former Belgian colony: Chinese Lao Yang and Congolese Eddy, who speaks Mandarin fluently. An occasionally hilarious report of a less than stable working relationship, which also reflects the unstoppable rise of China. The film is the subject of our latest Acquisition Highlight.
10 October 2014
Just a few days left before the Africa Works! conference takes off! The ASC and the NABC are organizing this international conference on 16 & 17 October. 600+ participants have already joined in. In addition to keynotes by e.g. Lilianne Ploumen (Netherlands Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation) and Julia Duncan-Cassell (Liberia Minister of Gender and Development), forty workshops will be held. Check out the conference website www.africaworks.nl for the latest news and - during the conference - films and interviews.
10 October 2014
The Africa Works! conference on 16 & 17 October was a big success! More than 700 people joined in the Holiday Inn in Leiden. The conference brought together knowledge institutes, companies, NGOs and policymakers to create new partnerships. Julia Duncan-Cassell, the Liberia Minister of Gender and Development, was guest of honour. Hans Docter, Dutch Special Envoy on Ebola, received a petition that was drawn up during the conference. Lilianne Ploumen, Minister of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, closed the conference. Read on to find some of the keynote speeches and an overview of media coverage. Have a look at the pictures!
09 October 2014
ASC researcher Akinyinka Akinyoade and Bisola Adebayo from Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, currently drafted to the Ebola Emergency Operations Centre (EEOC) in Lagos, have written an ASC web article about the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and elsewhere. The article goes beyond giving statistical updates of the spread of the Ebola virus; it highlights medical as well as socio-cultural issues, like the strong advise not to shake hands anymore - 'The social soul is now seen as a possible route of transmission of the dreadful disease' -, patients suffering from other diseases getting rejected at medical facilities, and rising foodstuff prices.
08 October 2014
The ASC has produced three brand new thematic maps. One in cooperation with Nuffic: 'Dutch cooperation programmes to strengthen post-secondary education and training in Africa (1996-2013)', one in cooperation with the Rotterdam School of Management: 'The challenge of Dutch sustainable diplomacy', and one in cooperation with the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs: 'Composition of financial flows to Sub-Saharan African countries: ten years into the Monterrey Consensus on the Millennium Development Goals'. The maps can be ordered at the ASC, free of charge.
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