The Paris climate deal and Africa

Africa’s development and climate change experts are confident that the historic Paris Agreement on Climate Change that was unanimously adopted last December in Paris will be a win for the continent. At the Paris summit, 195 countries agreed to cut greenhouse gas emissions and enhance adaptation in a way that will keep global temperature increase to “well...

Les spécialistes africains du développement et...

Les spécialistes africains du développement et des changements climatiques ne doutent pas que l’accord historique de Paris sur le changement climatique adopté unanimement en décembre dernier à Paris sera avantageux pour le continent. Lors du sommet de Paris, 195 pays ont convenu de réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre et d’améliorer l’adaptation de...

L’accord de Paris et l’Afrique

Les spécialistes africains du développement et des changements climatiques ne doutent pas que l’accord historique de Paris sur le changement climatique adopté unanimement en décembre dernier à Paris sera avantageux pour le continent. Lors du sommet de Paris, 195 pays ont convenu de réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre et d’améliorer l’adaptation de...

Racism against Africans is a reality to be countered - Renu Modi and Rhea D’Silva

The brutal murder of a young Congolese man, Masonda Ketanda Oliver, has blown the lid off a simmering pot of resentment against the treatment of African migrants in India, especially the large student community. Africans come to India for various reasons: informal trade, higher education and healthcare. Medical tourism is marketed aggressively...

To Commemorate the International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda : CODESRIA calls for an end to Racial Discrimination in Africa

To commemorate the International Day of Reflection on the Rwandan Genocide of 1994, the United Nations Information Center (UNIC) and the Regional Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), in partnership with the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and the Embassy of Rwanda in Dakar,...

Vacancy Announcement : CODESRIA Executive Secretary

The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) invites applications from suitably qualified senior African scholars for the position of Executive Secretary in its pan-African Secretariat located in Dakar, Senegal. This position, which will fall vacant in 2017, is the most senior management post in the Executive...

Round Table on the Theme Youth, Democracy and Security

On the occasion of the 86th meeting of its Executive Committee, CODESRIA organized a round table on the theme Youth, Democracy and Security with Professors Nkolo Foe (Vice President of CODESRIA) Slehedine Ben Frej (University of Tunis), Bakary Sambe (Gaston Berger University of St. Louis). The roundtable, which was held on Thursday, 26 May 2016 in the...

Professor Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong: New Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies effective July 1, 2016

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong as the new Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies effective July 1, 2016. Akyeampong, Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, is the senior historian of Africa at Harvard, and specializes in West...

Débat sur le thème: Jeunes, démocratie et sécurité

Jeudi 26 mai 2016, 14H30, au CODESRIA A l’occasion de la 86ème réunion de son Comité Exécutif, le CODESRIA organise une table ronde sur le thème Jeunes, démocratie et sécurité avec les Professeurs Nkolo Foé (Université de Yaoundé I), Slehedine Ben Frej (Université de Tunis), Bakary Samb (Université de Saint-Louis). La table ronde aura lieu le jeudi 26 mai 2016 à...

CODESRIA E-newsletter No. 21: April 2016