This year’s winner wasAndrew Sheroubiwho specializes in Chemical and Biological Engineering. Andrew has already used his humanitarian skills in places as diverse as Uganda and the Caribbean and also persuaded the UBC Engineering Faculty to put together an undergraduate course in Humanitarian Engineering...
These are the words of “Emma”, a 13-year-old girl from Beni, a city in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) near its border with Uganda. Emma’s mother “Grace” was still in school when she met and became involved with a Uruguayan soldier working in DRC as a...
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Kenya’s battle for the seat comes barely a month after it lost the IMO secretary-general post to Arsenio Velasco of the Republic of Panama who takes over on January 1 next year. “Kenya reaffirms its commitment to support the IMO regional presence office in Nairobi, for the technical coope...
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Surely, I’ll have a lot more to say about Cegeps as I work in one. The connection to 2008 is much more personal. At the time, I was going through a difficult transition in my life. Questioning all sorts of things. Growing dissatisfied with the model for university careers (especially...
In August, Uganda confirmed the nationwide installation of Huawei surveillance cameras with face recognition capabilities. Similarly, the Singapore government plans to install facial recognition cameras on its lampposts, a contract that Chinese start-up Yitu has bid for, according to local reports. ...
Several other African countries, including Cameroon and Uganda, sided to no avail with Congo and said they would lodge a complaint. The move by Huang to silence Congo raised concerns that the approved framework might not be legal. That prompted a scramble by Brazilian and Indonesia...
A BA in English is a sound basis for many careers in teaching, in diplomacy, in international business, in journalism. So we can see that the English language is growing both in popularity and opportunity. In China, English is a highly sought after skill, and those who possess it have nu...
A BA in English is a sound basis for many careers in teaching, in diplomacy, in international business, in journalism. So we can see that the English language is growing both in popularity and opportunity. In China, English is a highly sought after skill, and those who possess it have nu...