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...
Kenya is back into the Council under Category (c) for the biennium 2024 to 2025, and it will represent Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, the Horn of Africa region and the island states of the western Ind...
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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. ...
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...
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...
In recent days, locust swarms have begun to impact South Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania, having already decimated crops throughout Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, Eritrea and Djibouti. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations earlier this week called the situation “extremely al...
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...