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    Elijah Buol, OAM

    Elijah Buol, who is currently completing a doctorate in law at the ANU, was appointed CEO of Act for Peace in 2024. https://actforpeace.org.au/articles/new-incoming-ceo-to-champion-the-voice-of-displaced-people/

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    Fekerte’s Ethiopian restaurant to close

    Bad news for ANU students and many others. According to The Canberra Times of 30 May 2024 Fekerte Tesfaye is to close her restaurant after introducing Ethiopian cuisine to Canberra over 30 years ago. The closing date is not stated.

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    ANU’s African Demographers Get Up.

    Demographer Audrey Kalindi has been awarded her doctorate for her dissertation: “Population Level Burden and Inequities in Maternal Health Care Utilisation in Zambia” The Dean of CASS  has announced that ‘Associate Professor Bernard Baffour has been appointed as Associate Dean for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA). Bernard moves into this role, having been a…

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    The Racial Wealth Divide, Elites and Tax Justice

    Public lecture by Prof Mike Savage, London School of Economics ‘using recent research in the UK and South Africa, Professor Savage focusesspecifically on how legal devices underwrite wealth accumulation., Tuesday 23 April 20245.30 pm – 7.30 pm AEST    Light refreshments will be served at 5.30Level 1 Foyer and Auditorium (1.28)RSSS Building, 146 Ellery Crescent…

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    Kalindi on Child Comorbidity in Zambia

    Audrey Kalindi will co-author a paper on ‘Disaggregated Level Child Comorbidity in Zambia: Application of Small Area Estimation method’ at the Population Association of America 2024 Annual Meeting, April 18 , Columbus, Ohio.https://submissions.mirasmart.com/PAA2024/ViewSubmissionFile.aspx?sbmID=5002&mode=html&validate=false 

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    Technology Transfers Between China and Ethiopia

    ‘Does China’s BRI and Private Investment Abroad Help Industrial Development in the Third World? Tenuous Technology Transfers Between China and Ethiopia’ Speaker Dr Liang Chen Hosted by Australian Centre on China in the World Date and timeThu 14th Mar 2024, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm AEDT LocationSeminar Room + Online, Australian Centre on China in the…

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    Parry’s Thursday seminar on irrigation in southern African

    See Susan’s biography in yesterday’s post. The Thursday talk on campus is on ‘Transforming irrigation in southern Africa’  Join from the meeting link https://aciar.webex.com/aciar/j.php?MTID=mb04a4f41c0c57e31bbe3e46f68ab0097 From Susan.O’Connell @aciar.gov.au Join by meeting number Meeting number (access code): 2650 838 7290Meeting password: GPqpyMPM352 Tap to join from a mobile device (attendees only) +61-2-9338-2221,,26508387290## Australia Toll Join by phone…

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    Dr Karen Parry’s Biography

    From: https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/parry-k Circular Food System project: Theme Leader for Equity & InclusionANU College of ScienceE: Karen.Parry@anu.edu.au I have recently completed my PhD entitled ‘Loosening the ties that bind: institutional analysis of young people’s livelihoods on smallholder irrigation schemes in Zimbabwe’. My research was linked to an ACIAR-funded project ‘Transforming irrigation in southern Africa’ (TISA), which…

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    Kirsty Wissing returns to ANu and Rachael Gross continues

     Dr Kirsty Wissing, whose ANU thesis was on water in Ghana, has  returned to Canberra on a 3-year ANU-CSIRO research fellowship considering Indigenous water values and flood mitigation strategies in the Northern Rivers region in NSW.  She is housed in the School of History, Culture and Language in the Coombs Building, ANU, and at the CSIRO.  .

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    Africa seen as an important future source of international students

    A report by The Lygon Group, commissioned by Universities Australia, suggests that by 2050, the nations of sub-Saharan Africa will be the “new China and perhaps India” – Australia’s current top two sources for international students. “Meanwhile, the continent of Africa is projected to change in the opposite direction with a steady growth in the…

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