Tag: South Africa

July 11, 2019. Launch ceremony at the University for Development Studies in Wa, Ghana, with more than 100 high-ranking participants, students and researchers from six West African countries and Germany on June 26, 2019. The West African Center for Sustainable Rural Transformation will address technological, socio-economic, socio-political, administrative and cultural aspects of sustainable rural transformation.…

Application Deadline: 8 August 2019. The African Investigative Journalism Conference is an annual event organized by the Journalism Programme of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University) in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is Africa’s premier investigative journalism conference. The conference gives African and international investigative journalists an opportunity to learn new skills, hear about the…

Application Deadline: 26 September 2019 at 18:00 UTC+2, In 2015, under the umbrella of its Creativity and Innovation Initiative, the GCSP and its Geopolitics and Global Futures Programme established a prize in order to recognise deserving individuals or organisations that have an innovative approach to addressing international security challenges. The prize is designed to reach…

Application Deadline: July 15, 2019. The Africa Regional Office of Open Society Foundations (AfRO) works alongside OSF’s four regional foundations and fourteen thematic programs. AfRO conducts programmatic work which complements other programs and takes the lead on advocacy and research at regional and continental level. The Africa Regional Office works in three ways: responding to…

Application Deadline: August 6th 2019  Applications have opened for the coveted 6-month 2020 IBIP internship at Boeing in Seattle. Successful interns on the 2019 programme included Kenyan students Aogah Winnie Achieng and Monica Nyawira who received valuable hands on experience of a variety of disciplines, including business operations, finance, marketing, and strategy in the aviation…