Elias Ngalame

1 week ago | universityworldnews.com | Elias Ngalame

AFRICA Academic experts and policy-makers have set the stage for a long-term initiative aimed at strengthening the synergies between economic integration and higher education development across Africa. The urgency to connect higher education policy and economic integration policy areas and to launch a training programme for this interface was the key to driving development in Africa, the experts said.

1 week ago | universityworldnews.com | Elias Ngalame

AFRICA Achieving ambitious development targets, including the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the African Union’s Agenda 2063, will require more substantial leveraging of the power of science, technology and innovation (STI) to fight Africa’s multidimensional vulnerabilities and move from crisis to sustainable development.

3 weeks ago | universityworldnews.com | Elias Ngalame

AFRICA The critical and growing importance of empowering Africa’s youths through training and investment in skills development is a key message in the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa’s (UNECA) 2025 economic report on Africa, which focuses broadly on the continent’s growth and the success of the African Continental Free Trade Area, or AfCFTA, programme.

4 weeks ago | universityworldnews.com | Elias Ngalame

CAMEROON The names of at least 300 university lecturers and other staff feature on a contentious list of people and organisations who are calling for the renewal of the presidential candidature of Paul Biya (92), who has been the head of state for 42 years after serving as the prime minister for seven years.