Conseils à l’intention des nombreux étudiants qui souhaitent suivre un cursus outre-Atlantique : ne pas se borner aux facs les plus connues, profiter de la flexibilité des options et garder à l’esprit l’existence de nombreuses bourses.
The U.S. African Development Foundation (USADF) is a small but effective tool in the U.S. Government’s Foreign Assistance toolkit. USADF is on the frontier of development, working directly with Africans on the ground to combat some of Africa’s most difficult development and foreign policy challenges with programs to increase the U.S. diplomatic and development presence in the hardest to reach areas of extreme poverty.
Quand le job rêvé se transforme en cauchemar: les tribulations d'un fonctionnaire éthiopien de la Banque Mondiale. In 1978, my father, Yonas Biru, fled Ethiopia to escape a reign of terror imposed by a communist junta. His endeavor was risky. Anyone who was caught fleeing was shot dead on the spot. He fled under the cover of night with only the clothes he wore, a plastic water canteen and an Ethiopian Coptic cross.
This year, the 24th annual Wharton Africa Business Forum will be held at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and the Historic Loews Hotel in downtown Philadelphia on November 18-20th 2016.
Administered by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS), PEER is a competitive grants program that invites scientists in developing countries, partnered with USG-supported collaborators, to apply for funds to support research and capacity-building activities on topics with strong potential development impacts. This innovative program is designed to leverage the investments other USG-supported agencies have made in scientific research and training while supporting the initiatives of developing country scientists.
