A wonderful evening hosted by PfAL to celebrate and welcome new students to #LSE and the Programme of African Leadership

📣Upcoming event! Join this panel of experts to discuss #diaspora & #innovativefinance .

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🏢 LSE Campus, PAN G.01
📅Thursday 10 November 2022
🕕 6:00pm to 8:00pm
🥂 Networking reception, 8:00pm to 9:00pm

#LSEevents #Africaevents #ADFC

States default if they run large deficits and lack the liquidity to settle outstanding obligations.

To understand Africa’s debt crises of the 1980s, and the likely crises ahead, we must factor in political factors as well as economic. Read on ⬇️

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In this piece about creating #PublicAuthority in conflicted societies, Professor Teddy Brett draws on interactions between modern and traditional governance systems.

The Ugandan political transition demonstrates the efficacy of this approach CPAID_LSE

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In this article published by Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa, I raised pertinent questions as to whether #climatechange is to be blamed for severe flooding in Nigeria and if the current interventions are strong enough to mitigate subsequent floods.
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#Flood ingInNigeria
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Wearing our new PfAL t-shirts 😎 ready to welcome the new cohort to the Programme for African Leadership this afternoon! #PfAL12 #AfricaatLSE

Professor Teddy Brett draws on interactions between modern and traditional systems of #PublicAuthority .

States are better enabled to build inclusive political and organisational structures with a combination of these systems. Read on 👇

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To ramp up the production of goods & services, Nigeria 🇳🇬 must move away from a one-size-fits-all protectionist trade policy.

For Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa, our Poorva Karkare & Michael Odijie close in on rice & pharmaceutical production to argue for more nuance

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Thanks to all who came to laugh, learn and listen to the amazing stories, music and poetry at the #UbuntuCafé #AfricaAtLSE PfAL LSE Students' Union

“What Africa Trades” & The AfCFTA - our Status, Opportunities, Challenges. The discussions were rich! #AfCFTA #UNECA LSE Law School FriedrichEbert European Parlament

FLIA's David Luke and Melaku Desta presented key contents of the African Trade Policy Review to Joachim Schuster MEP, Kelebogile Kgathi, Sena Boateng and Tokozile Xasa and other delegates in yesterday's roundtable discussion #ATPR #AfCFTA

2022 has brought severe weather conditions to Nigeria - floods and landslides have indicated the country's vulnerability to climate change.

Dr Olasunkanmi Okunola evaluates the policy commitments and interventions issued to mitigate these occurrences.

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Congratulations to FLIA Visiting Fellow Juliet Bedford who has been honoured by the The RAI and awarded the Marsh Award for Anthropology in the World! #Anthrologica 🎉

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Fair sequencing before entering reciprocal trade deals is key for the #AfCFTA to succeed. One of the messages David Luke and Melaku Desta are sharing in Brussels with European External Action Service - EEAS 🇪🇺 and others. More in the forthcoming Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa “Africa Trade Policy Review 2023”.

Rethinking Revolution from Ethiopia to Iran - hosted by @LSEMiddleEastt, LSE Gender and the FLIA.

🗣 Arash Davari, Ethiopia In Theory & Nazanin Shahrokni

📅 Tuesday 1st November
🕑 3:00-4:00 PM

🔗 Register now! ow.ly/lte450LhkzL

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With the resurgence of autocrats and military regimes across Africa, we must examine their peculiar stake in debt default.

Default avoidance and debt service contribute to autocrats’ economic survival. The anonymous post on the blog today, examines how.

blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/20…

Want to work for British Politics and Policy?

We're recruiting a new Managing Editor to run the blog and promote evidence-based discussion on British policy debates internationally.

⏰Deadline: 26 October
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/59…