RAS News

The RAS News blog features news on our latest activities and selected content from African Arguments Online. 

Africa APPG - Mitigating a major food security crisis in West Africa: The impact of Ebola on agriculture and rural livelihoods
Friday, 13 February 2015
Written by Hetty Bailey, Africa APPG Policy & Research Coordinator
Market in Kolahun City, Lofa County, Liberia      Image credit: FAO Liberia (This is a memo from the joint meeting with the Africa APPG on APPG on Agriculture & Food for Development on 2nd February 2015. Audio recording available here.) In 2014 the Famine Early Warning Network predicted that, if the Ebola outbreak continued unabated, West Africa could experience a... more
Africa APPG - Ebolanomics: a pharmaceutical question
Monday, 2 February 2015
Written by Hetty Bailey (Africa APPG Research Coordinator)
Image credit: The New Yorker The is a meeting memo from the joint event in parliament of the Africa APPG and Global Health APPG on the 19th January 2015. An audio recording of the event is available here. The Ebola virus was discovered in 1976 but despite this, no vaccine for the disease is yet available, although GSK have now begun clinical trials for their vaccine in the... more
Africa APPG - John Vine on visas: There is a lack of procedural fairness & inconsistency in decision making
Friday, 30 January 2015
Written by Hetty Bailey, Coordinator for the Africa APPG
On the 28th January 2015, the Africa APPG met with John Vine CBE QPM, the recently retired Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration. The APPG is currently making enquiries into the current decision making process for visa applications from Africans attempting to visit the UK and John Vine has carried out a number of in-depth inquiries into the UK visa application... more
Africa APPG - Roger Nord of the IMF warns UK Parliamentarians the Ebola outbreak could have long term economic impacts
Thursday, 11 December 2014
Written by Hetty Bailey (Africa APPG Research Coordinator)
Roger Nord, Deputy Director for Africa at the IMF recently attended a parliamentary high-level roundtable arranged by the Africa APPG and chaired by Lord Steel, the APPG's President. Mr Nord presented the recently released Regional Economic Outlook on Sub-Saharan Africa and said that despite figures showing the African GDP as a whole is growing at about 5 percent in 2014 and 5¾... more
Africa APPG - Combating Ebola: has the media helped or hindered?
Tuesday, 9 December 2014
Written by Hetty Bailey (Africa APPG Research Coordinator)
  Image credit: Huffington Post On the 8th December 2014, the Africa APPG together with the Global Health APPG and BBC World Service held a panel discussion with Parliamentarians to discuss the role of the media in the Ebola outbreak. Below is a brief overview; the full recording of the event is available here. Among those in attendance were Paul Burstow MP, Mark Durkan MP, Meg Hillier... more

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