{"id":1338,"date":"2020-09-22T16:01:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T23:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsta\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2020-09-22T16:03:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T23:03:10","slug":"1338","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsta\/2020\/09\/22\/1338\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 and Africa Webinar Series, hosted by UBC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posted for your information by request of Tebby Leepile, LFS TA Co-ordinator.
\nContact\u00a0 www.linaubc.ca\/covid19economies,\u00a0 as noted in the poster below, for details or to register.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Dear LINA Community,<\/p>\n

Liu Institute Network for Africa (LINA) at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA), UBC<\/strong>, will be hosting another webinar exploring the impacts of COVID-19 on socioeconomic development across Africa and the measures necessary for the post-pandemic recovery. The webinar will take place next week Wednesday, September 30, from 9am\u201310:30am Pacific Time (Vancouver)<\/span><\/strong>. Please find the poster attached. Registration is free.<\/p>\n

Speakers:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. David Luke, <\/em><\/strong>Coordinator of the African Trade Policy Centre, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa<\/p>\n

Ms. Amanda Dakour\u00e9<\/strong>, Senior Legal Counsel, African Development Bank<\/p>\n

Prof.\u00a0Damilola Olawuyi<\/strong>, Professor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Afe Babalola University, Nigeria, Associate Professor, HBKU College of Law, Qatar, and Vice Chair, International Law Association<\/p>\n

Ms. Caroline Wanjiku Saroni<\/strong>, Chairperson, Advocates Complaints Commission \u2013 Office of the Attorney General; Representative of the Attorney General of Kenya on the National Multi-Agency Command Center \u2013 COVID 19, Government of Kenya<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Moderator:<\/strong>\u00a0Dr. Sara Ghebremusse, Assistant Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, UBC<\/p>\n

Opening remarks<\/strong>: Professor Santa Ono, UBC’s 15th President and Vice-Chancellor.<\/p>\n

To learn more and register, please go to the website of LINA<\/a><\/u>\u00a0or SPPGA<\/a>. You can direct questions to Temi Onifade at temitope@onifade.org<\/a> or info@linaubc.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thank you.
\nTemi Onifade
\nLINA Co-Chair and Vanier Scholar, UBC
\nFor LINA Steering Committee
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LINA Steering Committee: Eseohe Ojo,\u00a0Joseph Ogbede,\u00a0Love-Ese Chile,\u00a0Kimani\u00a0wa Karangu,\u00a0Sylvanna Baugh,\u00a0Tebogo Leepile,\u00a0Temitope Onifade, Temitayo\u00a0Olarewaju<\/p>\n

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Posted for your information by request of Tebby Leepile, LFS TA Co-ordinator. Contact\u00a0 www.linaubc.ca\/covid19economies,\u00a0 as noted in the poster below, for details or to register.\u00a0   Dear LINA Community, Liu Institute Network for Africa (LINA) at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA), UBC, will be hosting another webinar exploring the impacts of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}