The African Leadership Centre (ALC)
cordially invites you to a Public Seminar entitled:
Ebola in Africa: Can the African Union handle the challenge?
By Semiha Abdulmelik
The Ebola crisis in West Africa has generated a great deal of discussion and debate recently. However there has been little focus on the response of the pan-continental organisation, African Union (AU), to the situation from an institutional and normative perspective. The speaker shares insights on the approaches and mechanisms that have been deployed by the AU in an attempt to manage the Ebola crisis as well as its regional implications amidst the complex challenges facing the African continent.
Speaker: Semiha Abdulmelik
Chair: Dr. Eka Ikpe
Semiha Abdulmelik is an AWDF sponsored fellow of the Peace and Security Fellowship for African Women at the African Leadership Centre. Semiha has worked for local and international NGOs, as well as the UN, with a focus on governance, civil society, and human rights programming in Sudan, South Sudan, and Ethiopia as well as policy and advocacy in the area of humanitarian affairs, conflict, and post-conflict reconstruction at the African Union level. Semiha has published an article on ‘’The African Women’s Movement and Pan-Africanism: Two Ships Passing Silently in the Night?’’ in the African Women’s Journal as part of the O/AU Jubilee celebrations.
Room K4U.12 King’s Building, Strand, London WC2R 2LS
Wednesday 11th of February 2015
11.00- 12:00
All welcome!
Even before we hear from Semiha, I believe the AU can definitely handle the Ebola challenge if it puts its acts to together. Nigeria did! Why not a whole force like the AU? Let’s hear you Semila.