{"id":4279,"date":"2015-02-05T13:42:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T13:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/?p=4279"},"modified":"2015-08-12T15:55:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T15:55:27","slug":"ebola-in-africa-can-the-african-union-handle-the-challenge-an-upcoming-talk-by-semiha-abdulmelik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/ebola-in-africa-can-the-african-union-handle-the-challenge-an-upcoming-talk-by-semiha-abdulmelik\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ebola in Africa: Can the African Union handle the challenge?&#8217; An Upcoming Talk by Semiha Abdulmelik"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span lang=\"en\"><\/strong>The African Leadership Centre (ALC)<\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">cordially invites you to a Public Seminar entitled:<\/h1>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ebola in Africa: Can the African Union handle the challenge?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>By Semiha Abdulmelik<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Speaker: <\/strong><strong>Semiha Abdulmelik<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><strong>Chair: Dr. Eka Ikpe<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Semiha Abdulmelik is an AWDF sponsored \u00a0fellow of the<strong> Peace and Security Fellowship for African Women <\/strong>at the<strong> African Leadership Centre. <\/strong>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 \u2018\u2019The African Women\u2019s Movement and Pan-Africanism: Two Ships Passing Silently in the Night?\u2019\u2019 in the African Women\u2019s Journal as part of the O\/AU Jubilee celebrations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Room K4U.12 King\u2019s Building, Strand, London WC2R 2LS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><strong>Wednesday 11<sup>th<\/sup> of February 2015<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><strong>11.00- 12:00<\/strong><strong>\u200b<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><strong>All welcome!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[413,182,414,415,426,425,423],"class_list":["post-4279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-abdulmelik","tag-africa","tag-african-leadership-centre","tag-alc","tag-ebola","tag-peace-and-security","tag-semiha"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Ebola in Africa: Can the African Union handle the challenge?&#039; An Upcoming Talk by Semiha Abdulmelik - The African Women&#039;s Development Fund (AWDF)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/ebola-in-africa-can-the-african-union-handle-the-challenge-an-upcoming-talk-by-semiha-abdulmelik\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&#039;Ebola in Africa: Can the African Union handle the challenge?&#039; An Upcoming Talk by Semiha Abdulmelik - The African Women&#039;s Development Fund (AWDF)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/ebola-in-africa-can-the-african-union-handle-the-challenge-an-upcoming-talk-by-semiha-abdulmelik\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The African Women&#039;s Development Fund (AWDF)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-02-05T13:42:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-08-12T15:55:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Communications\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Communications\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/awdf.org\\\/OldSite\\\/ebola-in-africa-can-the-african-union-handle-the-challenge-an-upcoming-talk-by-semiha-abdulmelik\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/awdf.org\\\/OldSite\\\/ebola-in-africa-can-the-african-union-handle-the-challenge-an-upcoming-talk-by-semiha-abdulmelik\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Communications\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/awdf.org\\\/OldSite\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0944a265659ce379489416a043736097\"},\"headline\":\"&#8216;Ebola in Africa: Can the African Union handle the challenge?&#8217; An Upcoming Talk by Semiha Abdulmelik\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-02-05T13:42:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-08-12T15:55:27+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/awdf.org\\\/OldSite\\\/ebola-in-africa-can-the-african-union-handle-the-challenge-an-upcoming-talk-by-semiha-abdulmelik\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":555,\"commentCount\":1,\"keywords\":[\"Abdulmelik\",\"Africa\",\"African Leadership Centre\",\"ALC\",\"ebola\",\"Peace and Security\",\"Semiha\"],\"articleSection\":[\"blog\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/awdf.org\\\/OldSite\\\/ebola-in-africa-can-the-african-union-handle-the-challenge-an-upcoming-talk-by-semiha-abdulmelik\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/awdf.org\\\/OldSite\\\/ebola-in-africa-can-the-african-union-handle-the-challenge-an-upcoming-talk-by-semiha-abdulmelik\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/awdf.org\\\/OldSite\\\/ebola-in-africa-can-the-african-union-handle-the-challenge-an-upcoming-talk-by-semiha-abdulmelik\\\/\",\"name\":\"'Ebola in Africa: Can the African Union handle the challenge?' 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