In December 2016, the University of Khartoum in Sudan, East Africa, approved the promotion of Dr. Samia Satti Osman Mohamed Nour to the status of full Professor of Economics. Prior to this, she gained a PhD in Economics from Maastricht University in 2005 and remains an Affiliated Researcher at UNU-MERIT. With this promotion, Nour becomes the first female professor in the Faculty of Economic and Social Studies, University of Khartoum since its establishment in 1958; the first female professor of ...
Takahiro Utsumi is one of our many students who also works for another UN organisation — in this case the World Food Programme (WFP) in Khartoum, Sudan. He came to Maastricht for our unique course on Evidence-Based Policy Research Methods (EPRM), to improve his everyday work and long-term career as a food security analyst. We caught up with him in mid-December 2016. ••• You’re a Japanese analyst working for a UN programme in East Africa. What exactly do you do? I’m a Food Security Analyst workin...
Technology can be a double-edged sword for emerging economies. In Sudan, information and communication technology (ICT) has proved an important tool for producing and transferring knowledge. Yet it has also created a new digital divide, which has only deepened existing inequalities. The question therefore arises: how can countries like Sudan ‘catch up’ without increasing social exclusion? Dr. Samia Nour’s new book, Information and Communication Technology in Sudan: An Economic Analys...