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This submission drawers on recent policy reports and independent inquiries of the APPG for Africa as well as reflections from an parliamentarians, civil society, academics and officials that we have engaged with at various meetings. In particular the July 2019 report of the APPG on UK Visa Reusals... more

This is the submission of the APPG for Africa together with the Royal African Society to the Trade Bill Committee in February 2018. This submission is based on the APPG report of February 2017 of UK-Africa trade post-Brexit. For more infromation on the work of the Trade Bill Committee and other... more

  This week the UK hosted the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in London, with various activities for 53 Commonwealth member states, including 19 African countries. We were delighted to organise the following three events for our corporate members and partners on Tuesday 17th... more

Africa Writes is back! Friday 30 June – Sunday 2 July 2017 Brought to you by The Royal African Society   Join us for an exciting summer weekend at the British Library celebrating the best of contemporary literature from Africa and the diaspora. Last year we were joined by 67... more

This morning, The Royal African Society (RAS) hosted a business breakfast entitled “Japan & Africa: A new kind of relationship?”, in association with the Government of Japan. The event was a pre-cursor to the 6th Tokyo International Conference on African... more

A report from the Africa All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) and think tank Polygeia has suggested that initial awareness messaging may have exacerbated the fear felt by communities affected by Ebola and even discouraged those with symptoms from seeking medical attention.... more

Image Credit: Yves Salmon, Africa Writes, 2014 Africa Writes 2015 – Call out for Volunteers   Job Title Africa Writes 2015 Volunteer Working hours Minimum of 2 shifts throughout Africa Writes (3 - 5 July... more

Image Credit:  DFID A convoy of vehicles loaded with generators and other supplies from DFID arrives at the Kerry Town Treatment Unit in Sierra Leone.  It has been more than a year since the start of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa and a disease which started with a fearsome... more

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... more

This week the Africa APPG held a parliamentary roundtable with the African Union’s Peace and Security Commissioner,  Ambassador Smail Chergui and chaired by Lord Steel. The Ambassador explained the AU Framework for Peace and Security, covering the mechanisms of the Peace and Security... more

RAS council member Susana Edjang, an international development, global health and policy expert who currently serves as Economic, Social and Development Affairs Officer for the Executive Office of the Secretary-General, United Nations, is one of thirteen professionals selected for the 2014 Yale... more

Senior BBC presenter and host the BBC World News, Zeinab Badawi, has been appointed as the new chairperson of the Royal African Society. Richard Dowden, Executive Director, Royal African Society, said: “It is tremendous that the RAS will have a new Chair who is well known for her commitment... more

A submission by the Africa APPG to the BIS Select Committee inquiry on the extractive industries, drawing on Members' experiences of the extractive industries in Africa.