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IUIU Wins Solidarity Award At The 2nd RUFORUM Triennial Conference and 20th RUFORUM Annual General Meeting

• 16th August, 2024 3:39pm

The Rector of IUIU, Prof. Ismail Simbwa Gyagenda accompanied by Prof. Muhammad al Nour, the Dean of Agribusiness and Natural Resources Science and Dr. hatim El Amin, the Director of Endowment ar in Namibia attending the 2nd RUFORUM Triennial Conference and 20th RUFORUM Annual General Meeting hosted by the University of Namibia and 3 other Namibia Universities.

RUFORUM stands for the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture and it has a Consortium of 173 Universities in Africa. Some of its major partners are Master Card Foundation, African Development Bank, Carnegie Foundation and others. It's Secretariat is housed at Makerere University.

At the closing ceremony of the same, IUIU was awarded a Solidarity Award for the tremendous assistance to the Sudanese Universities, which are facing enormous difficulties due to the conflict in Sudan.

The Certificate of Appreciation was handed to Prof. Gyagenda by the RUFORUM Board Chairperson VC of the University of Bamenda, Cameroon, Prof. Theresia Nkuo-Akenji, and this attracted a standing ovation from the hundreds of participants.