INHEA posts new editorial: Building Capacity in Africa: The Need for Coherent Policy and Informed Action
	Mozambique's ex-science minister heads to UNESCO
	INHEA posts new editorial: The Sino-African Frontiers of Aid and Partnership in Higher Education
	Deadline November 1, 2009: Campbell Fellowship for Women Scholar-Practitioners from Developing Nations. For application form and submission specifications go to scholar.app.sarweb.org or contact Scholar Programs scholar@sarsf.org or +1 (505) 954-7201.
•	August 2009: INHEA posts new editorial piece, “Higher Education in Africa post-WCHE: Liberation, affirmation, and consolidation”
•	UNESCO Bamako Cluster Office announces two events in November 2009 as a follow-up to the UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education (WCHE) [pdf]
•	Deadline September 1, 2009: Call for paper or poster proposals for the UNESCO Bamako Cluster November 2009 twin events (see above). Contact the Conference Secretariat, Professor Juma Shabani: j.shabani@unesco.org
•	Southern African Regional Universities Association (SARUA) publishes “SARUA Handbook 2009: A Guide to the Public Universities of Southern Africa“ [pdf]
•	Deadline June 28, 2009: Call for participation in workshop series “Network of Excellence for Qualitative Research in the Social Sciences: Sub-Saharan Africa,” hosted by Ashesi University (Ghana)
•	Deadline June 30, 2009: Call for papers for HERPNET’s Fourth Regional Conference on Higher Education for Sustainable Development in Africa. [pdf]
•	Deadline June 15, 2009: IIE Scholar Rescue Fund (SRF)-- Fellowships for Threatened Academics (Professors, Researchers and Lecturers)
•	Scholars at Risk (SAR)/Network for Education and Academic Rights (NEAR) Ghana workshop report released [pdf]
•	April 22, 2009: INHEA posts new editorial piece
•	USAID and Higher Education for Development (HED) announce winners of the Africa-US Higher Education Initiative Planning Grant Competition
•	Deadline April 3, 2009: Call for papers for the Dubois-Nkrumah-Dunham International Conference on Academic Achievement in Africa and its Diaspora: Challenges and Solutions
•	Deadline April 10, 2009: Applications due for the 2009 USDA Borlaug Women in Science Fellowship Program
•	IIE releases new Study Abroad White Paper on expanding U.S. Study Abroad in the Arab world, including North Africa
•	Final communiqué from November 2008 University Leaders’ Forum on Developing and Retaining the Next Generation of Academics in Africa. [pdf]
•	FY 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act allocated $133 million in mandatory spending to USAID for higher education
•	Southern African Regional Universities Association (SARUA) announces new publication: Mainstreaming Higher Education in National and Regional Development in Southern Africa
•	Southern African Regional Universities Association (SARUA) announces new publication: Towards a Common Future-Higher Education in the SADC Region
•	Southern African Regional Universities Association (SARUA) announces new publication: Opening Access to Knowledge in Southern African Universities
•	Key documents available from AAU Seminar on Regional Harmonization of Higher Education for Africa (Accra, Ghana, February 24-26, 2009)
•	Deadline March 6, 2009: IIE Dissertation Fellowships in Population, Reproductive Health, and Economic Development [pdf]
•	Deadline March 15, 2009: Applications due for Coimbra Group Short Stay Scholarship Programme for African Researchers
•	Does Africa need a pan-African university?
•	GUNI interviews George V. Nyombe, former minister of higher education of Sudan
•	SciDevNet posts editorial by INHEA’s Damtew Teferra: “African research collaborations must be fair and equal”
•	Deadline February 27, 2009: International Fellowships Program (IFP), West Africa
•	Deadline 16 February 2009. Registration for February 25-26 Africa Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (AKTP) Conference (Nairobi, Kenya)
•	NAFSA’s International Educator profiles higher education in sub-Saharan Africa
•	New INHEA editorial posted
•	Deadline January 31, 2009: Fellowships for the Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (SRF) now available
•	Deadline February 2, 2009: Request for Applications (RFA) for Africa-U.S. Higher Education Initiative Planning Grants
•	Revised Deadline: December 15, 2008. U.S.-Africa Higher Education Initiative encourages action on Global Food Security Act
•	MSU names new African Studies Center director
•	AAU announces 2008/2009 Staff Exchange Program
•	November 12, 2008 is African University Day. Celebration set for November 18, 2008
•	The OPEC Fund for International Development Scholarship
•	Diamond Empowerment Fund hosts fundraisers to raise money for higher learning in Africa
•	Third AAU Leadership Development Seminar/Workshop to be held January 12-17, 2009 in Senegal (info in French only)
•	Deadline November 15, 2008: CIES International Travel Award for Distinguished Service in Educational Reform (pdf)
•	Deadline November 19, 2008: UNESCO 2009 Young Professionals Program (YPP) applications
•	Deadline December 28, 2008: AAU African Higher Education Excellence Award (AHEEA) (pdf)
•	CIHE and AAU co-publish Higher Education in Africa: The International Dimension (Teferra & Knight, Eds.)
•	World Bank releases new report, "Accelerating Catch-Up: Tertiary Education for Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa" (pdf)
•	New master's programs will train sustainable development leaders
•	EUA project focuses on Europe-Africa cooperation
•	U. S. Foundations Affirm Commitment To African Higher Education Beyond 10-Year Mark Of Current Partnership
•	Africa-U.S. Higher Education Initiative
•	Higher Education for Development (HED) to manage planning grant competition for the Africa-U.S. Higher Education Initiative
•	"When Criminals Control the Ministry of Education" (International Higher Education, Fall 2008)
•	U.S. Chronicle of Higher Education publishes July 18, 2008 article, "Africa attracts renewed attention from American universities."
•	Newly-formed African Network for the Internationalisation of Education (ANIE) aims to develop research capacity, link experts, and improve practice. (pdf)