“A new project concept note had been written, but the coordination process within the Ministry of Education is still on-going,” she said. “The German Embassy, DAAD and the future German partner universities await the new proposal,” the official told The PIE News, without disclosing further details. It was expected to take students from across the Eastern Africa region, hosted and financed by Kenya with a German partner university facilitating knowledge transfer, and for purposes of benchmarking. The agency lamented that plans for the university had stalled since 2017 with no progress despite the German side being ready to sign the intergovernmental agreement to set up the institution. While the Kenya project has stalled, plans for a similar project in north Africa between Germany and Egypt are underway.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 19, 2019 12:56 UTC