Nearly two months after the outbreak of COVID-19 in China, many African students in Wuhan have given up on pleas to their governments to evacuate them from the locked-down city.

The number of African students enrolled in Russian universities has reached more than 17,000, delegates at the recent Russia-Africa Summit and Forum heard.

The internationalisation of HE across Africa is being hampered by myriad problems, including fear by some regulatory bodies that they could lose their authority, delegates at the ninth ANIE conference were told.

Russia plans to boost the number of African students studying in the country and supported by the Russian federation bursaries by at least 12% per year.

The EU is extending €60,000 to support scholarships for a masters degree program to be offered by Kenya’s Kenyatta University.

The government of India will offer 15,000 scholarships to African students over the next five years to pursue online courses from the country’s universities as part of a pan-African e-network project on education and medicine.

The governments of Kenya and Barbados have signed a cooperation agreement that will see the countries establish higher education ties, among other benefits.

The African Education Fund will finance training in post-secondary education on the continent, including Technical Vocational Education and STEM skills.