Author: Lasse Juhl Morthorst

No poverty / Peace, justice and strong institutions / Reduced inequalities / Reviews / Zero hunger

Uganda’s Unique Refugee-Hosting Model: Between Reciprocal Innovation and Challenges

Lasse Juhl Morthorstby Lasse Juhl Morthorst

While mixed migration to the industrialised world captures most media and political attention, the reality is that approximately 85 percent of the worlds refugees and asylum seekers are hosted in so-called developing countries. Uganda is, as a low-income nation at the size of the UK, hosting more than any other African country. Uganda, further has the world’s third largest refugee population, after Turkey and Pakistan, with more than 1.3 million refugees by September 2019, of which more than one million has arrived since 2017.

Industry, innovation and infrastructure / Opinions / Quality education

“People expected political transformations and democratisation in a second”

Lasse Juhl Morthorstby Lasse Juhl Morthorst

In September 2018, Mostafa Shehata defended his PhD Dissertation: “Newspaper and Social Network Sites in Egypt After the 2011 Revolution: Connective Action, Communication Power and Mediatization of Politics”, at Roskilde University (RUC) in Denmark. He concluded that “media can provide a good space for mobilisation for a specific amount of time. But in the long run, you will need strong presence ‘on the ground’, and organisations to support your mobility and your movement”.