On Thursday we woke up early to visit Seife’s, a coffee distributor run by the Swedish-Ethiopian Seife Tuuloskorpi. Seife’s is not only very passionate about coffee but it also has a conscious approach to coffee production and distribution and works closely with local farmers to...
We woke up to a fresh morning on the Wednesday in Addis. This forenoon, we were about to meet with the African Child Policy Forum (ACPF), a Panafrican advocacy organisation based in Ethiopia. We were warmly welcomed to fantastic premises. We all agreed that we wouldn't...
After starting off our Tuesday with breakfast, we went to the Red Terror Memorial Museum. It was a small but very important and moving place, as it explained the rise and acts by the communist regime between 1974 and 1991, and the killing and torture...
Second day of the trip, a day full of meetings! We had breakfast at our hotel and walk to the first one: the Swedish Embassy in Ethiopia. We were received with a traditional swedish fika by our hosts Helena and Alicia. During the meeting, they...
Welcome to the UF travel blog! The destination of this spring has been Ethiopia, a country in the horn of Africa that is currently undergoing a lot of political reforms and structural changes. On the fourth of May, 16 travelers set of to a long...
“ - I don’t want your hope, I want you to panic.” Greta Thunberg has during the last year stated many facts about the climate crisis we are all facing and why we all have reason to panic. But why should we panic!? Not that we don’t...
Uppsala Association of International Affairs welcome all members to the General Elections Meeting on May 21st 2019! The meeting will include the election of all board positions, an accountant and the election committee. Attendance and voting rights are given to members who have, at the latest twenty-one...
Few—if any—countries in modern times have experienced cataclysmic tragedy of the kind that befell Rwanda in 1994: the genocide against the Tutsi. The country has since undergone a fast transformation. As with any extensive and fast reform, not everything has been easy or straight forward....
Den 26:e maj väntar EU-valet. I ett läge där så väl EU-kritiska som EU-optimistiska röster växer sig allt starkare är detta val av stor betydelse för hur framtidens EU kommer att se ut. För att ladda upp inför valet och öka på kunskapen om EU...