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A desire to contribute to nation-building and improve standards of universities within Somalia is luring Somali intellectuals to return home to work in academia.

Professor Abdullahi Barise, the founding president of the City University of Mogadishu, said his institutions and others were welcoming this increasing number of foreign-educated Somalia lecturers and professors.…

Brazil’s biofuel industry is putting pressure on the country’s new President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to make significant reversals to the laissez-faire policies implemented by his right-wing predecessor Jair Bolsonaro to boost the domestic market in 2023. The sector is concerned about a sluggish economy, which the OECD says will grow just 1.2% in 2023 (inflation stands at 5.77% – January figures).…

The potential of the ‘metaverse’, the burgeoning network of 3D virtual worlds focused on social connection, for generating sales and exposure is proving extremely attractive for fashion brands. While digital clothes in the metaverse are never physically worn or touched, designers are harnessing virtual reality for marketing and helping consumers experience fashion in new digital ways.…

Global trade officials at the World Customs Association (WCO) are assessing how the international customs classification of goods could be reformed to promote the trade in sustainable goods, such as organic cotton fabrics.

They are examining changing the WCO’s Harmonized System (HS), which links traded goods to six-digit codes, recognised by all jurisdictions participating in the global trading system, so that special HS codes can be allocated to goods deemed sustainable – including clothes made from recycled fabrics.…

Political instability in the west African republic of Burkina Faso has been disrupting long-standing government plans to leverage the country’s cotton production to generate growth in its clothing and textile spinning, weaving, knitting, sewing and finishing segments.

The country’s cotton production is significant, with the US agriculture department predicting in September that production for the August 2022-July 2023 marketing year would be 1.15 million 480-pound bales.…

A new higher education law recently approved in December (2022) in Mozambique establishes and extends the power of the National Council for the Assessment of Higher Education Quality (CNAQ – Conselho Nacional de Avaliação da Qualidade) to undertake quality assurance in the country’s higher education.…

The Netherlands’ education, culture and science minister Robbert Dijkgraaf’s call for universities and universities of applied sciences (UAS) to stop participating in international education fairs until further notice would be a step too far, university chairs have told University World News (UWN).…

Turkey is the world’s largest Oriental tobacco leaf producer, but harvests have been impacted over the past two years by unusually hot summers and drought. Ranking 15th in tobacco production worldwide, according to the Izmir-based Aegean Tobacco Exporters’ Association (ATEA), the 2022 tobacco crop is expected to be like 2021.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission’s new proposal for a European Union (EU) packaging and packaging waste regulation (1) is not realistic, European tobacco experts have told Tobacco Journal International (TJI). Their comments come as negotiations begin between the Commission (the EU’s executive), the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers – representing member states – on the draft text.…

Britain’s Brexit from the European Union (EU), in full from December 31, 2020, may have freed the UK government from having to follow EU tobacco legislation, except for Northern Ireland, which remains within the EU’s single market for goods, but the tobacco sector is struggling to see benefits.…