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IITA Director General, Dr Nteranya Sanginga.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nThe Academic Council of\u00a0Katholieke Universiteit Leuven<\/a>\u00a0(KU Leuven) has nominated DG\u00a0Nteranya Sanginga<\/a>\u00a0to receive the doctor of\u00a0honoris causa<\/em>.\n\nThe award will be conferred on the 20th anniversary of VLIR-UOS, an organization that supports partner\u00adships between higher education institutions in Flanders and the South.\n\nThe five partner universities under VLIR-UOS will host a ceremony to confer a total of five honorary doctorate degrees\u2014one from each university\u2014on individuals with exceptional distinction whose work is relevant to the mission of VLIR-UOS.\n\nKU Leuven is Belgium\u2019s largest and highest ranked university. As the oldest university in the Low Countries, it has a centuries-long tradition of conferring honorary doctorates in recognition of extraordinary scientific, social, or cultural achievements.\n\nVLIR-UOS<\/a>\u00a0supports\u00a0partnerships between universities and university colleges in Flanders and in the South, looking for innovative responses to global and local challenges. They achieve this by:\n\nan farmers\u2019 health and quality of life. Together with your team, you have helped reduce poverty in the area, improve food security, and increase youth employment. Taken together, your achievements definitely warrant our university\u2019s highest distinction.\u201d\n\nThe other nominees are Professor Claric Garcia Borges Demetrio, Mr Jose Ramon Saborido Loido, Mrs Leymah Gbowee, and Dr Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfun.\n\nThe award will be conferred on 15 May at a ceremony to be hosted by VLIR-UOS at KU Leuven in Brussels, Belgium.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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