The official installation of UNESCO’s first francophone Africa chair of bioethics took place at the University of Bouaké in the Côte d’Ivoire capital of Abidjan. For English-speaking African countries, the bioethics chair is based at Egerton University in Kenya.

At the ceremony in July the university’s president Lazare Poamé, a chief proponent of studies in bioethics in the mid-1990s, described the installation as “one of the greatest intellectual events in the history of this university”. ~ University World News, Aug 8