Makerere University has entered a partnership together with other fifteen African Universities to carry out research purposed towards eradicating poverty.
Through the research, the universities intend to address issues of huge unemployment and other associated problems that have eaten-up the whole of Africa.
The universities included; Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia; Makerere University, Uganda; Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria; Rhodes University, South Africa; University of Rwanda; University of Stellerbosch, South Africa; University of Ghana; University of Ibadan, Nigeria; University of Dare’es Salam, Tanzania.
Others are Kwa-Zulu Natai, South Africa; University of Cape Town, South Africa; University of Cheikh Anta Doip, Senegal; University of Witwatersrand, South Africa and the University of Lagos.
The universities collaborated on the platform of African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) and converged at Lagos.