Annina Clavadetscher präsentiert am 16. Mai 2022 ihre Forschungen zur Arbeitsgruppe südliches Afrika.

On 5 December 1974, the medical faculty of the University of Bern terminated its cooperation with the Service for Technical Cooperation of the FPD on the Ethiopian project of the Duke of Harar Hospital. The oversized hospital had been opened with Swiss help just thirteen months earlier.

«The activation of our foreign policy is in progress». The former Federal Council and head of the Federal Political Department (FPD, today FDFA) Pierre Graber was convinced when he gave an exclusive interview to a Lucerne newspaper in February of 1976. According to him, the experiences during the oil crisis and the recession of the past year had shown Switzerland, «that world politics does not take place on another planet, but rather, that it affects everyone directly in their daily lives» (Doc. 1, dodis.ch/50064).