Kenya
Medicine | Natural sciences | Science
Kenya study proves malaria drugs side effects
afrol News / SciDev.Net, 23 July - A study made in western Kenya indicates several side effects of malaria drugs on children, most being positive. Giving schoolchildren malaria intermittent preventative treatment (IPT) reduces anaemia and improves attention span, the study in the malaria-prone region of Kenya found.
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Africa
Cooperation | HIV-AIDS | Natural sciences | Policy
Massive AIDS projects threaten African health
afrol News, 22 July - Criticism is increasing against the many giant programmes to particularly tackle the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa, which are said to deplete other African health programmes that may have a much greater effect on public health.
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Tanzania
Natural sciences | Outbreaks | Science | Wildlife
Tanzania vulture deaths may cause epidemic risks
afrol News, 20 June - An increased death rate in vultures in Tanzania could be explained by the unlicensed sale of diclofenac for veterinary use in the East Africa region, causing fatal kidney failure in the birds. Vultures play an important ecological role as scavengers of carcasses and their loss put human health at risk as rats take over their role.
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Namibia
Affairs | Affairs | Development | Economy | Law | Mining | Natural sciences | People
Skills shortage plagues Namibia's mining industry
afrol News, 2 June - Namibia's Chamber of Mine has expressed concern about the acute shortage of skills in the country's mining sector, calling for a review of Namibia's Immigration Act and revamp of the Immigration Services Board (ISB).
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Egypt
History | Humanistic sciences
Pharaonic army HQ found in Sinai
afrol News, 30 May - Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed the relics of an ancient Egyptian city named Tharu, dating back to the New Kingdom era (1570-1070 BC) north on the Sinai Peninsula. The ruins are believed to include a fortress that was used as army headquarters for Pharaoh Ramsis II and his successors.
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Kenya
Food Security | Natural sciences
Mutant wheat aiding Kenya food security
afrol News / SciDev.Net, 30 May - A high-yielding, drought-resistant wheat variety is contributing to Kenya's food security and economic and social needs. The "mutant wheat" enables Kenyans to make use of have drylands that for long have been unfit for agriculture, at best merely a grazing area for wild animals and livestock.
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Côte d'Ivoire
Affairs | Higher Education | Policy | Violence
Ivorian govt "behind student violence"
afrol News, 22 May - Côte d'Ivoire authorities are accused of protecting pro-government student groups responsible for numerous acts of violent and criminal behaviour, according to human rights groups. The groups, often described as "the mafia", is said to operate under full impunity.
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Nigeria
Actionism | Affairs | Affairs | Corruption | Crime | Higher Education | HIV-AIDS | Law | People | Violence
No-work-no-pay rule damned
afrol News, 7 March - Nigerian government has been damned for issuing a directive to all heads of universities that it would apply no-work-no-pay rule. In this piece, an education rights campaigner of Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria, Kola Ibrahim, wondered why the rule should be applied to all lecturers who participated in the last warning strike, describing the rule as "condemnable" and "provocative."
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Uganda
Affairs | Children | Disasters | Diseases | History | Outbreaks | People | Primary Education | Religion
Uganda combats demons
afrol News, 5 February - School authorities in Sir Tito Winyi Primary School in Western Uganda held special prayers to combat a rampant "demonic attack" among pupils. Read more
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Gambia
Affairs | Affairs | Cooperation | Economy | Macroeconomy | Policy | Socio-economic
Gambia increases salaries
afrol News, 3 January - Gambian civil servants [undoubtedly among Africa's least paid] are celebrating a 20% surprise salary increase announced by President Yahya Jammeh. Read more
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Africa
Food Security | Natural sciences | Nature
African climate change: Blooming Sahara or hunger and war?
African Future, 21 December - Almost nobody doubts the climate is about to change, also in Africa. But how will it change, and must it be to the negative? There exist two colliding views of what a warmer climate will mean in Africa. One focuses on more droughts, natural disasters, spread of diseases and resource conflicts. Other scientists hold that many of Africa's poorest regions will get more rainfall, with the Sahara desert again becoming as green as it was 6,000 years ago. Read more
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Sudan
Affairs | Affairs | Cooperation | Development | Education | Harmful practices | Higher Education | Primary Education
Sudan benefits gender education
afrol News, 25 October -
A five-year Gender Equity through Education Programme has been launched in the Southern Sudanese capital of Juba. Launched by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in cooperation with the South Sudan government, a total of US $6.5 million has been earmarked for the programme. Read more
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Zimbabwe
Affairs | Affairs | Democracy - Dictatorship | Economy | Expression | Policy | Poverty | Violence
ZANU-PF chefs’ kids deported
afrol News, 5 September - The media campaign against the ruling ZANU-PF in Zimbabwe is slowly but surely paying some dividends, as western governments have started deporting the children of the party’s elites and cronies from their countries. Read more
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Liberia
Affairs | Affairs | Democracy - Dictatorship | Economy | Education | Elections | History | Infrastructure | Primary Education | Refugees - Displaced | Social Services | Social services | War & Peace
Illegal Liberians’ deportation contested
afrol News, 24 August - Thousands of illegal Liberians in the United States will be forced to leave on 1 October after the Department of Home Security has ended their Temporary Protected Status (TPS).
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Egypt
Policy
Egypt to streamline and strengthen science policy
afrol News / SciDev.Net, 24 July - Egypt's President, Hosni Mubarak, has authorised the creation of a higher council for science and technology and a science and technology development fund. The move is designed to restructure and strengthen Egypt's science and technology sector in the face of low productivity and criticisms that productive scientists are getting too little of an already small budget.
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Africa
Natural sciences
"All humans originated at single point in Africa"
afrol News, 20 July - New genetic research claims to have "proved" that all humans orininate from one single ancestor in sub-Saharan Africa. Researchers until now have been divided by two competing theories, the other holding that populations of modern humans evolved at several locations around the world.
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Egypt
History | Humanistic sciences | Natural sciences
DNA tests seem to identify Egyptian queen
afrol News, 17 July - Preliminary results from DNA tests carried out on a mummy believed to be Queen Hatshepsut is expected to support the claim by Egyptian authorities that the remains are indeed those of Egypt's most powerful female ruler.
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Sudan
History | Humanistic sciences
Gold processing centre found in ancient Kush (Sudan)
afrol News, 27 June - Archaeologists have discovered a gold processing centre in Sudan, along the middle Nile, an installation that produced the precious metal sometime between 2000 and 1500 BC. The centre, along with a cemetery they discovered, documents extensive control by the first sub-Saharan kingdom, the kingdom of Kush.
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Sudan
Development | Food Security | Natural sciences | War & Peace
Discovery of Darfur underground lake spurs "1000 wells"
afrol News / SciDev.Net, 26 June - The recent discovery of a mega-lake under northern Darfur has prompted an initiative to fund well-drilling in the region. The President of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, has agreed to the initiative, which is to tackle the problem of water shortage in north-western Sudan and may contribute to a peace solution.
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