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afrol News / SciDev.Net - Africa needs early warning systems to deal with the increased threat of disease spreading from wild animals to humans such as Ebola, which will be further fuelled by climate change, according to international health experts.

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afrol News - Egyptian capital, Cairo, has broken into top ten of world's emerging outsourcing cities for first time, moving up four positions from last year, latest Global Services-Tholons study says.

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Mangroves in the Casamance (Senegal)

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The Mangroves
an undervalued ecosystem


afrol News - Historically classified "unhealthy wastelands" or "useless swamps" by development-eager authorities and businesses, the mangrove forests actually are one of the most fascinating resources in tropical Africa. The trees manage to live on the edge between flooding rivers, tidal waves intruding with salt water and the drylands, where they create new land and environs rich in fish, birds, wood and other resources. Finally, their value is being discovered.

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UNAIDS image of Africa

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Is the African AIDS pandemic a bluff?

afrol News - A growing number of researchers question the "official" inflated numbers of HIV/AIDS prevalence in African countries such as Botswana, South Africa and Lesotho. Poor testing, a special diagnosis of AIDS in Africa and erroneous computer-generated estimates by the UN had led to "misleading" numbers, they hold. The history of AIDS in Uganda serves as proof.

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