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Egypt
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Heart disease discovered in ancient Egyptian mummies

afrol News, 18 November - A cardiologist at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute and his research team from Cairo, Milwaukee, and Mission Viejo, Calif., have detected the hardening of the arteries in 3,500-year-old Egyptian mummies, indicating that heart disease is not just a condition found in modern humans.

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Scientists publish discovery of Malaria origin

afrol News, 4 August - Scientists have reported to have discovered the origin of malaria, saying Chimpanzees, native to equatorial Africa, have been identified as the original source of the parasite that likely moved from them to humans via mosquitoes.

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Kenya
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Humans have walked the earth more than 1.5 millions years ago, study

afrol News, 27 February - Latest evidence showing morden human like existence dating back over 1.5 million years back has been unearthed by Anthropologists in Kenya.

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Ethiopia
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1.3 million year old human fossil found in Ethiopia

afrol News, 14 November - Archaeologists have found what they term "an important new fossil of a Homo erectus female pelvis from approximately 1.3 million years ago" in Ethiopia. The fossil is expected to "reveal important new information about human evolution," researchers say.

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South Africa
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Cape Town women face record strangulation risk

afrol News, 25 October - No place in the world is the risk higher for a woman to be killed by strangulation than in South Africa's city of Cape Town. While other SA cities are registering lowering rates of violence against women, Cape Town continues to become more dangerous.

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» 30.05.2008 - Pharaonic army HQ found in Sinai
» 17.07.2007 - DNA tests seem to identify Egyptian queen
» 27.06.2007 - Gold processing centre found in ancient Kush (Sudan)
» 04.06.2007 - Ancient Egyptian tomb discovered
» 01.12.2006 - World's oldest religion discovered in Botswana
» 13.09.2006 - Preparations for Timbuktu manuscript centre advance
» 12.09.2006 - Mauritania's Prussian past revealed: A desert pharmacy
» 12.04.2006 - Medieval trans-Sahara mineral trade mapped
» 07.04.2006 - Secrets of Judas, Jesus kept in Egypt for 1700 years
» 29.07.2005 - South Africans consider other races most racist
» 16.06.2005 - Aka Pygmies "best dads in the world"
» 26.04.2005 - Axum obelisk has returned to Ethiopia
» 06.04.2005 - Egypt's pharaohs enjoyed red wine
» 31.03.2005 - Role of African memorial museums discussed
» 23.03.2005 - East Africans "genetically most diverse"
» 09.02.2005 - African rock art "under severe threat"
» 25.01.2005 - Religious knowledge set found to check Africa's development
» 25.01.2005 - 4.5 million-year-old hominids found in Ethiopia
» 29.11.2004 - Scull of Egypt's biblical Pharaoh may be found
» 06.09.2004 - New tomb found below Egypt's Giza pyramids
» 02.07.2004 - Million-year-old human skull found in Kenya
» 20.04.2004 - South Africa "cradle of human culture"
» 25.03.2004 - African scientists map origin of continent's cattle
» 10.02.2004 - Rock paintings in South Africa older than thought
» 05.11.2003 - Earliest ever stone tool excavated in Ethiopia
» 30.07.2003 - Muslim-Christian coexistence in Nigeria studied

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