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Uganda
Environment - Nature | Science - Education | Society
Uganda could be a dessert in 40 years

afrol News, 19 June - A new global report on Environment has warned that Uganda could be a total dessert in 40 years if the government fails to protect the country’s forests. Uganda has reportedly lost more than 30 percent of its forest between 1990 and 2005.

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Tanzania | World
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Mahale Ecosystem research project launched

afrol News, 5 June - A unique bio-diversity research centre opens at the Mahale National Park, in Tanzania, and is expected to play host to both national and international researchers.

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Africa
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Scientists call for African genomics boost

afrol News / SciDev.Net, 2 June - A new era of medicines tailored to suit the genetic profiles of specific populations could leave Africa behind, some of the continent's most respected geneticists are warning.

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Egypt
Science - Education
Historic lake landscape found in Egyptian desert

afrol News, 22 May - Researchers have mapped the ice age landscape of Egypt's extremely dry Western Desert and found proof that it was covered with lakes and lush vegetation. This landscape may have provided early man a route of passage out of Africa into the Mediterranean.

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Africa
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Africa lags behind in use of free software

afrol News, 21 May - While Asia and Latin America are seeing a boom in the use of free software, now taking the global lead, Africa is still lagging behind, depending largely on expensive programmes and pirate copies.

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» 15.04.2009 - African "Pygmies" genetically isolated for 60.000 years
» 10.12.2008 - African urban ecology under-studied
» 09.12.2008 - African tests show malaria vaccine may come in 2011
» 21.11.2008 - Ugandan scientists discover new Ebola variety
» 14.11.2008 - 1.3 million year old human fossil found in Ethiopia
» 13.11.2008 - "Most Uganda child deaths easily preventable"
» 12.11.2008 - Stones instead of pcs to collect Sierra Leone health data
» 04.11.2008 - Dramatic fall in malaria in The Gambia
» 25.10.2008 - New coral reef discovered in Seychelles
» 14.10.2008 - "Drastic decline" of Ivorian chimps
» 13.10.2008 - Green Sahara more common than thought
» 10.10.2008 - "Africa needs warning systems for wildlife diseases"
» 02.08.2008 - "African elephants extinct by 2020"
» 28.07.2008 - First HIV surveillance programme in Somaliland
» 23.07.2008 - Kenya study proves malaria drugs side effects
» 22.07.2008 - Massive AIDS projects threaten African health
» 20.06.2008 - Tanzania vulture deaths may cause epidemic risks
» 02.06.2008 - Skills shortage plagues Namibia's mining industry
» 30.05.2008 - Mutant wheat aiding Kenya food security
» 21.12.2007 - African climate change: Blooming Sahara or hunger and war?
» 16.10.2007 - Nigeria: No scientific success without mathematics
» 20.07.2007 - "All humans originated at single point in Africa"
» 17.07.2007 - DNA tests seem to identify Egyptian queen
» 26.06.2007 - Discovery of Darfur underground lake spurs "1000 wells"
» 09.06.2007 - Cheap meningitis vaccine developed in West Africa
» 02.04.2007 - Mosquitoes with 'selfish genes' may help fight malaria
» 09.03.2007 - Uganda decries lack of research on sleeping sickness
» 28.02.2007 - New study counters bid to commercialise ivory
» 26.02.2007 - FGM, circumcision "likely to spread HIV"
» 22.02.2007 - "Mystery bird" found in Senegal park
» 26.01.2007 - Main malaria carriers identified in Cameroon
» 22.01.2007 - 15 million diabetics in Africa by 2025
» 08.01.2007 - Kenya Rift Valley Fever outbreak prompts research
» 14.12.2006 - Deadly infection hits Zambezi fish
» 08.12.2006 - Ebola outbreak killed 5000 gorillas
» 08.12.2006 - Nigeria boosts research into traditional medicine
» 30.11.2006 - ADF supports cotton science in West Africa
» 24.11.2006 - Drug-resistant typhoid makes leap from Asia to Africa
» 23.11.2006 - India gives West Africa US$ 250m to develop biofuels
» 17.11.2006 - Climate: "This is not Kenya as I remember it"
» 17.11.2006 - Scientists predict next Ebola outbreak
» 10.11.2006 - Early hominids eradicated African competitor
» 06.11.2006 - Global fisheries collapse to hit Africa first
» 02.11.2006 - "Science ignores Africa's native crops"
» 06.10.2006 - El Niño returns: Southern Africa droughts in 2007
» 08.09.2006 - SA finds new, worryingly virulent strain of TB
» 05.09.2006 - Hybrid rice gives record yields in Egypt
» 24.05.2006 - Mutated Chikungunya virus caused Indian Ocean epidemic
» 23.05.2006 - Satellites reveal marine turtles' migrations
» 02.05.2006 - Ecology of Botswana's Okavango Delta deteriorating
» 28.04.2006 - "Hermaphrodite" hyenas give cubs hormonal kick-start
» 07.04.2006 - South African mole rats: Proudly lazy
» 03.04.2006 - Researchers study Cape Verdeans' genetic structure
» 27.03.2006 - "Missing link" skull found in Ethiopia
» 08.03.2006 - The Sahara's largest crater discovered in Egypt
» 28.02.2006 - Three new lemur species identified in Madagascar
» 27.02.2006 - Climate forecasts help predict African malaria epidemics
» 10.11.2005 - Mbeki inaugurates giant African telescope
» 01.11.2005 - Ghana's Songor Lagoon drying up
» 26.07.2005 - Rare Cape Verde bird "never existed"
» 06.04.2005 - Egypt's pharaohs enjoyed red wine
» 23.03.2005 - East Africans "genetically most diverse"
» 14.03.2005 - African malaria comes to town
» 23.02.2005 - Scientists link Ebola to animal carcasses
» 10.02.2005 - French-Chadian funded scientists reveal origin of hippos
» 17.12.2004 - All but Southern Africa gets more rain by global warming
» 03.12.2004 - Overfishing behind Ghana's wildlife decline
» 11.11.2004 - Coelacanths inspire science in South Africa
» 19.10.2004 - Amphibian extinction wave reaches Africa
» 15.10.2004 - Possible malaria vaccine presented in Mozambique
» 05.10.2004 - First-ever rhino artificially inseminated
» 16.08.2004 - Bushmeat warning after new Cameroon virus
» 02.07.2004 - Million-year-old human skull found in Kenya
» 30.06.2004 - South Africa's science sector reorganised
» 07.06.2004 - Endangered Moroccan bird satellite tagged
» 04.06.2004 - Dinosaurs prove Africa is younger than assumed
» 06.04.2004 - New uses for West Africa's miracle yohimbe tree
» 25.03.2004 - African scientists map origin of continent's cattle
» 23.03.2004 - New virus infections from bushmeat found in Central Africa
» 09.03.2004 - Africa's boubou couples celebrate victory with duet
» 04.03.2004 - Egyptian, Libyan groundwater dated million years old
» 20.02.2004 - Climate extremes steer malaria outbreaks in African Highlands
» 05.02.2004 - "Extinct monkey" may still exist on Ivorian-Ghanaian border
» 30.01.2004 - Researchers observe toxic gas eruption off Namibia
» 16.01.2004 - Ebola also causes epidemics in ape populations
» 14.01.2004 - Chancellor to introduce German-Ethiopian science cooperation
» 23.12.2003 - European satellite to assist solving the Ebola enigma
» 20.12.2003 - Paleontologists discover pterosaur fossils in Niger
» 04.12.2003 - New fossils from Ethiopia open window on Africa's past
» 28.11.2003 - Scientists taming sharks at South Africa's coast
» 18.11.2003 - Human testing of Ebola vaccine has begun
» 17.11.2003 - Botswana's baboons reveal complex social societies
» 10.11.2003 - Termites and humans searching more gold in Mali
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