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afrol News, 9 November - The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture on this weekend unveiled a strategy to boost agricultural research in Africa with plans to establish a "Global Research Park" in Nigeria.

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It's confirmed: New ocean to split Ethiopia

afrol News, 5 November - Since a gigantic rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia in 2005, scientists have speculated the rift was the first step in a process that will split eastern Ethiopia and Somalia from the African continent by a new ocean. Now, they have found proof it indeed will.

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South Africa
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GM potato gets roasting in South Africa

afrol News / SciDev.Net, 4 November - South Africa's Agricultural Research Council has appealed against the government's decision to reject a locally developed genetically modified (GM) potato it was hoping to release to farmers. The decision has split the industry.

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Central Africa | West Africa
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Maize research splendid investment for Africa

afrol News, 3 November - A new book looking at the history and effect on maize research in West and Central Africa reveals it is among the best spent funds to achieve poverty reduction. Every million US$ spent on maize research had lifted 35,000 Africans out of poverty, it claims.

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Uganda
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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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» 05.06.2009 - Mahale Ecosystem research project launched
» 02.06.2009 - Scientists call for African genomics boost
» 22.05.2009 - Historic lake landscape found in Egyptian desert
» 21.05.2009 - Africa lags behind in use of free software
» 17.04.2009 - Century of drought again to haunt West Africa
» 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
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