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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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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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afrol News, 6 October - Eighteen countries around the Indian Ocean Rim will participate in a United Nations-backed tsunami exercise on 14 October to coincide with World Disaster Reduction Day, the first time that the warning system set up following the devastating disaster that struck the region in 2004 will be tested.

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afrol News, 1 October - Over 160,000 people are to benefit from the World Cocoa Foundation Youth Education Programme in West Africa. The two ­year, $5.6 million public­-private partnership will focus on youth and young adults in Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana.

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afrol News, 23 September - The United Nations Cultural and Scientific Organisation (UNESCO) has chosen its new leader, the former Bulgarian Foreign Minister Irina Bokova.

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» 15.09.2009 - $70 million to revive Zimbabwe’s education
» 07.09.2009 - EU commissioner in Africa to boost science partnership
» 27.08.2009 - New teacher training college for Malawi
» 25.08.2009 - UNICEF grants DR Congo $500.000
» 14.08.2009 - $1.7m grant for African Leadership Centre
» 05.08.2009 - Poverty a threat to education, UN
» 05.06.2009 - Mahale Ecosystem research project launched
» 02.06.2009 - Scientists call for African genomics boost
» 22.05.2009 - Botswana begins building new science university
» 21.05.2009 - Cape Verde wants emigrants back
» 29.04.2009 - World Bank doubles education financing
» 21.04.2009 - Countries set to meet the 2015 education for all target
» 14.04.2009 - Madagascar education sector in danger
» 01.04.2009 - Morocco to modernise its educational system
» 25.02.2009 - Zim teachers end year long strike
» 05.12.2008 - Africa, Europe deepen higher education links
» 16.10.2008 - Zimbabwe’s education in much deeper crisis
» 09.10.2008 - Cairo among top ten emerging global outsourcing cities
» 25.09.2008 - WFP welcomes private sector partnership to feed world's poor children
» 03.01.2008 - Gambia increases salaries
» 24.07.2007 - Egypt to streamline and strengthen science policy
» 16.07.2007 - Stakeholders bang heads on 'Brain Drain' in Malawi
» 01.06.2007 - Mali gets serious about home-grown science
» 28.03.2007 - Mozambique aims to lead "green revolution"
» 27.03.2007 - Students protests return to fragile Guinea
» 26.03.2007 - Nigeria's native languages to promote science application
» 09.03.2007 - Uganda decries lack of research on sleeping sickness
» 26.02.2007 - South Africa's schools start bridging apartheid gap
» 23.02.2007 - Gambia expels UN rep over AIDS cure grills
» 23.01.2007 - Zambia's science ambitions get recognition
» 15.01.2007 - 10,000 South African educators to die of AIDS
» 22.12.2006 - African scientists eligible for European funding
» 16.11.2006 - Moroccan professors strike over work conditions
» 09.11.2006 - West Africa still world's least developed region
» 02.11.2006 - "Science ignores Africa's native crops"
» 06.09.2006 - "Sack SA Health Minister" - world's AIDS experts
» 01.06.2006 - Tanzanian church still opposes condoms, sex education
» 03.05.2006 - Somali MPs sent on constitution training
» 27.04.2006 - Mauritius urges laureates to return home
» 25.04.2005 - Cameroon students on hunger strike
» 06.04.2005 - Puntland (Somalia) to introduce free primary schools
» 04.04.2005 - Most South African educators dissatisfied with job
» 11.03.2005 - Burkina Faso graduates first wetland scientists
» 23.02.2005 - Outrage as Botswana expels critical academic
» 08.02.2005 - Basic education soon universal in Morocco
» 03.02.2005 - Rwanda's secondary schools to be connected by 2017
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» 13.08.2004 - Madagascar educates 1 million school drop-outs
» 12.07.2004 - Nigeria may join Global University System
» 30.06.2004 - South Africa's science sector reorganised
» 03.06.2004 - Education on South Africa's farms "neglected"
» 28.05.2004 - Brain drain: "Europe poaching African healthcare workers"
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