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afrol News, 3 January - Gambian civil servants [undoubtedly among Africa's least paid] are celebrating a 20% surprise salary increase announced by President Yahya Jammeh.

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afrol News / SciDev.Net, 24 July - Egypt's President, Hosni Mubarak, has authorised the creation of a higher council for science and technology and a science and technology development fund. The move is designed to restructure and strengthen Egypt's science and technology sector in the face of low productivity and criticisms that productive scientists are getting too little of an already small budget.

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Malawi
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Stakeholders bang heads on 'Brain Drain' in Malawi

afrol News / The Chronicle, 16 July - Highly skilled professionals continue to emigrate from Malawi and the rest of Southern Africa. The impacts of this 'brain drain' are complex and it is clear that many African countries and Malawi in particular, have been left with serious specific gaps in many areas especially in the health sector.

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Mali
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Mali gets serious about home-grown science

afrol News / SciDev.Net, 1 June - Mali has developed a ten-year plan to encourage and finance agricultural research and development. The Bamako government plans to raise most funds locally to finance the ambitious research scheme.

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Mozambique
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Mozambique aims to lead "green revolution"

afrol News / SciDev.Net, 28 March - Mozambique aims to lead a green revolution in sub-Saharan Africa by using science to improve crop varieties, and by boosting innovation. Government budgets are ready to meet new investments.

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» 27.03.2007 - Students protests return to fragile Guinea
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» 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
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» 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"
» 03.12.2003 - Education projects in Niger financed
» 11.11.2003 - Ethiopia wants skilled Diaspora to return
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