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Africa
Africa receives least health aid

afrol News, 30 November - New research reveals that the part of development aid directed towards health issues has increased strongly during the last two decades. But Africa receives far less health aid than less challenged developing countries, compared to needs.
South Africa
Longer life in SA may reflect AIDS victory

afrol News, 18 November - New statistics show that South Africa's declining life expectation turned already in 2005, with mortality rates for both sexes decreasing since that. Better HIV/AIDS treatment may be the cause.
Africa | East Africa
East Africa a new population heavyweight

afrol News, 20 October - The East African region is slowly developing into one of the world's new population blocks, with the region surpassing all of North America in few years and all of Europe by the 2040s. A new, major power may be building up.
Africa
Press Freedom Index for Africa "a joke"

afrol News editorial, 20 October - The reputable press freedom organisation Reporters Sans Frontières today presented its annual "Press Freedom Index". For Africa, the listing "cannot be taken seriously," the afrol News editor holds, adding that "methods are totally flawed."
Kenya
Most Kenyans say no to cleaner energy

afrol News / SciDev.Net, 11 October - The majority of Kenyans are unwilling to abandon their traditional energy sources in favour of cleaner or renewable ones, unless their incomes rise significantly, a new study has found.
Niger | World
Aid back to basics: Cash handouts in Niger

afrol News, 27 September - Despite countless emergency aid efforts and models, Niger's drought and flood victims still go hungry. Now, several aid agencies will go back to basics, providing families with cash handouts.
Africa
Cowpea scientists promise to end African hunger

afrol News, 27 September - Researchers specialising in cowpea production are currently gathered in Dakar, Senegal, trying to forward their "revolution" of African agriculture. Cowpeas are "the perfect crop for Africa," they hold.
Cameroon
How many million Cameroonians?

afrol News, 16 April - Five years late, the national census report is presented, concluding there are now 19.4 million inhabitants in Cameroon. "Foul" cries the opposition, claiming figures are manipulated. Researchers agree they could be false.
Africa
"Myths hinder potential of cassava in Africa"

afrol News, 30 March - Many half-true and some totally false notions about cassava in many African countries prevent the realisation of the crop's full poverty-busting and livelihoods-enhancing potential, according to Ugandan research. As in Asia, cassava could develop into an African cash crop industry.
Ghana
Witchcraft meets modern medicine in Ghana

afrol News, 24 March - More than one third of Ghana's population believe that AIDS is caused by witchcraft. But large-scale intervention programmes for improving health standards aree starting to convince people to trust medical explanations of the disease, researchers find.
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» 27.02.2010 - SA land reforms "discriminate against women"
» 12.02.2010 - "Overweight girls, undernourished boys" in Cameroon
» 09.11.2009 - Nigeria to get agro-research park
» 05.11.2009 - South African mortality crisis overcome
» 03.11.2009 - Maize research splendid investment for Africa
» 04.08.2009 - AU-UN mission provides funds to Dafur
» 29.04.2009 - World Bank doubles education financing
» 10.12.2008 - African urban ecology under-studied
» 09.10.2006 - "Corrupt culture" revealed among African diplomats
» 07.09.2006 - Mortality for middle-aged South Africans doubled
» 26.01.2005 - "Dramatic increase in black affluence" in SA
» 25.01.2005 - Religious knowledge set found to check Africa's development
» 20.12.2004 - Botswana HIV rate at 17, not 40 percent
» 01.12.2004 - Impact of AIDS on South Africa's elderly underrated
» 08.11.2004 - Edible insects "rediscovered" in Central Africa
» 28.04.2004 - South Africa's women from housework to unemployment queue
» 14.01.2004 - Chancellor to introduce German-Ethiopian science cooperation
» 29.10.2003 - Deepening African-European ties studied
» 30.07.2003 - Muslim-Christian coexistence in Nigeria studied
» 25.07.2003 - Africa's early ecologic-cultural history studied

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