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Africa | World
Science - Education | Economy - Development | Society
World Bank doubles education financing
afrol News, 29 April - The World Bank has today announced it was doubling its education financing this year in low- and middle-income countries to $4.09 billion to help poor countries battle threats to their education systems during the global economic crisis. Read more
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Africa
Science - Education | Environment - Nature
African urban ecology under-studied
afrol News, 10 December - African cities are growing faster than anywhere else in the world. But the ecological impact of their growth is poorly studies, whether it comes to urban ecology or the hinterland's environment.
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Africa
Politics | Economy - Development | Society | Science - Education
"Corrupt culture" revealed among African diplomats
afrol News, 9 October - Assuming there would be impunity for power abuse, would people from all cultures treat the opportunity equally? Well, a recent study found there is a "culture of corruption" in many countries, as there was a direct correlation between diplomats' abuse of impunity in New York and the level of corruption in their home countries. Most of them refused to pay their parking tickets. Among New York's top ten parking ticket violators are Egypt, Chad, Sudan, Mozambique, Angola and Senegal.
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South Africa
Health | Science - Education
Mortality for middle-aged South Africans doubled
afrol News, 7 September - South Africa's governmental statistics agency has presented depressing numbers on the population's life expectancy. In only seven years, the death rate for young and middle-aged South African has doubled, in some cases even tripled. Life expectancy at birth declined by 4 to 5 years over the last decade. The growing numbers of deaths from AIDS are blamed.
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South Africa
Economy - Development | Labour | Science - Education
"Dramatic increase in black affluence" in SA
afrol News, 26 January - A new study made at the University of Cape Town reveals that important changes have occurred in social mobility across racial lines in South Africa during the last decade. Studying the top end of South Africa's earners, the study found that by now, almost half of the country's affluent belong to South Africa's black majority.
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» 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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