Economy - Development | Science - Education | Health | Culture - Arts | Society Heart disease discovered in ancient Egyptian mummies
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. Read more
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Politics | Economy - Development | Agriculture - Nutrition | Society China-Africa commitments applauded
afrol News, 10 November - The head of the UN food agency has welcomed the declaration by the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation underlining the critical role that investment in food security, agriculture and infrastructure plays in feeding people on the continent. Read more
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Economy - Development | Environment - Nature | Society Local group makes mark at Egypt's Lake Qarun
afrol News, 22 September - Egypt’s first IBA-Local Conservation Group/Site Support Group (SSG) has persuaded one of the country’s largest construction groups to end the dumping of waste at Lake Qarun, which holds regionally important numbers of waterbirds in winter. Read more
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Economy - Development | Health | Society Second US-Egypt clinical study blocked
afrol News, 15 September - A study exploring the healing of diabetic skin ulcers using topical oxygen/ozone gas mixtures could not proceed to completion and was now abandoned, according to Ozonics International, LLC, a veteran-owned biotechnology company engaged in the research and development of ozone-based medical therapies. Read more
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Politics | Society | Human rights Egypt must investigate border killings, AI
afrol News, 10 September - The Egyptian authorities must control their forces at the border with Israel and prevent them from killing migrants attempting to cross it, Amnesty International made said in an appeal yesterday. Read more
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Politics | Economy - Development Egypt effect more cuts on rates
afrol News, 30 July - The Egyptian central bank has reduced its interest rates to the lowest in three years in trying to arrest the effects of the economic slowdown as well as the inflation pressure. Read more
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