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AGRICULTURE-NIGERIA: Bagging Beans Against Beetles
By Salma Ahmad Kano
KANO - Cowpeas are of vital importance to the diets and livelihood of millions of people in West and Central Africa. But the crop is notoriously difficult to store - beetles and other pests can destroy an entire granary full of cowpeas within 12 months.
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Q&A: Harmonise the Efforts of African Scientists
Omer Redi Ahmed interviews SANAA BOTROS, award-winning pharmacologist
ADDIS ABABA - As many as 100 million people in Africa suffer from schistosomiasis, a chronic illness caused by a parasite associated with freshwater snails. The schistosoma flatworm causes a debilitating illness that can damage internal organs, and stunt growth and cognitive development of children.
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WATER-SOUTHERN AFRICA: Research Not Trickling Down To Farmers
By Vusumuzi Sifile
MAPUTO - Farmers could be losing tonnes of crops every harvest just because no one has bothered to tell them that scientists have found more effective methods of using water to farm.
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HEALTH-SAO TOME: The Forest is the Pharmacy
By Mercedes Sayagues
SAO TOME - If you live in São Tomé, a good investment in your health is to plant a po-sabom tree (Dracaena aroborea) in your backyard. Leave space: it can grow up to 20 metres high, with sword-shaped leaves.
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DEVELOPMENT-AFRICA: Women in Pursuit of Knowledge
By Koffigan E. Adigbli
DAKAR - While Africa is still far from having adequate capacity for scientific innovation, women are more and more present in the field of research for the continent's sustainable development.
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HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Returning Sick - HIV, Illness, Death and Migration
By Siyabonga Kalipa and Brenda Nkuna
CAPE TOWN - It's a Wednesday afternoon at the Joe Gqabi bus terminus in Philippi, Cape Town, and ticket touts scramble to recruit passengers wanting to travel to the rural Eastern Cape, a 1,000 kilometre, 16-hour haul away.
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DEVELOPMENT: World's Poor Offer Lessons in Bank Study
By Marina Litvinsky
WASHINGTON - To be successful, poverty-reducing programmes must be informed by the lives and experiences of the millions of poor people around the world and emphasise economic opportunity, says a study released Wednesday by the World Bank.
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ENVIRONMENT: Climate Change Threatens Livelihoods Along Africa's Coast
By Miriam Mannak
CAPE TOWN - Environmental experts warn that climate change will lead to oceanic acidification and increase surface water temperatures, especially around the African continent.
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TECHNOLOGY: Fab Labs Channel Your Inner Scientist
By Enrique Gili*
SAN DIEGO, California - Inside the confines of a modest 275-square-metre office space in this southern California city, the human imagination is running wild.
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HEALTH-AFRICA: Who Is To Blame for the Crisis?
By Kristin Palitza
BAMAKO - Health systems on the continent are riddled with inadequate policies, strategies, lack of institutional capacity, poor scientific review mechanisms and weak funding for research in the public and private sector, said Luis Sambo, regional director of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Africa.
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KENYA: Failing Grade For Free Primary Education?
By Najum Mushtaq
NAIROBI - When in 2003 Kenya followed its neighbours Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda and Malawi in introducing free and compulsory primary education for all, the response from the public as well as international donors was overwhelming.
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RIGHTS-EGYPT: New Family Laws: A Success Story?
By Aya Batrawy
CAIRO - It was a love story of sorts and one that led to marriage. But 18 months later Nayrouz filed for divorce, making her part of a growing number of Egyptian women who are leaving their marriages. One in three marriages in this highly traditional and predominantly Muslim society fails within its first year, according to government figures.
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DEVELOPMENT: Signs of Hope for Ethiopia's Children
By Kathryn Strachan
JOHANNESBURG - Amid the hardship facing Ethiopia's children, there are signs that conditions may be improving and that children's lives are changing for the better.
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AFRICA: Research and Tradition Could Save Environment
By Stephanie Nieuwoudt
CAPE TOWN - Africa risks losing up to 50 percent of its indigenous species over the next century due to global warming.
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KENYA: Predicting Weather With Science and Spider Webs
By Kathryn Strachan
JOHANNESBURG - When the magungu bird flies higher in the sky than usual and seems to float in the air in its passage from south to north, the Abasuba people living on the islands of Kenya's Lake Victoria and on the highlands near the lake know the rains are on their way and that it is time to plant.
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ENVIRONMENT-KENYA: Threat to Pastoralists' Way of Life
By Najum Mushtaq
NAIROBI - Ole Kaparo works as a school teacher in Nairobi, though his family still herds cattle in the Masai pastures of the north Rift Valley province. Five years ago, during a prolonged spell of drought, he left this traditional life to seek work in the city.
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EGYPT-REFUGEES: Stepping Stones Across the Desert
By Aya Batrawy
CAIRO - "When I left Darfur, I left the hell of death and entered the hell of life. That is the only difference," said Galoud*, one of the many Darfuri refugees who have escaped to Egypt.
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DEVELOPMENT-TANZANIA: Lighting Up Women's Lives
By Sarah McGregor
ARUSHA - Anneth Laizer shoved her kerosene lantern onto the top shelf and switched on the lights after her home in Tanzania's third-largest city, Arusha, was connected to electricity earlier this year.
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DEVELOPMENT-ETHIOPIA: Understanding Poverty's Impact on Children
By Sisay Abebe
ADDIS ABABA - When the school bell rings, Alemtsehay and her three younger sisters rush home to change out of their school uniforms and into tattered clothes to go out begging around Bole Road, one of Addis Ababa's smarter areas.
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Q&A: Denying Antiretrovirals To Migrants Hurts Us All -- Interview with Joanna Vearey, Forced Migration Project, Univ. of Witswatersrand
Prisoners of Familiarity
By Ernest Darkoh
I have always loved the title of Dugmore Boetie's book, 'Familiarity of the Kingdom of the Lost'. Each decade of my global health career has revealed the increasing poignancy of these words. Despite the large number of public health initiatives, the last four decades have seen Africa become the top ranking abode of some of the world's nastiest pathogens and diseases. So why are these inherently addressable problems so resistant to solutions?
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Is Information the Solution?
By Richard Humphries
The World Bank's new chief economist for Africa recently penned an entry on his new blog with the title: Is information the solution? His comments drew on pioneering research in Uganda by World Bank staffers in the 1990s on the role that information played in ensuring better development outcomes.
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Telling the Story of a Changing Climate
By Leonie Joubert
How do you tell a story as complex as climate change: where the cause is centuries' worth of pollution, trickling steadily into an ocean of air as vast as the sky above our heads; where the effluent is largely invisible; where the culprits straddle generations; where the victims come decades later? Cape Town hosted scientists and journalists at a conference last month, which was geared towards honing the craft of storytelling in the realm of a shifting climate. Science journalist Leonie Joubert jotted down some of her observations.
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Who and what were the xenophobic attacks in South Africa about?
By Temba Sipho B. Masilela
In the aftermath of the xenophobic attacks ambiguity about nationality has acquired dangers that cannot be ignored. However, the transfixing events and horrifying images of murder in the name of being a real and proven South African national are about more than just language and nationality identity. They are also about shortcomings in policy narratives and the ineffectiveness of the links between policy and community action.
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African Civil Society Must Provide Stronger Leadership
Analysis by Dr Berhe Costantinos
Today, Africa is in the grip of an unprecedented crisis, heightened by the inability of home grown African organisations to readily engage in the search for solutions to the continent's problems. Nonetheless, Africa still struggles to be at the forefront of the global development agenda.
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Research Is About Changing Lives
Analysis by David Dickinson
I live in a country where it has become normal to bury men and women in their thirties. At least it is so at township funerals.
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