Advancing sustainable development in Africa
<p>The report provides a detailed analysis of the design and implementation of Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) roadmaps aimed at advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Sub-Saharan
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Zimbabwe Farm Chaos Persists, Hits Coffee Industry
Zimbabwe's once promising coffee industry faces total collapse due to upheavals linked to President Robert Mugabe's controversial land redistribution policy, a farmers union said on Wednesday. The coffee industry was growing steadily until 2000, when Mugabe embarked on a drive to resettle landless but inexperienced black farmers on white-owned commercial farms.
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Rwandas highland rice renaissance
One of the first volumes of what was then known as the ILEIA Newsletter described how farmers in Rwanda were working with new ideas and approaches to rice production, including some used by Asian farmers. Michael Loevinsohn showed how farmers, through their experimentation, had managed to cultivate rice at altitudes well above normal levels.
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Pneumonia: Rwanda Receives Vaccine to Shield Babies Against Bacterial Infections
A vaccine that protects babies against fatal bacterial infections was introduced in Rwanda last week, its first distribution in a third world country. The pneumococcal conjugate vaccine has been sold under the Prevnar brand name in the United States since 2000, and Rwanda will get three million doses
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News 360 - Briefs
mauritius Outsourcing agriculture Soaring food prices and lack of land have forced Mauritius, a food-importing country, to launch an ambitious initiative. The island nation is growing its food in other African countries where land remains fallow and labour cheap.
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Neglected people
A documentary exposing the limits of the work of the International Tribunal for Rwanda has been feted at the 19th Marseille International Documentary Festival. D
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Africa gets substandard malaria drugs
A recent study has found that substandard anti-malarial drugs are being distributed in six African countries
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Bad air
A Catholic radio station In Rwanda has come under national scrutiny for allegedly giving scant coverage to commemorations of the genocide in the country last year. A report by the state-funded
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In Short
>> Virgin Airlines owner Richard Branson recently claimed to have made history by launching the first biofuel-powered commercial flight from London to Amsterdam. The debatable point is
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The billion-dollar malaria moment
For years the global malaria effort has been asking for more resources.Now the field needs to figure out a systematic strategy for spending the money effectively.
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Time to take control
With money now flowing in, the fight against malaria must shift from advocacy to getting results. (Editorial)