The Kenyan Meteorological Department has begun exploring ways to induce rain in dry areas of the country, through a process known as cloud-seeding. Deputy director of the KMD, Peter Ambenje says his department has begun taking measurements to see what is possible.
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All seven dishes of South Africa’s KAT-7 prototype radio telescope array in the Karoo have now been fitted with operational-cooled – feeds and the instrument has already taken its first scientific image, of the radio galaxy Centaurus A
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IN the 1980s, governments struggled to hold on to the monopoly of propaganda and reserved a firm grip on what information to broadcast to the population. Aware of the major role BBC played in the European wars and imperialism, most states established external broadcast propaganda stations. Similarly, the imperial Anglo American powers used the media [...]
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Tropical forests designated as strictly protected areas have annual deforestation rates much higher than those managed by local communities – reinforcing a challenge to a long-held belief that the best way to conserve forests is to lock them away in protected areas, according to a new study.
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Rwanda has completed plans to establish a centre for innovation and technology that would guide and provide free services to national innovators who need to come up with new ICT-driven ideas.
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Succour may finally be coming the way of HIV infected Tanzanians following the establishment of a new pharmaceutical plant to produce life-prolonging anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) in Arusha, Tanzania.
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A research conducted by the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in collaboration with the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has revealed that more Ghanaian men are choosing to undergo vasectomy.
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By Akinwumi Adesina To better place in context the drive for agricultural transformation in Nigeria, let me start with what the global picture looks like and some critical trends that must reshape the way we look at food production in Nigeria. The world witnessed a dramatic increase in global food prices in 2007-2008, the largest [...]
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A whole continent sells its raw materials but produces less than 1% of the world’s manufactured goods
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Africa’s contribution to a world free of nuclear tests – Amelia Broodryk
Amelia Broodryk On 29 August, the international community observed the second International Day against Nuclear Tests. The UN General Assembly created the event in December 2009 through the unanimous adoption of resolution 64/35. This year, the International Day against Nuclear Tests also marked the 20th anniversary of the closure of the nuclear weapons test [...]
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