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» 08.12.2010 - Mountain gorilla population recovering
» 02.12.2010 - Somaliland meets giant education challenge
» 30.11.2010 - Africa receives least health aid
» 30.11.2010 - Seychelles gets its 1st university
» 18.11.2010 - Longer life in SA may reflect AIDS victory
» 11.11.2010 - "Conserving Nigeria's forests pays off"
» 05.11.2010 - "Fertilizer tree" triples Malawi, Zambia yields
» 02.11.2010 - Cameroon "new gorillas" need protection
» 21.10.2010 - Kenyan pupils find teachers in laptops
» 20.10.2010 - East Africa a new population heavyweight
» 20.10.2010 - Press Freedom Index for Africa "a joke"
» 19.10.2010 - Coral deaths reach Mayotte, Comoros
» 11.10.2010 - Most Kenyans say no to cleaner energy
» 05.10.2010 - Scientists create African banana Wiki
» 29.09.2010 - Benin soon to offer universal education
» 27.09.2010 - Aid back to basics: Cash handouts in Niger
» 27.09.2010 - Cowpea scientists promise to end African hunger
» 27.09.2010 - SA showcases African medicines at Shanghai Expo
» 24.09.2010 - Cousin of smallpox virus spreading in DR Congo
» 23.09.2010 - Mauritius seeks 100,000 foreign students
» 22.09.2010 - East Africa to boost potential of cassava, potato
» 09.07.2010 - SA botany now has vuvuzelas
» 09.07.2010 - Researchers seek climate change-proof food crops
» 01.07.2010 - Warmer Lake Tanganyika threatens fisheries
» 15.06.2010 - Equatoguinean dictator snubbed by UNESCO
» 15.06.2010 - Ugandan scientists develop resistant banana
» 11.06.2010 - Algeria approves major science funding boost
» 10.06.2010 - African students to get common history syllabus
» 09.06.2010 - Open-source software intakes African universities
» 04.06.2010 - Scientists find cure for Kenya's toxic maize
» 28.05.2010 - Maghreb emerging from record dry century
» 27.05.2010 - Timbuktu ancient document centre opening
» 20.05.2010 - Maasais' good health surprises scientists
» 14.05.2010 - Moroccan fossil find defines geological era
» 14.05.2010 - Lesotho enacts free compulsory education
» 16.04.2010 - How many million Cameroonians?
» 16.04.2010 - Mauritanian students protest Arabisation
» 16.04.2010 - Improved cowpea varieties hit Nigeria's savannah
» 16.04.2010 - Climate models to predict African disease outbreak
» 14.04.2010 - New broadband network for Africa approved
» 12.04.2010 - Africa's research output dominated by three nations
» 08.04.2010 - Green economy strategies discussed
» 06.04.2010 - Is computer learning becoming redundant in Africa?
» 31.03.2010 - Prehestoric snakes still alive in Madagacar
» 30.03.2010 - "Myths hinder potential of cassava in Africa"
» 29.03.2010 - Nigerian scientists to revolutionise cowpea breeding
» 26.03.2010 - Rare lemurs found in Madagascar forests
» 24.03.2010 - Witchcraft meets modern medicine in Ghana
» 24.03.2010 - Nuclear technology for irrigation in Libya, Algeria
» 17.03.2010 - UNICEF brings books to CAR
» 16.03.2010 - UK halts Kenya education aid
» 15.03.2010 - Bananas against AIDS?
» 11.03.2010 - SA World Cup mainly to give non-material benefits
» 10.03.2010 - Guinea pigs to help ease DRC food crisis - scientists
» 05.03.2010 - Drumstick tree can provide Africa with clean water
» 27.02.2010 - SA land reforms "discriminate against women"
» 12.02.2010 - "Easy to double African banana yields"
» 12.02.2010 - "Overweight girls, undernourished boys" in Cameroon
» 11.02.2010 - East African students enjoined in integration research
» 11.02.2010 - Education still under attack - Unesco
» 26.01.2010 - Experts on black-eyed peas to meet in Dakar
» 20.01.2010 - Poor nations’ children’s education at stake
» 19.01.2010 - Online consultations to help poor nations’ energy strategy
» 13.01.2010 - Egypt varsity bans surgical masks in exams hall
» 16.12.2009 - Kibaki orders investigation into missing school funds
» 24.11.2009 - School meals boost education, new report
» 23.11.2009 - Women researchers still scarce, UNESCO
» 18.11.2009 - Heart disease discovered in ancient Egyptian mummies
» 09.11.2009 - Nigeria to get agro-research park
» 05.11.2009 - It's confirmed: New ocean to split Ethiopia
» 05.11.2009 - South African mortality crisis overcome
» 04.11.2009 - GM potato gets roasting in South Africa
» 03.11.2009 - Maize research splendid investment for Africa
» 03.11.2009 - Lesotho student clashes being investigated
» 06.10.2009 - Indian Ocean nations to test tsunami warning system
» 01.10.2009 - Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana youth to benefit from Cocoa development grant
» 23.09.2009 - UNESCO elects new chief
» 21.09.2009 - Two African candidates for UNESCO head
» 18.09.2009 - University of Seychelles takes off
» 16.09.2009 - Schools for Africa partnership raise $71 million
» 15.09.2009 - $70 million to revive Zimbabwe’s education
» 07.09.2009 - EU commissioner in Africa to boost science partnership
» 27.08.2009 - New teacher training college for Malawi
» 25.08.2009 - UNICEF grants DR Congo $500.000
» 14.08.2009 - $1.7m grant for African Leadership Centre
» 05.08.2009 - Poverty a threat to education, UN
» 04.08.2009 - Scientists publish discovery of Malaria origin
» 04.08.2009 - AU-UN mission provides funds to Dafur
» 07.07.2009 - Morocco signs €155 million loan agreement with France
» 19.06.2009 - Uganda could be a dessert in 40 years
» 05.06.2009 - Mahale Ecosystem research project launched
» 02.06.2009 - Scientists call for African genomics boost
» 22.05.2009 - Historic lake landscape found in Egyptian desert
» 22.05.2009 - Botswana begins building new science university
» 21.05.2009 - Africa lags behind in use of free software
» 21.05.2009 - Cape Verde wants emigrants back
» 18.05.2009 - Australia to donate 4250 Lapdesks to a Maputo school
» 29.04.2009 - World Bank doubles education financing
» 22.04.2009 - Africa-India satellite gets a nod in Nigeria
» 21.04.2009 - Countries set to meet the 2015 education for all target
» 17.04.2009 - Century of drought again to haunt West Africa
» 17.04.2009 - Mauritius seeks stronger ICT sector
» 15.04.2009 - African "Pygmies" genetically isolated for 60.000 years
» 14.04.2009 - Madagascar education sector in danger
» 01.04.2009 - Morocco to modernise its educational system
» 27.02.2009 - Humans have walked the earth more than 1.5 millions years ago, study
» 25.02.2009 - Zim teachers end year long strike
» 13.02.2009 - Teachers outraged by caning of colleagues
» 10.12.2008 - African urban ecology under-studied
» 09.12.2008 - African tests show malaria vaccine may come in 2011
» 05.12.2008 - Africa, Europe deepen higher education links
» 02.12.2008 - Agadir student killings trigger protests
» 21.11.2008 - Ugandan scientists discover new Ebola variety
» 14.11.2008 - 1.3 million year old human fossil found in Ethiopia
» 13.11.2008 - "Most Uganda child deaths easily preventable"
» 12.11.2008 - Stones instead of pcs to collect Sierra Leone health data
» 04.11.2008 - Angola could become continent's growth engine
» 04.11.2008 - Dramatic fall in malaria in The Gambia
» 25.10.2008 - Cape Town women face record strangulation risk
» 25.10.2008 - New coral reef discovered in Seychelles
» 16.10.2008 - Zimbabwe’s education in much deeper crisis
» 15.10.2008 - Rwanda to host Africa regional higher education summit
» 14.10.2008 - "Drastic decline" of Ivorian chimps
» 13.10.2008 - Green Sahara more common than thought
» 10.10.2008 - "Africa needs warning systems for wildlife diseases"
» 09.10.2008 - Cairo among top ten emerging global outsourcing cities
» 07.10.2008 - Small space rock expected over Sudanese sky
» 06.10.2008 - Ghanaian wins first African scholars award
» 25.09.2008 - WFP welcomes private sector partnership to feed world's poor children
» 23.09.2008 - New training levy introduced in Botswana
» 08.09.2008 - Morocco seals $23.8 million for education
» 11.08.2008 - SA wins a bid to host the 35th IGC in 2016
» 02.08.2008 - "African elephants extinct by 2020"
» 29.07.2008 - Namibia secures record grant
» 28.07.2008 - First HIV surveillance programme in Somaliland
» 23.07.2008 - Kenya study proves malaria drugs side effects
» 22.07.2008 - Massive AIDS projects threaten African health
» 20.06.2008 - Tanzania vulture deaths may cause epidemic risks
» 17.06.2008 - Funding streams in for Seychelles University
» 02.06.2008 - Skills shortage plagues Namibia's mining industry
» 30.05.2008 - Pharaonic army HQ found in Sinai
» 30.05.2008 - Mutant wheat aiding Kenya food security
» 22.05.2008 - Ivorian govt "behind student violence"
» 20.05.2008 - Schools for Africa campaign succeeds
» 07.03.2008 - No-work-no-pay rule damned
» 05.02.2008 - Uganda combats demons
» 03.01.2008 - Gambia increases salaries
» 21.12.2007 - African climate change: Blooming Sahara or hunger and war?
» 25.10.2007 - Sudan benefits gender education
» 16.10.2007 - Nigeria: No scientific success without mathematics
» 17.09.2007 - "African attitudes obstacle to innovation"
» 05.09.2007 - ZANU-PF chefs’ kids deported
» 24.08.2007 - Illegal Liberians’ deportation contested
» 24.07.2007 - Egypt to streamline and strengthen science policy
» 20.07.2007 - "All humans originated at single point in Africa"
» 17.07.2007 - DNA tests seem to identify Egyptian queen
» 17.07.2007 - Critical lack of health workers in Brazzaville
» 16.07.2007 - Stakeholders bang heads on 'Brain Drain' in Malawi
» 27.06.2007 - Gold processing centre found in ancient Kush (Sudan)
» 26.06.2007 - Discovery of Darfur underground lake spurs "1000 wells"
» 09.06.2007 - Cheap meningitis vaccine developed in West Africa
» 04.06.2007 - Ancient Egyptian tomb discovered
» 01.06.2007 - Mali gets serious about home-grown science
» 16.05.2007 - Big boost for Liberia education
» 02.04.2007 - Mosquitoes with 'selfish genes' may help fight malaria
» 28.03.2007 - AIDS killed 193 Tanzanian teachers
» 28.03.2007 - Mozambique aims to lead "green revolution"
» 27.03.2007 - Students protests return to fragile Guinea
» 26.03.2007 - Nigeria's native languages to promote science application
» 23.03.2007 - Djibouti to host first African Horn intellectuals' conference
» 09.03.2007 - Uganda decries lack of research on sleeping sickness
» 28.02.2007 - New study counters bid to commercialise ivory
» 26.02.2007 - FGM, circumcision "likely to spread HIV"
» 26.02.2007 - South Africa's schools start bridging apartheid gap
» 23.02.2007 - Gambia expels UN rep over AIDS cure grills
» 22.02.2007 - "Mystery bird" found in Senegal park
» 12.02.2007 - Gambia President continues "AIDS treatment"
» 26.01.2007 - Main malaria carriers identified in Cameroon
» 23.01.2007 - Zambia's science ambitions get recognition
» 22.01.2007 - 15 million diabetics in Africa by 2025
» 15.01.2007 - 10,000 South African educators to die of AIDS
» 08.01.2007 - Kenya Rift Valley Fever outbreak prompts research
» 22.12.2006 - African scientists eligible for European funding
» 21.12.2006 - University lecturers in Uganda call off strike
» 20.12.2006 - 400 new doctors to lose jobs in Kenya
» 14.12.2006 - Deadly infection hits Zambezi fish
» 08.12.2006 - Ebola outbreak killed 5000 gorillas
» 08.12.2006 - Nigeria boosts research into traditional medicine
» 01.12.2006 - World's oldest religion discovered in Botswana
» 30.11.2006 - ADF supports cotton science in West Africa
» 24.11.2006 - Drug-resistant typhoid makes leap from Asia to Africa
» 23.11.2006 - Five million South African kids to get free education
» 23.11.2006 - India gives West Africa US$ 250m to develop biofuels
» 17.11.2006 - Climate: "This is not Kenya as I remember it"
» 17.11.2006 - Scientists predict next Ebola outbreak
» 16.11.2006 - Moroccan professors strike over work conditions
» 10.11.2006 - Early hominids eradicated African competitor
» 09.11.2006 - West Africa still world's least developed region
» 06.11.2006 - Global fisheries collapse to hit Africa first
» 02.11.2006 - "Science ignores Africa's native crops"
» 09.10.2006 - "Corrupt culture" revealed among African diplomats
» 06.10.2006 - El Niño returns: Southern Africa droughts in 2007
» 13.09.2006 - Preparations for Timbuktu manuscript centre advance
» 12.09.2006 - Mauritania's Prussian past revealed: A desert pharmacy
» 08.09.2006 - SA finds new, worryingly virulent strain of TB
» 07.09.2006 - Mortality for middle-aged South Africans doubled
» 06.09.2006 - "Sack SA Health Minister" - world's AIDS experts
» 05.09.2006 - Hybrid rice gives record yields in Egypt
» 01.06.2006 - Tanzanian church still opposes condoms, sex education
» 26.05.2006 - Africans on the Internet: Maghreb most sex obsessed
» 24.05.2006 - Mutated Chikungunya virus caused Indian Ocean epidemic
» 23.05.2006 - Satellites reveal marine turtles' migrations
» 04.05.2006 - Women preachers appointed in Morocco
» 03.05.2006 - Somali MPs sent on constitution training
» 02.05.2006 - Ecology of Botswana's Okavango Delta deteriorating
» 28.04.2006 - "Hermaphrodite" hyenas give cubs hormonal kick-start
» 27.04.2006 - Mauritius urges laureates to return home
» 12.04.2006 - Medieval trans-Sahara mineral trade mapped
» 07.04.2006 - Secrets of Judas, Jesus kept in Egypt for 1700 years
» 07.04.2006 - South African mole rats: Proudly lazy
» 03.04.2006 - Researchers study Cape Verdeans' genetic structure
» 27.03.2006 - "Missing link" skull found in Ethiopia
» 08.03.2006 - The Sahara's largest crater discovered in Egypt
» 03.03.2006 - Bird flu fears in Mauritania, Cape Verde
» 28.02.2006 - Three new lemur species identified in Madagascar
» 27.02.2006 - Climate forecasts help predict African malaria epidemics
» 10.11.2005 - Mbeki inaugurates giant African telescope
» 10.11.2005 - New, cheap malaria cure for Africa presented
» 01.11.2005 - Ghana's Songor Lagoon drying up
» 12.09.2005 - Ghana Minister laments "increased brain drain"
» 29.07.2005 - South Africans consider other races most racist
» 26.07.2005 - Rare Cape Verde bird "never existed"
» 16.06.2005 - Aka Pygmies "best dads in the world"
» 26.04.2005 - Axum obelisk has returned to Ethiopia
» 25.04.2005 - Cameroon students on hunger strike
» 06.04.2005 - Egypt's pharaohs enjoyed red wine
» 06.04.2005 - Puntland (Somalia) to introduce free primary schools
» 04.04.2005 - Most South African educators dissatisfied with job
» 31.03.2005 - Role of African memorial museums discussed
» 23.03.2005 - East Africans "genetically most diverse"
» 14.03.2005 - African malaria comes to town
» 11.03.2005 - Burkina Faso graduates first wetland scientists
» 23.02.2005 - Scientists link Ebola to animal carcasses
» 23.02.2005 - Outrage as Botswana expels critical academic
» 10.02.2005 - French-Chadian funded scientists reveal origin of hippos
» 09.02.2005 - African rock art "under severe threat"
» 08.02.2005 - Basic education soon universal in Morocco
» 03.02.2005 - Rwanda's secondary schools to be connected by 2017
» 26.01.2005 - "Dramatic increase in black affluence" in SA
» 26.01.2005 - Students abduct Guinea-Bissau Ambassador in Russia
» 25.01.2005 - Religious knowledge set found to check Africa's development
» 25.01.2005 - 4.5 million-year-old hominids found in Ethiopia
» 21.01.2005 - New journalism school in Mozambique successful
» 20.12.2004 - Botswana HIV rate at 17, not 40 percent
» 17.12.2004 - All but Southern Africa gets more rain by global warming
» 03.12.2004 - Overfishing behind Ghana's wildlife decline
» 01.12.2004 - Impact of AIDS on South Africa's elderly underrated
» 29.11.2004 - Scull of Egypt's biblical Pharaoh may be found
» 18.11.2004 - "Zambia not hindered from hiring teachers," IMF
» 11.11.2004 - Coelacanths inspire science in South Africa
» 08.11.2004 - Edible insects "rediscovered" in Central Africa
» 19.10.2004 - Amphibian extinction wave reaches Africa
» 15.10.2004 - Possible malaria vaccine presented in Mozambique
» 05.10.2004 - First-ever rhino artificially inseminated
» 06.09.2004 - New tomb found below Egypt's Giza pyramids
» 20.08.2004 - Somaliland now counts on four universities
» 16.08.2004 - Bushmeat warning after new Cameroon virus
» 13.08.2004 - Madagascar educates 1 million school drop-outs
» 12.07.2004 - Nigeria may join Global University System
» 02.07.2004 - Million-year-old human skull found in Kenya
» 30.06.2004 - South Africa's science sector reorganised
» 07.06.2004 - Endangered Moroccan bird satellite tagged
» 04.06.2004 - Dinosaurs prove Africa is younger than assumed
» 03.06.2004 - Education on South Africa's farms "neglected"
» 28.05.2004 - Brain drain: "Europe poaching African healthcare workers"
» 24.05.2004 - Ebola outbreak confirmed in southern Sudan
» 04.05.2004 - Egypt, South Africa link up for telecoms development
» 28.04.2004 - South Africa's women from housework to unemployment queue
» 20.04.2004 - South Africa "cradle of human culture"
» 06.04.2004 - New uses for West Africa's miracle yohimbe tree
» 25.03.2004 - African scientists map origin of continent's cattle
» 23.03.2004 - New virus infections from bushmeat found in Central Africa
» 15.03.2004 - First medical school in Eritrea opens
» 09.03.2004 - Africa's boubou couples celebrate victory with duet
» 05.03.2004 - Environment taught in South Africa's public schools
» 04.03.2004 - Egyptian, Libyan groundwater dated million years old
» 02.03.2004 - UN to assist in Equatoguinean universal primary education
» 20.02.2004 - Climate extremes steer malaria outbreaks in African Highlands
» 13.02.2004 - Students arrested in Guinean university strike
» 10.02.2004 - Rock paintings in South Africa older than thought
» 05.02.2004 - "Extinct monkey" may still exist on Ivorian-Ghanaian border
» 02.02.2004 - African scientists warn on GM cotton "invasion"
» 30.01.2004 - Researchers observe toxic gas eruption off Namibia
» 29.01.2004 - Is the African AIDS pandemic a bluff?
» 28.01.2004 - Swazi children now let to school after royal weeding
» 27.01.2004 - Togo's new university opens in borrowed buildings
» 23.01.2004 - Some 80% of Somalis now illiterate
» 16.01.2004 - Ebola also causes epidemics in ape populations
» 14.01.2004 - Experimental Mozambican mass cholera vaccination begins
» 14.01.2004 - Chancellor to introduce German-Ethiopian science cooperation
» 23.12.2003 - European satellite to assist solving the Ebola enigma
» 20.12.2003 - Paleontologists discover pterosaur fossils in Niger
» 04.12.2003 - New fossils from Ethiopia open window on Africa's past
» 03.12.2003 - Education projects in Niger financed
» 28.11.2003 - Scientists taming sharks at South Africa's coast
» 18.11.2003 - Human testing of Ebola vaccine has begun
» 17.11.2003 - Botswana's baboons reveal complex social societies
» 11.11.2003 - Ethiopia wants skilled Diaspora to return
» 10.11.2003 - Termites and humans searching more gold in Mali
» 06.11.2003 - Little progress for girls' school attendance
» 05.11.2003 - Earliest ever stone tool excavated in Ethiopia
» 01.11.2003 - Heavy rains flood Western Sahara desert
» 29.10.2003 - Deepening African-European ties studied
» 23.10.2003 - Ancient Egyptian embalming techniques revealed
» 13.10.2003 - Study ties African drought to ocean temperatures
» 20.09.2003 - Reefs from Kenya to Mozambique "dead by 2015"
» 01.08.2003 - Community-based research nets results in Benin
» 30.07.2003 - Muslim-Christian coexistence in Nigeria studied
» 25.07.2003 - Africa's early ecologic-cultural history studied
» 17.07.2003 - Saharan dust brings drought, rain across Atlantic
» 12.07.2003 - Zimbabwean fish records shortevity
» 03.07.2003 - Education project in Guinea-Bissau funded
» 23.06.2003 - More African girls to go to school
» 20.06.2003 - Funds for education and reconstruction in Eritrea
» 04.06.2003 - São Toméan education project financed
» 04.06.2003 - Education and infrastructure credits for Namibia
» 26.05.2003 - Water harvesting promoted in troubled Karamoja Cluster
» 22.05.2003 - Giant canyon discovered off Mauritanian coast
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