SOUTH AFRICA (10 September, 2014) — According to the UN, the world’s population is expected to reach approximately 8.3 billion by 2030, and society will need 50 percent more food, 45 percent more energy, and 30 percent more water to sustain this growth. Science will play a critical role in addressing these global challenges, and Dow (NYSE: DOW) is dedicated to innovating science-driven solutions. With its newest breakthrough, BETAMATE™ Structural Adhesives, Dow delivers on an aggressive target it set in 2006 to introduce three “Breakthroughs” that will significantly help solve world challenges, such as affordable and adequate food supply, decent... Continue Reading
By: WASH R&E “Media” Network – The issue of the lack of access to safe drinking water, poor sanitation and flooding has become a nightmare for many residents in the nation’s capital, Monrovia. The unbearable issue leading problems and conditions, posed serious health hazard to residents and the communities in which they live. Huge piles of garbage can been seen alongside the main streets in and around the capital city. The problem becomes more serious during the rainy season, especially at the peak of the rain. Not only communities, but market centers were food items are sold also face this... Continue Reading
By Coenraad Swart – Sir Winston Churchill once said, “I’m going to give a long speech today. I haven’t had time to prepare a short one.” In order to make your business competitive in today’s fast paced business world, your elevator pitch has to grab a potential customer or investor’s attention and make them want to engage with your business in less than a minute. As more often than not, we do not have a lot of time to sell our businesses to a potential client or investor by giving them a long winded speech. We have to then ask... Continue Reading
By Shout-Africa Correspondent – Tanzanian engineers have been lauded as the engine of success in the effective implementation of the government led projects including the Big Results Now (BRN) Programme. The call was issued on Thursday by the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the President’s Delivery Bureau (PDB), Mr. Peniel Lyimo when giving a keynote address on the Engineers Annual Conference in Dar es Salaam. The meeting theme was on the Role of Engineers in the implementation of the BRN. “We can have doctors to heal our wounds; lawyers to ensure protection of our transactions or religious leaders to pacify... Continue Reading
London, 26 August 2014 – A vaccine against cholera is being used on a large scale for the first time in Ethiopia by teams from the international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). The mass immunisation campaign will protect South Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia’s Gambella region, as well as the host community, against the risk of cholera spreading across the border from neighbouring South Sudan, where an epidemic had been declared in June. Cholera is endemic in the Gambella region, while overcrowding and poor sanitation in the area’s refugee camps could provide a perfect breeding ground for the Vibrio cholerae bacillus. More than 185,000 South Sudanese refugees have been registered... Continue Reading
