By Kizito Makoye, Dar es Salaam – Tanzania government has joined forces with South Korea’s investors to implement a 50-million dollars project in which 100,000 hectors of unused arable land are developed into large-scale irrigation farms. According to the director general of Tanzania’s state-run Rufiji Basin Development Authority(RUBADA) Aloyce Masanja, various food crops including rice paddies will be grown in a move aimed at boosting the country’s food security. According to Masanja experts from Korea are already working in the fields setting up irrigation systems in the valley located slightly over 100 kilometres south of commercial capital of Dar es... Continue Reading
Indian company, SAM BED NET comes up with a mosquito net that is designed in a new way to protect against malaria causing mosquitoes. The vast majority of malaria deaths occur in Africa, south of the Sahara, where malaria also presents major obstacles to social and economic development. Malaria has been estimated to cost Africa more than US$ 12 billion every year in lost GDP, even though it could be controlled for a fraction of that sum. Simply expand the Collapsible SAM BED NET and it’s ready to sleep in. There are at least 300 million acute cases of malaria... Continue Reading
By Nangayi Guyson – The United States has urged Egypt to immediately lift an emergency law and launch democratic reforms as protesters staged the biggest show of defiance against President Hosni Mubarak in a three-week-old revolt. Vice-President Joe Biden made the call during a telephone conversation with his Egyptian counterpart Omar Suleiman. However, Mubarak’s newly appointed deputy, Vice President Omar Suleiman, warned that hasty reforms could spell “chaos” in the Arab world’s most populous nation. Separately, President Barack Obama’s spokesman, Robert Gibbs, said Mr Suleiman’s remarks about Egypt not being ready for democracy were “particularly unhelpful”. The focus now seems... Continue Reading
By Frides Laméris, Netherlands – Excursus on ‘regular’ treatment of HIV/AIDS : Antiretrovirals – good or bad science? Click here for previous article – article 3 Click here for previous article – article 4 Image of AZT bottle We have taken notice of several ‘alternative’ medicines for AIDS which have been suppressed by the medical (and governmental) agencies. All according to the description and research of dutch animal micro-surgeon Johan van Dongen, as laid down in his 2003 book ‘AIDS, the greatest crime in medical history’. Whistleblower van Dongen lost his job many years ago due to great opposition to... Continue Reading
By Nangayi Guyson – Juba- “More the 30 soldiers have been killed in southern Sudan after two days of clashes among former pro-Khartoum fighters in the Upper Nile state against giving up their heavy weapons” , state officials said. The fighting around Malakal airport, close to the border with the north, began on Thursday when loyalists of Gabriel Tang, who commanded a pro-Khartoum force during the 1983 to 2005 civil war, objected to surrendering their heavy weaponry. The mutiny in Sudan’s army first broke out on Thursday in the politically sensitive southern town of Makalal. Twenty people were killed during heavy fighting,... Continue Reading
