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African inventions site honoured
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- 24 June 2008
AfriGadget, a volunteer-run website that documents African innovation and ingenuity, has been named one of Time magazine’s 50 best websites for 2008.
Rescuing the white rhino
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- 22 April 2008
Kenya on the mend
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- 21 April 2008
The appointment of Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga as prime minister in a power sharing agreement with President Mwai Kibaki has opened the door for true reconciliation in the troubled East African country.
Research into tropical diseases
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- 17 April 2008
A group of 14 neglected tropical diseases is about to be tackled head-on with the launch of a fellowship programme to promote African-led research into combating these dangerous illnesses.
Adventurer spreads his nets wide
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- 09 April 2008
South African adventurer Kingsley Holgate is yet again out into the wild in his Land Rover, this time circumnavigating the edge of the African continent and, on the way, distributing a million malaria nets to women and children.
African farmers' sorghum success
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- 04 April 2008
The spinoffs of a social responsibility initiative by brewers Heineken and Daiego which targets farmers in Ghana and Sierra Leone has been welcomed by breweries in Africa as well as the farmers involved.
Rollsing from Cape to Cairo
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- 04 April 2008
Driving from Cape Town to Cairo is hardly considered radical these days, but if you’re in your seventies and attempting to do so in an ultra luxury sedan, then perhaps it is.
