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North African states meet on Al-Qaeda terror threat
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Tags: [Al-Qaeda, Sahara-Sahel, desert, terrorists, kidnapping, UN, North Africa, Burkina Faso, Chad, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Algeria] ...
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
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Anti kidnapping legislation passes second reading
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Tags: [House of Representatives, kidnapping, business, law, Nigeria] ...
Monday, 02 November 2009
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DNA tests to help slave descendants trace ancestry
(News/Innovation)
Tags: [DNA, slavery, US, Texas, Africa, ancestors, DNA, Family Tree DNA, migration, AfricanDNA.com, Henry Louis Gates, Jr, Ghana, Africa] ...
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
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Scientists use DNA to trace illegal elephant poaching
(News/Environment)
Tags: [DNA, trace, illegal ivory, elephants, poachers, Africa] ...
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
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France, African countries move to counter al-Qaida-linked groups in Africa
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... has been touring West African countries where the group has kidnapped foreigners, sometimes killing them, as was the case for French aid worker Michel Germaneau. His execution was announced by al-Qaida ...
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
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Glaxo, Pfizer JV opens HIV pipeline to generic companies
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... a novel integrase inhibitor -- a drug that prevents a virus from integrating its genome into the DNA of the infected cell -- which is being jointly developed with Shionogi, for which new clinical trial ...
Monday, 19 July 2010
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Obama signs US law to help Uganda fight LRA rebels
(News/International Relations)
... LRA's actions -- killing, raping, kidnapping children to serve as child soldiers -- "an affront to human dignity" that must be stopped. The Lord's Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery ...
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
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Sahara states to triple anti-Qaeda force: Algeria TV
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... from a series of kidnappings of foreigners will make them a more potent threat. The militants usually demand ransoms in exchange for freeing the hostages. In the latest kidnapping, a 78-year-old French ...
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
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Saharan states to open joint anti-Qaeda command HQ
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... plan to move towards joint military operations against terrorism, kidnappings and the trafficking of drugs and weapons," the source said. Security experts say better regional cooperation is key to containing ...
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
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New maize varieties to improve harvests
(News/Innovation)
... IMAS participants would use biotechnology tools such as molecular markers - DNA 'signposts' for traits of interest - and transgenic approaches to develop varieties that ultimately yielded 30 to 50 percent ...
Thursday, 18 March 2010
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North African states meet on Al-Qaeda terror threat
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... has exploited the vast spaces of the Sahara and Sahel to hide from authorities after launching attacks or kidnapping foreigners. "Obviously, putting into place effective and multifaceted border cooperation ...
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
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African gene trawl may provide secrets to long life
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... human evolution and specifically the story of disease evolution." Geneticists have long known that, on the level of DNA, there is no such thing as race. They have also known that Africa, the source ...
Thursday, 18 February 2010
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Breakthrough could create better ARVs
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... the three-dimensional structure of integrase, which is bound to viral DNA. When someone is infected with HIV, the virus uses integrase to paste a copy of its genetic information into the person's DNA. ...
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
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Music enthusiasts drawn to Mali desert for tenth annual festival
(News/Art and Culture)
... primarily for security reasons. Northern Mali has been hit with a travel warning by the US and British embassies following a series of kidnappings of Westerners by suspected Islamists. The headliners ...
Friday, 08 January 2010
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Genetic finds could mean medicine tailored for communities
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... Information (NCBI) reference human genome. They found about five million bases (units of DNA) of new sequences in each of the comparisons. These bases cannot be found in the NCBI reference genome. Five ...
Monday, 14 December 2009
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Troubled Chad moving to calmer phase: UN official
(News/Democracy)
... kidnapping of another in the wake of some 50 other attacks earlier this year. But Falavigna said the crushing of rebellions by Chad government forces and diplomatic contacts between the Sudanese and ...
Friday, 20 November 2009
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Shell helps retrain former oil militants in Nigeria
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... attacks on facilities and the kidnapping of oil workers have prevented Nigeria from pumping much above 2 million barrels per day of oil. The instability was costing the country $1 billion a month in ...
Tuesday, 03 November 2009
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Anti kidnapping legislation passes second reading
(News/Leadership)
Nigeria's House of Representatives has voted in favour of a bill prescribing a life imprisonment for those found guilty of kidnapping and hostage taking. Nigeria is ranked 4th in the world on the list ...
Monday, 02 November 2009
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DNA tests to help slave descendants trace ancestry
(News/Innovation)
A firm in Texas that pioneered the use of DNA tests in genealogy studies is involved in a project in Africa that could help researchers there trace migration patterns over the centuries and help African ...
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
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Nigerian rebels give up arms, raising hope for peace
(News/Conflict)
... ranked among the world's 20 leading economies. Sabotage of oil facilities and kidnapping of oil workers is costing sub-Saharan Africa's second largest economy an estimated $1 billion a month. Nigeria ...
Tuesday, 06 October 2009
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