Month: July 2011

Neue Behandlungsform durch Universitätsklinikum entwickelt Die Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin hat ein neues Therapieverfahren an der Klinik für Radioonkologie und Strahlentherapie am Campus Virchow etabliert, welches ausgewählten Patientinnen und Patienten die Behandlung von rezidivierenden Gehirntumoren […]

If Prof. Stephen Ahiawordor had so desired, the University of Ghana’s political science lecturer could have done better to point out to Mrs. Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings that she would not have so brazenly attempted to challenge […]

Five months after protests in Egypt forced President Hosni Mubarak to step down, frustration has grown at what citizens perceive to be slow progress on reform, prompting some to pitch camp again in Cairo’s Tahrir […]

Almost eight years after an estimated 50,000 people perished in a four-year conflict that also displaced 500,000 from their homes in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a tenuous calm prevails in the area. The […]

As the drought in Somalia intensifies, with an estimated 2.85 million needing aid, more and more relief agencies are looking at the option of cash transfers, saying the system helps beneficiaries by giving them freedom […]

The quality of a baby’s first solid food and teaching families about proper nutrition and hygiene are now part of Guinea’s agricultural investment strategy. Experts working on the 2011-2015 agriculture plan, to be finalized in […]

Eastern Africa is experiencing what has been described as the “most severe food crisis in the world today”, with at least 10 million people affected in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda, according to the […]

Government has been advised to be cautious in its spending and pricing of petroleum products in order not to impact negatively the 2011 budget. In its latest analysis of the fiscal situation of the country, […]