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SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA OFFERS ECONOMIC PROMISE, BUT FRAUD STILL A MAJOR PROBLEM
BY STEVEN SWINDELLS and BILL CORCORAN, in Johannesburg; and WACHIRA KIGOTHO, in Nairobi
WITH sub-Saharan Africa’s mobile telecommunications sector growing healthily and its offshore oil sector showing signs of great promise in the short and medium term, the region – usually regarded as the world’s poorest and least stable – could be a zone of stability during the global recession.…
UN OFFICIALS HELP UGANDANS FIGHT BANANA PLAGUE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EDUCATING farmers in simple disease control techniques has rolled back a Uganda cooking banana plague, threatening to destroy this staple crop, upon which 14 million people depend. A joint UN Food & Agriculture Organisation-Uganda government project has advised 3,000 farmers on fighting banana bacterial wilt (BBW).…
UN EXPERTS CONTAIN UGANDA BANANA DISEASE OUTBREAK
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN Food & Agriculture Organisation has helped more than 3,000 Uganda banana producers contain an outbreak of banana bacterial wilt (BBW), a potentially devastating disease. Its experts have introduced precautionary planting methods preventing the pathogen spreading.
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TEA PRODUCTION MADE ENVIRONMENT FRIENDLY IN EAST AFRICA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
"TEA is known to be good for you, now it is also getting better for the environment:" so said UN Environment Programme (UNEP) executive director Achim Steiner, when launching renewable power initiatives in east Africa. UNEP is coordinating two Global Environment Facility (GEF)-financed projects greening tea production in the region, where it is a pivotal industry.…
NUCLEAR SECURITY BOOSTED IN AFRICA WITH EUROPEAN AID
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SECURITY of nuclear power installations may be a priority in terrorism-fearing rich countries, but not in poorer states, with many other problems. But it is equally important of course: nuclear accidents, sabotage and terror attacks are devastating wherever they occur.…
SCIENTISTS DEVELOP NANOTECHNOLOGY FUEL MARKERS TO BEAT DIESEL AND PETROL THIEVES
BY MARK ROWE
A FUEL marker so complex that it is all but impossible for thieves to replicate has been developed by scientists; the marker is so sensitive, it can identify illegal stolen fuel by using nanotechnology-based components.
This nanotech-based tracer, developed by Authentix, a nano-science company based in Dallas, Texas, uses hand-held LSX-based technology, and which has already been taken up by Luke Oil, Shell and BP in the United States.…
NANOTECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS OFFER ADVANCES FOR OIL AND GAS SECTOR
BY MARK ROWE, in London
NANOTECHNOLOGY has huge implications for the oil and gas industry, according to leading scientists who attended a conference on the impact of this cutting edge science on the environment at the Royal Society in London. They stressed the technology offers the prospect of carbon emission reduction, resource use minimisation, hazardous chemical substitution, the chance to dramatically reduce fraud, and pollution reversal techniques.…
AFRICA GM TEXTILES FEATURE - MALI, SOUTH AFRICA, EGYPT
BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg
SUB-SAHARAN Africa’s biggest cotton producer Mali is mulling GM cotton trials, a development which could open up cheap cotton supplies for the textile and clothing trade.
But resistance from local farmers to high seed costs and tough times for existing GM cotton growers in South Africa – the only African country where GM is commercially grown – may mean that Africa’s potential as a key supplier is still some way off.…
ICC EU COOPERATION AGREEMENT - AU ICC COOPERATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has promised that its institutions will cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC), even exchanging information with its investigators. The cooperation agreement that will come into force on May 1 involves creating a central EU contact point for the ICC.…
AFRICA MONEY LAUNDERING FEATURE LOOSE LEGAL CONTROLS CORRUPTION
BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg
CENTRAL bankers, drug barons, warlords, corporate bosses and small town crooks in Africa are all washing their money despite attempts by governments and international law enforcement agencies to bring them to book. But financial crime has never been as lucrative as now on the world’s poorest continent.…