Search Results for: South Africa

BY DEIRDRE MASON
IT may never equal the four-fold rise in the price of a barrel of crude oil that took place between 1973 and 1974, but this year’s hike to more than US$60 a barrel has given all those industries dependent on the stability of fuel prices a severe shock, and the aviation industry is one of those reeling from the increases.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A UNION of African Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Agriculture and Professions (UACCIAP) has been launched, a new organisation bringing together business interests throughout Africa aiming to “dynamise” their role in the continent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations (UN) is warning African countries to gear up for a possible increase in demand for male circumcisions, after the publication of a study suggesting it could significantly cut male HIV infections. The French study of 3,273 South African men showed that circumcised men were 63% less likely than uncircumcised men to be infected through sex with HIV-positive women.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A NEW tank-and-siphon system removing oil from water will soon be launched internationally. Developed at the University of New South Wales, Australia, the Extended Gravity Oil Water Separation (EGOWS), removes oil to below 10 parts per million, requires no power and can be used unattended.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has rebuffed calls from the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) for increased European Union (EU) tariff protection against dumped styrene-butadiene-styrene thermoplastic rubber (SBS), an adhesive ingredient. Furthermore, it has proposed abolishing existing anti-dumping duties on the product on Taiwanese producers.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
FIGHTING money laundering is about getting your hands dirty. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) may pronounce global standards that it would like jurisdictions to follow, but all governments need help, and often regional bodies are better placed to do the detailed work than more remote global organisations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
RUSSIA’S remote far-east Kamchatka peninsular is something of a sacred cow for conservationists, so it is no surprise the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has undertaken a detailed environmental impact assessment for a gold and silver mine project in the region.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation, has warned of an outbreak of classical swine fever in South Africa. It says 1,048 Landrace breed pigs have so far been destroyed in Worcester, in Western Cape province, in an outbreak affecting 6,500 animals confirmed by Pretoria’s Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
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THE TREATMENT of HIV/AIDS victims in developing countries with combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) has increased dramatically over the last two years, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has claimed. In a new report, it said this more than doubled from December 2003, when 400,000 poor country citizens were being treated, to one million in June 2005.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) review has ruled that existing European Union anti-BSE controls on imports of bovine meat and livestock from southern Africa’s Namibia, Botswana and Swaziland are adequate and need not be changed. However, the risk of BSE contamination in Namibia is growing it said, falling in Botswana and stable in Swaziland.…