Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork An unusual method for producing antibiotics may help solve an urgent global problem: the rise in infections that resist treatment with commonly used drugs, and the lack of new antibiotics to replace ones that no longer work. The method, which extracts drugs from bacteria that live in dirt, has yielded a […]
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork THE Federal Government’s yearly rice import bill from Vietnam has hit about $500 million (N84 billion) according to the Nigerian-Vietnam Chambers of Commerce and Industry. Besides, Vietnam also spends about $100 million to import agricultural products such as raw cashew nuts, cassava and oil palm from Nigeria. Indeed, Nigeria spends
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork The Kantanka is a car that was conceived, designed and made in Ghana. This brand of cars is probably the most promising of all the cars made in Africa right now. The Kantanka Automobile Company has announced that its cars willhit the streets in January subject to the Ghana Standards Authority
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The pictures of medical dysfunction were devastating — broken hospitals in Africa struggling, and largely failing, to contain the Ebola epidemic. As deaths mounted, the problems seemed intractable: no money, no infrastructure, no hope. But across the ocean, Haiti — a broken country if there ever was
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Follow us on Twitter : @GoAfricaNetwork Haiti is currently participating in the 18th International Conference of Heads of State and Government held in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia with the participation of 2,500 delegates from around the world. Several heads of state from Europe, America and Asia are present as observers. The Republic of Haiti requested
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has appointed Carlton Masters as Jamaica’s first-ever representative to the African Union. Masters’ appointment also includes the post of Special Envoy of the Prime Minister, and assumes the rank of Ambassador. The Office of the Prime Minister said his role would be to “seek
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork A new method for making chemicals that lure tsetse flies to traps has been developed. It uses a cheap by-product from the cashew nut industry as its starting material, so the discovery may mean the flies – which carry sleeping sickness (also known as African trypanosomiasis) – can be trapped
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Follow us on twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork A steady stream of teenagers fidgeting with forms and their backpacks flowed through the Midwood High School college office one day this month, all with lists of questions on their minds. But one of the school’s two college counselors was nowhere to be found. She had taken refuge in another
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork A “critical milestone” has been reached in South Africa’s plans to build new nuclear power stations, the government has said. In a statement, the government on Wednesday said the stage was now set for the preparatory stage of the procurement process that would be undertaken in line with the country’s
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