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African Sickle-Cell Anemia Deaths Heighten By Vaccine Shortage

Despite readily available vaccines, death rate of sickle-cell anemia in African children remains to be a growing concern, researchers said Thursday.
Sep 11, 2009 by  John Louie S. Ramos in Health - 1 comment

Ugandan army captures top LRA commander

The Ugandan army has captured Mickman Opuk, who was close to LRA leader Joseph Kony. Opuk is said to have participated in the 1995 Atiak massacre of more than 200 civilians.
Sep 11, 2009 by  Bob Ewing in World - 1 comment

Mosquito bites transmit malaria 'vaccine'

In a very risky experiment in conducted in Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Scientist opted to used mosquitoes as "artificial injections," delivering live malaria parasites through their bites.
Jul 29, 2009 by  John Louie S. Ramos in Health - 1 comment

Homophobia and its impact on AIDS rates in Africa

In the newest HIV/AIDS study conducted by various researchers from Oxford University, the Population Council of Ghana and the Kenya Medical Research, they found how men who have sex with men have no safe access to relevant HIV/AIDS information.
Jul 20, 2009 by  John Louie S. Ramos in Health - 3 comments

U.N. says more than 1 billion people left hungry

According to a United Nations' (UN) estimate, one in every six people is affected by hunger. As a result of the global economic crisis, the world's hungry peaked at 1 billion.
Jun 20, 2009 by  John Louie S. Ramos in World - 3 comments

Army, Rebels, Clash in Central African Republic

Fighting has broken out between government forces and rebels in the Central African Republic. The Convention of Patriots for Justice and Peace (CPJP) rebels claim they have killed 24 soldiers.
Jun 14, 2009 by  Christopher Szabo in World - 2 comments

US Navy divers search for black box in croc-infested African lake

Lake Victoria in Uganda: Some 250 feet deep, murky, dark, crocodile-infested -- for divers searching for the wreck of a large military cargo plane it's similar to looking for a black cat inside a coal shed at midnight - without a flashlight.
Mar 28, 2009 by  Adriana Stuijt in World - 6 comments

UN to Ground West Africa Humanitarian Air Service

The United Nations said it is shutting down its Humanitarian Air Service in West Africa due to a serious lack of funding.
Mar 17, 2009 by  Bob Ewing in World - 5 comments

Belgium sues Senegal for hiding Chad war criminal Habré

The International Court of Justice in The Hague holds hearings in April, requested by Belgium, about Senegal 's refusal to extradite convicted war criminal and self-exiled former leader Hissène Habré, who was sentenced in absentia in Chad...
Mar 12, 2009 by  Adriana Stuijt in Crime - 3 comments

Serotonin turns locusts into cereal killers

Scientists from UK and Australia say that the brain chemical serotonin is the trigger that causes harmless desert locusts to transform and swarm into a crop destroying plague.
Jan 29, 2009 by  Naved Akhtar in Science - 2 comments
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