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AllAfrica: Zimbabwe: Partnerships Needed for Turnaround, Says Vice President
There is need to invest in infrastructure development through public-private partnerships to turn around Zimbabwe's economic fortunes, Vice President Joice Mujuru said yesterday.
AllAfrica: South Africa: Telkom Chair Rejects Claims of Meddling
TELKOM chairman Jeff Molobela has dismissed allegations that he had interfered in operational matters, which is said to have driven CEO Reuben September and chief financial officer Peter Nelson to resign recently.
AllAfrica: South Africa: Dreamer Dedicated to Housing a City
YOU need the vision of dreamer as well as the "can do" attitude of the business executive to bring vandalised and hijacked buildings back to life and turn them into affordable and attractive housing.
AllAfrica: South Africa: Recorded Future - CIA and Google Get Interested
Ex-Swedish special forces Ranger and software developer finds he can track future online relationships and gets Google and the CIA interested.
AME Info: UAE to extend Madares Al Ghad system to Grade 4
The UAE education ministry has said it will extend the Madares Al Ghad (MAG) programme to Grade 4 in the new academic year, Khaleej Times has reported. Launched in 2008, the curriculum was first developed for three subjects in Grades 1, 2 and 3 and only in the English language at the high school level. "This year, the MAG curriculum will be extended to Grade ...
AllAfrica: Zimbabwe: Housing Ministry Exhausts Allocation
The Ministry of Housing and Social Amenities has exhausted the US$10 million it was allocated by treasury as seed money for housing development.
AME Info: UAE university overhauls senior management
The American University of Ras Al Khaimah has fired three-quarters of its senior management because they were overpaid and "all doing the same jobs", its new president told the National. The new president, Dr Shaukat Mirza, said the university had been weighed down by too many highly paid staff with no clear definition of roles and purpose.
AllAfrica: Ghana: Promoting Young IT Entrepreneurs
Overlooking the Gulf of Guinea from the heart of the old center of Accra is a six-story concrete building that looks perfectly anonymous to the outside world. In fact, one would never suspect that more than a dozen start-up companies are occupying the entire top floor of the building, a meandering 9000 sq feet of office space that includes two IT laboratorie ...
AllAfrica: Rwanda: More Citizens to Have Electricity - Kagame
RPF Presidential candidate, Paul Kagame, has said that he will ensure that more Rwandan homes and businesses are connected to electricity by the end of next presidential term, if he is re-elected into office.
AllAfrica: Kenya: Planned Housing Needed
For nearly three decades now, the public sector has played a minimal role in providing quality and affordable housing to a burgeoning population.
Kenya: Rape Menace for Slum Women
South Africa: Municipalities Must Have Blue Drop Status by 2010
Rwanda: Rwandatel Sale - Some Nationalism Needed in This Business Deal
Kenya: Dawn Breaks for ICT Students in Slum
Botswana: Phakalane Completes Sowen Valley
Botswana: Botswana in Multi-Billion Pula Fraud
Kenya: State Drafts E-Commerce Bill
Kenya: It's Not Too Late to Slay Poor Urban Planning Ogre
Kenya: State to Speed Up It Access in Rural Areas
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·Nigeria: N6.1 Billion Sim Registration Tears House Apart
The House of Representatives yesterday witnessed another rowdy session following the disagreement amongst lawmakers over a proposal by the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) to expend the sum of N6.1 billion for the registration of mobile phone SIM cards in the country.
·Nigeria: Fuel Tanker Explodes, Kills Two in Lagos
COMMERCIAL and social activities in and around Apapa, Lagos were abruptly brought to a halt Wednesday after a petrol tanker exploded into flames burning its driver and motor boy to death.
·Zimbabwe: Partnerships Needed for Turnaround, Says Vice President
There is need to invest in infrastructure development through public-private partnerships to turn around Zimbabwe's economic fortunes, Vice President Joice Mujuru said yesterday.
·Zimbabwe: South Korean NGO to Construct Hospital
A South Korean non-governmental organisation, Africa Future Foundation, will next month start construction of a hospital in Harare.
·South Africa: Telkom Chair Rejects Claims of Meddling
TELKOM chairman Jeff Molobela has dismissed allegations that he had interfered in operational matters, which is said to have driven CEO Reuben September and chief financial officer Peter Nelson to resign recently.
·South Africa: Dreamer Dedicated to Housing a City
YOU need the vision of dreamer as well as the "can do" attitude of the business executive to bring vandalised and hijacked buildings back to life and turn them into affordable and attractive housing.
·Rwanda: 2,000 Community Health Workers Get Cell-Phones
Over 2000 community health workers in Ngoma and Rwamagana districts, on Tuesday, received mobile telephones.
·Rwanda: KCC Inspects City Houses
Kigali City Council (KCC) has called upon city residents to always construct their houses in accordance with the council's requirements.
·South Africa: Recorded Future - CIA and Google Get Interested
Ex-Swedish special forces Ranger and software developer finds he can track future online relationships and gets Google and the CIA interested.
·South Africa: Public-Private Partnership Delivers Rural Development
The Makhado municipality in Limpopo will switch on electricity to 50 poor households in Ha-Matsila village outside Louis Trichardt on Saturday.
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·UAE to extend Madares Al Ghad system to Grade 4
The UAE education ministry has said it will extend the Madares Al Ghad (MAG) programme to Grade 4 in the new academic year, Khaleej Times has reported. Launched in 2008, the curriculum was first developed for three subjects in Grades 1, 2 and 3 and only in the English language at the high school level. "This year, the MAG curriculum will be extended to Grade 4 where Mathematics and Science will be taught in English a ...
·UAE university overhauls senior management
The American University of Ras Al Khaimah has fired three-quarters of its senior management because they were overpaid and "all doing the same jobs", its new president told the National. The new president, Dr Shaukat Mirza, said the university had been weighed down by too many highly paid staff with no clear definition of roles and purpose.
·Georgetown starts pre-college summer programme in Qatar
Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar has launched a summer programme aimed at preparing upper level high school students for the university application process. The three-week Pre-College Summer programme will run from July 18 to August 5, and will include thirty-seven students from twenty-two schools across the country. The programme entails full-time classes in English, Math, and SAT preparation.
·Jordan, S Korea sign $70m nuclear research reactor loan
Jordan and South Korean are to sign a $70m loan agreement to finance a proposed research nuclear reactor at the Jordan University for Science and Technology, Petra news agency has reported. The proposed reactor is part of the country's efforts to establish a nuclear program to desalinate water, generate electricity and turn the kingdom into an energy exporter by 2030.
·Abu Dhabi recruits 212 new teachers
Abu Dhabi Education Council (Adec) has hired 212 new teaching staff and school specialists, from a pool of 18,000, as part of its 10-year strategic plan to overhaul the education system in the emirate. Almost half of the new recruits are Emirati, with 102 Emiratis and 110 expatriates, preparing to work in Abu Dhabi's government schools. The new school staff will teach subjects including geography, Arabic, English, Is ...
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·Smoking, distractions lead to numerous accidents this week
a driver heading toward Jackson on Highway 88 was distracted while reaching for a pack of cigarettes. According to witnesses, the driver drifted off the right side of the road, over-corrected and then spun out. In an instant, that driver had crashed into an oncoming sedan before ricocheting down an embankment and into a ditch about 100 feet below. Fortunately, the family in the oncoming vehicle, a brother and his sis ...
·MILLER: Secondhand smoke a health risk to your feline companions: Smoking increases health risks in your cat caused by seco...
A study from Tufts University reported that cats in smoking households were in fact at a higher risk of feline lymphoma cancer. . . .To help minimize your cats risk, quitting might be the best route. If not, consider at least smoking outside. In some cases, the study found that cats were at higher risk for cancer than the humans living in the same home, as cats continuously kept indoors are unable to spend extended ...
·Smokers may quit for fido: U.S. research
People unwilling to quit smoking to improve their own health may consider giving up cigarettes to spare their pets the harmful effects of second-hand smoke, U.S. researchers said on Monday.Twenty-eight per cent of pet owners who smoke said in a survey they would try to quit based on knowledge that second-hand smoke could harm their dogs, cats and other pets, the researchers wrote in the journal Tobacco Control.Anothe ...
·Errant smoking material likely caused Richmond fire
Mislaid smoking materials likely caused a fire that gutted an Arlington Boulevard home last week that killed an elderly resident, fire officials said.The fire broke out on the 6000 block at about 6 a.m. on June 11. Paramedics flew the occupant, identified by the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner as 76-year-old Nance Rogers, to a regional burn center. She died there Monday. . . .The department also advises anyone wh ...
·Combined exposure to dog and indoor pollution: incident asthma in a high-risk birth cohort: Eur Respir J 2010, doi:10.1183/09...
Evaluate effect of combined early exposure to dog allergen (Can-f1) plus indoor nitrogen dioxide (NO2) or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) on asthma and bronchial hyperreactivity (BHR) in a high-risk birth cohort; assess atopys impact on these exposures effects. . . . Atopy increased asthma and BHR risk associated with several exposures; notably, atopy with elevated UCot, relative to atopy without such exposure, i ...
·Dogs plus pollutants may raise asthma risk in kids
Kids who grow up with a dog in the house may be at higher risk of developing asthma if theyre also exposed to secondhand smoke or nitrogen dioxide, new research shows.Children exposed to the toxic gas and to dog allergen during their first year of life were nearly five times as likely to have asthma at age 7 compared to kids with neither exposure, while dog allergen plus secondhand smoke nearly tripled the risk.Most ...
·Secondhand smoke could affect pets
Amid growing evidence that secondhand smoke is causing cancers and possibly a range of other health problems in pets, many groups are intensifying efforts to encourage people to stop smoking -- if not for their own sake, then for their animals.Veterinarians are redoubling efforts to warn smokers of the dangers to their pets, and smoking-cessation programs, including Utah Tobacco Prevention and Control, Breathe New H ...
·Taunton woman perishes in early morning fire : Victim smoking in bed, fire detector turned off at time of blaze
Most residents on Burt Street were aware of the 4 a.m. fire, but hardly knew the victim and her roommate, 48-year-old Joyce Laporte. . . .Neighbor Mike Nelson said the women seemed very kind, taking in a stray cat that had wandered into the heavily wooded neighborhood."They kept to themselves," he said. "They tried not to bother anybody."An investigation conducted by the Taunton Fire Department and State Fire Marsha ...
·Caring for Diabetic Pets Helps Humans Get Healthier : Owners learn more about the disease and how to prevent it, study finds
Trnka recently participated in a new Canadian study focused on pets with diabetes, which found that caring for a sick pet may improve the pet owners health as well.Lead study author Melanie Rock, an investigator at the Population Health Intervention Research Center, and a colleague interviewed 16 pet owners as well as veterinarians, a mental health counselor and a pharmacist about what it takes to take care of dogs ...
·Woman tries to light cigarette near oxygen tank, sets condo on fire
A woman sparked a fire at her condo Friday when she tried to light a cigarette near her oxygen tank, Pinellas sheriffs officials said.Roxanne Brinley, 52, was treated at Mease Countryside Hospital for injuries that were not thought to be life-threatening. . . .Authorities say that at one point, Brinley tried to go back into the home for her two cats but was stopped by emergency personnel. It was unclear Friday night ...
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