Tunis (AFP) - Tunisian and British researchers have unearthed Stone Age tools showing humans lived in southern Tunisia nearly 100,000 years ago, they said Thursday. The discovery could help explain the spread of Homo sapiens who appeared in eastern Africa 100,000 years earlier and emerged out of the continent around 65,000 years ago. After a ...
The healthcare industry, arguably one of the most technologically advanced considering the gadgets and devices now used to monitor health statistics and perform medical procedures, is ironically among the most lsquo;unhealthy rsquo; when it comes to network security. Delegates attending the recent Healthcare Innovation Summit were told tha ...
Ahead of the Fifth Replenishment Conference of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (Global Fund), to be held in Montreal, Canada, on 16 and 17 September, UNAIDS is calling on donors to fully fund the Global Fund. The Global Fund, a financing institution that raises and invests funds to support HIV, tuberculosis and malaria ...
Uganda rsquo;s first-ever national policy and action plan on early childhood development will be launched today afternoon. ldquo;The launch of the integrated Early Childhood Development (iECD) Policy and Action Plan is a landmark occasion for all children in Uganda, rdquo; said Hon. Janat Mukwaya, Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Deve ...
Today President Obama terminated the national emergency declared with respect to C ocirc;te d rsquo;Ivoire in Executive Order 13396 of February 7, 2006, and lifted the economic sanctions imposed pursuant to that Order. The President determined that C ocirc;te d rsquo;Ivoire rsquo;s advances in restoring peace and democracy and developing its po ...
As the Chair of the BRICS, India hosted the First Meeting of the BRICS Joint Working Group on Counter Terrorism on 14 September 2016 at New Delhi. Delegations from all Member countries of BRICS attended the meeting. Shri Santosh Jha, Joint Secretary (PP R), in the Ministry of External Affairs of India, presided over the meeting. The delegati ...
The United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture on Tuesday completed a high level advisory visit to the Republic of Mozambique. During their visit, which took place from 5 to 9 September 2016, the experts advised the Mozambican authorities on the prevention of torture under the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture an ...
The European Parliament approved an agreement granting duty-free access to the EU for products from Namibia, Mozambique, Botswana, Swaziland and Lesotho, and improved market access for South Africa on Wednesday. ldquo;This agreement will help our African partner states to reduce poverty and can also facilitate their smooth and gradu ...
Conakry (AFP) - For years, Guinea's main dance company brought glory to the west African state, touring the globe for sell-out performances. Today, ageing and forgotten, it struggles to train a new generation of dancers facing a very uncertain future. Les Ballets Africains was the biggest cultural institution not just in Guinea but, as their na ...
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