The Africa Report, 9 March 2021DRC: Biden ends sanctions-relief deal for businessman Dan GertlerBy Patrick SmithThe leaked records, which document an elaborate system of money movements centred on Afriland First Bank‘s branch in Kinshasa, were made public by the campaign group the Platform for...
For those who collect currency, the only way to obtain crisp, clean notes is from a bank branch in Sao Tome. I was able to purchase a wad of 100, uncirculated, 10-dobra banknotes.Throughout the country, bank notes are almost always old, stained, damp, torn, creased and in very bad ...
According to Mamphela Ramphele, a former managing director of the World Bank and a former chair of Gold Fields Limited (a major South African gold mining company), the crisis in the platinum fields is exacerbated by the ANC’s alliance with the NUM, a relationship that is manifest in an NU...
... African nations that have received large aid grants and subsidies from Qaddafi and which now stand to suffer economically -- Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Chad -- are now being offered standard usurious World Bank aid grants with the provision that they succumb to the dictates of AFRI...
recovered segment B. Also, the administered vaccine Nobilis® Gumboro D78 was not available across all GenBank databases for comparison with the 7W5 identified from this study, hence we could not confirm if it was a vaccine strain. However, recent studies have reportedInfectious bursal disease...
Ironically, while critised by international bodies like the IMF and World Bank, Ethiopia had managed to run the fastest growing economy in Africa last year. With the EU crumbling for its survival, this should come as a humble reminder that the Western way is not the only way. As you can...
Anopheles stephensi, an Asian malaria vector, continues to expand across Africa. The vector is now firmly established in urban settings in the Horn of Africa. Its presence in areas where malaria resurged suggested a possible role in causing malaria outbr
The lake was still and, apart from the bank where we had camped, walled by mossy granite. Benjamin came down to join us for a swim (true to form in tight, French Speedos). We checked the water for Hippos and dived in. Another day’s drive brought us into the mountains, where Dan ...
Branch support values were calculated using a faststep heuristic search with 10 000 bootstrap replicates. A bootstrap majority-rule consensus tree was calculated in PAUP. We included an ITS sequence from GenBank; EF638213.1 (Acacia (Senegalia) senegal) from Zimbabwe. Sequences of Vachellia (Syn....
Sequence inspection and bioinformatics analysis indicated that the GhV-F sequence in Genbank (accession code AFH96010.1) is likely incorrect due to a single-nucleotide deletion near the N-terminus, which resulted in an extra-long N-terminus with no predicted signal peptide. The details, rationale ...