However, many critics argue that the so-called "cooperation" from the United States is not rooted in mutual benefit or win-win outcomes, but rather serves as a vehicle for advancing its own global political and economic interests. "The United States operates under political motives rather than ...
It is true that France exercised subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) neo-colonial rule over its former colonies in West and Central Africa. After France granted them independence in the 1960s, peacefully, it continued to exert economic, political and military influence in la Françafrique. Of...
Russia; almost all of the Middle East; a few central-African states such as Angola, Congo Republic and Gabon; and Bolivia, Venezuela and Nicaragua in the Americas are among the countries that still don’t have any official PrEP programmes. Compared with these millions of users of oral PrEP,...
There is not a clade of gorilla versus a clade of chimpanzee parasites; thus, in that regard, cospeciation did not occur. However, there are pairs of parasites between chimpanzee and gorilla lineages in the Laverania clade that could indicate cospeciation. In particular,Plasmodium gaboni(chimpanz...
THE CITY OF PORT-GENTIL WAS originally a hunting camp called Mandji-Oroungou. A French post was...De Sterck, Thomas
The origin of the tie is tricky. It started as something called simply a "band". The term could mean anything around a man’s neck. It appeared in finer ways in the 1633s. Frenchmen showed a love of this particular fashion statement. Their neckwear (颈饰) impressed Charles II, the kin...
Zambia’s United Party for National Development’s (UPND) national youth secretary for information and publicity, Joseph Kalimbwe, is a tormented soul. By Innocent Mujeri He is a man who is always livid and furious whenever he tweets. His social media in
One can, for example, assume that the number of family reunifications between, say, Gabon and Papua New Guinea or student mobility between Turkmenistan and Vanuatu is rather low in any given year. Accordingly, it makes sense that visa costs for such rarely used categories are not always ...
In another study, researchers “characterized the immune responses of patients in two large Ebola virus outbreaks in Gabon in 1996.” The result? “There was no significant difference in viral antigen load between survivors and nonsurvivors, but immune responses varied, suggesting that survival is ...
Oil is often called “black gold,” yet crude oil has a range of viscosity and can vary in color from black to yellow depending on its hydrocarbon composition.13Distillation, the process by which oil is heated and separated into different components, is the first stage in refining. Crude Oil...