In 2021, during their virtual Investor Day commemorations, Philip Morris International (PMI) announced an ambitious target to accelerate their vision toward a smoke-free future by ensuring that smoke-free products account for more than 50 percent of the company’s total net revenues by the year 2025. This mark was an upward revision of their 2019 integrated […]
Tag: Science and Biotechnology
Zanzibar — ZANZIBAR has for the first time joined the world to mark the ‘Medical Laboratory Professionals Week’ with President Hussein Mwinyi promising to improve labs for reliable tests and studies in the country. Dr Mwinyi made the remarks in a speech read on his behalf by the Second Vice-President of Zanzibar Mr Hemed Suleiman […]
Makurdi — Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has set up an investigative panel to probe the alleged discharge of waste into River Benue by a biotech company with a plant on Makurdi-Gboko Road. A viral video on social media had, weekend, exposed a surface drainage allegedly constructed by the firm through which waste from […]
The UN in The Gambia is supporting initiatives to bridge the gender disparity gap in STEM through raising awareness and capacity-building support to women-owned businesses In the heart of The Gambia, an intrepid young woman called Fatou Juka Darbor is blazing a trail for women fuelled by her fiery passion for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering […]
Ghana is the first country to approve a new malaria vaccine that has been described as a “world-changer” by the scientists who developed it. The vaccine – called R21 – appears to be greatly effective, in a huge contradiction to previous ventures in the same field, BBC said. Ghana’s drug regulators have evaluated the final […]
Dialysis Nurses and Blood Bank Assistants received certificates, yesterday at the School of Nursing in Pamplemousses, after having completed courses spanning over six months in Nephrology and in Phlebotomy, respectively. The Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr Kailesh Kumar Singh Jagutpal, was present. The Nephrology course, launched in August 2022, saw the participation of 24 […]
Nairobi — The launch of Kenya’s first operational 3U Earth observation satellite, Taifa-1 has been pushed forward by a day. This is after Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) announced that the unfavourable upper level wind conditions would affect the flight trajectory of Falcon 9 Transporter 7 mission. Originally, the launch was slated to occur on […]
Nairobi — The Kenya Space Agency (KSA) is set to launch its first operational 3U Earth observation satellite Taifa-1 Satellite next week. KSA said that the April 10 launch will be aided by Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) aboard Falcon-9 Rocket from Vandenberg Base, California, USA. KSA and Defence Ministry said in a joint statement […]
Dodoma — MINISTER for Education, Science and Technology, Prof Adolf Mkenda has announced a 1bn/- award for local researchers in higher learning institutions who will emerge winners in the publication of natural science, mathematics, medicine, health and allied science features with a unique taste. The award will be presented to winners who will publish articles […]
African genomes carry more variations than European genomes because they have a longer evolutionary history, and thus they offer more insights into potential new therapeutic targets for detecting and treating rare diseases. For millenniums, whenever humanity has faced that which it could not explain, we have invoked magic or witchcraft. If we could not explain […]
Nairobi — Heifer International Kenya has opened applications for young entrepreneurs for the 2023 AYuTe Africa Challenge Kenya. AYuTe which stands for Agriculture, Youth, Technology aims to offer young entrepreneurs in Kenya the opportunity to pitch for investment in their agritech solutions to boost the incomes and productivity of smallholder farmers. “This competition provides an […]
The Government of Japan has agreed to provide an additional grant of 300 million Japanese Yen to Mauritius, under the Japan’s Grant Aid, ‘Economic and Social Development Programme’, to implement the new Coastal Surveillance Radar System project. In this context, an Exchange of Notes was signed, today, by the Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and […]
Amish Patel is a Signal Processing Engineer with the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory. He gave the second Science for the People Seminar. “The work we do isn’t science until it’s shared with someone who isn’t a scientist,” says Amish Patel, a Signal Processing Engineer with the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory. He is involved […]
Cape Town — South African Researchers Bring Hope for Developing New TB Vaccines Researchers at the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI) based at the University of Cape Town have broken new ground in developing for tuberculosis (TB), Times Live reports. The scientists, in collaboration with colleagues from Stanford University in the U.S., said: “Determining […]
Grasshoppers have a bad reputation. They’re not popular with gardeners And locusts, a type of swarming grasshopper, can do huge damage to vegetation and crops when they’re in a feeding frenzy. But more often than not, grasshoppers have more to fear from humans than the other way around. As we increasingly encroach on their habitats, […]
On December 9th, 2022, the 10th E-Cigarette Summit took place in London, United Kingdom (UK). Scientists, practitioners, regulators, public health sector and industry gathered during this one-day meeting point. Experts shared their scientific views on a major – yet controversial – public health topic. In fact, e-cigarettes and other alternatives to conventional cigarettes have been the […]
IN SHORT: There is plenty of evidence presented by countless scientists that global heating and climate change is destroying species, habitats, industries and, with extreme weather events, lives. Downplaying the climate emergency is dangerous. “There’s no emergency,” begins the headline of an interview with “dissident climatologist” Dr Judith Curry published on the independent South African […]
A temporary weather radar has been installed in Bel Ombre, a northern district of the main island of Mahe with the aim of improving forecasting skills and early warning systems during bad weather events in Seychelles. The installation of the radar is part of the Study of Precipitating Systems in the Indian Ocean by Radar […]