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Innovative Book Cites Thousands of Inventions By People of Color

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Brooklyn, NY (January 2, 2012) – Black Inventors, Crafting Over 200 Years of Success, highlights the work of Black inventors from over seventy countries. The author, Keith C. Holmes, has spent more than twenty years researching Black inventors from countries that include Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Canada, Cuba, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Ghana, Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Guya

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KENYA: Women Set to Make Their Mark in Politics

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By Protus Onyango Water Minister Charity Ngilu was the first woman to run for the presidency in Kenya, in 1997. / Protus Onyango/IPS NAIROBI, Jan 4 (IPS) – The August 2012 elections in Kenya will open doors to massive political participation by women for the first time ever. The new constitution in effect since August 2010 [...]

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Road to Rio+20 – Fresh Opportunity to Scale-Up Sustainable Development?

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2012 will mark some major milestones in the race to realize sustainable development as nations navigate the final laps on the Road to Rio+20. The UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) as it is formally known and now scheduled for later in June will address two over-arching themes-a Green Economy in the context of sustainable [...]

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Tunisia: Microsoft Engages Youth in Rural North-West

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A group of approximately 105 Tunisian students gathered in Ain Draham (located in north-western Tunisia near the Algeria border) on the weekend of December 16th for a technological forum sponsored by Microsoft. During the conference Microsoft Tunisia helped prepare the youth participants for its latest “Imagine Cup,” a tech-design competition. The national final of this [...]

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Nigeria: Nigcomsat-1r to Create 1.9 Million Jobs in Five Years

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Following the successful launch of a replacement for the de-orbited communication satellite, NIGCOMSAT-1R, Managing Director of NigComSat Ltd., Ahmed Rufai, tells the media that more jobs would be created, among other benefits. Senior Correspondent Ngozi Oboh was there. NIGCOMSat-1 IN-ORBIT TESTING ONGOING We termed 2011 a year of fulfillment of promise. As we are aware [...]

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SA: Global partners join forces on SKA

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The world’s biggest telescope project has taken a crucial step forward, with its international partners joining forces and agreeing funding for the detailed design of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). The SKA is a €1.5-billion global science project to build the world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope. Scientists, engineers and industry partners from around [...]

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Kenya: Cost of Doing Business a Big Worry for Firms

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Three days into 2012 and the main concern of corporate companies remains fundamentally the same: the cost of doing business. Though many executives reckon that it is difficult to forecast the events that will shape this year, they are taking a bit of comfort in the fact that the direction of the cost of living [...]

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Norwegian Minister of Health visits Tanzania 2-7 January

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Norwegian Minister of Health visits Tanzania 2-7 January OSLO, Norway, January 5, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — To improve the health of mothers and newborn babies is the goal for a special partnership between Tanzania and Norway. This week the Norwegian Minister of Health, Ms Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen is here to learn about [...]