Latest east Africa Stories
PARIS, April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- eServGlobal (LSE:ESG & ASX:ESV) announces it has won a significant US$12m strategic framework contract with a major mobile operator group in the Middle East and North Africa. Using eServGlobal's software, this operator group will deliver end-to-end mobile money services to its subscribers across countries in the Middle East and North Africa. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120730/552126 ) The comprehensive...
HOUSTON and MUSCAT, Sultanate of Oman, March 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Flotek Industries, Inc. ("Flotek" or the "Company") announced this morning the execution of a Letter of Intent (the "Agreement") with an affiliate of Gulf Energy, LLC ("Gulf Energy"), a leading Oman-based diversified oil and gas concern, to construct an advanced oilfield chemistry production facility and create a state-of-the-art research and development organization to address the growing need for advanced oilfield...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A joint expedition of researchers from The Field Museum and the University of Illinois at Chicago has discovered a 600-year-old Chinese coin on the Kenyan island of Manda. While the discovery of the coin may be fascinating, the more significant discovery is that the coin’s presence indicates the presence of trade between China and east Africa decades before the arrival of European explorers. The small coin was disk-like and made...
The DDC is the first and only data center facility in East Africa to provide direct fiber access to five undersea cable systems connecting Europe, the Middle East, and Asia markets with Africa. MTN selects DDC for collocation and undersea fiber cable head cross connect services in support of network expansion in Africa. United Arab Emirates, Dubai (PRWEB) March 04, 2013 The Djibouti Data Center (DDC) has announced today at the Capacity Middle East Conference the launch of its commercial...
NAIROBI, Kenya, February 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- 4th Eastern Africa Oil, Gas & Energy Conference 2013, held in Nairobi Recent large and world-class gas discoveries in Mozambique and Tanzania, with potential for more to come, and commercial oil flows in Kenya, show the potential of the enormous exploration frontiers of Eastern Africa, both onshore and offshore. The impact of this resurgence is rebalancing the Africa oil-gas industry landscape into a wider...
KIGALI, Rwanda, January 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Following the launch in Kigali, The East Africa Exchange will be introduced to the international community at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, Nicolas Berggruen of Berggruen Holdings, Wiebe Boer of Heirs Holdings and Jendayi Frazer of 50 Ventures will present the project at a press conference today, January 23 at 4:30pm (GMT +1), which can be watched at this link....
On 50(th) anniversary of the foundation in East Africa, $1 million awarded to organizations advancing democracy, inclusion and opportunity NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Ford Foundation continued the celebration of its 50(th) anniversary in East Africa today by honoring ten organizations as Champions of Democracy, a special recognition that includes a $100,000 grant to each organization to advance exemplary efforts to promote democracy and opportunity in...
While a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder shows the risk of human conflict in East Africa increases somewhat with hotter temperatures and drops a bit with higher precipitation, it concludes that socioeconomic, political and geographic factors play a much more substantial role than climate change. According to CU-Boulder geography Professor John O'Loughlin, the new CU-Boulder study undertaken with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder is an attempt to...
PARIS, October 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Satellite broadcasting in the Middle East and North Africa will soon be gaining powerful new broadcasting resources following the order announced today by Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) of a new satellite from Thales Alenia Space. Called EUTELSAT 8 West B, the high-capacity spacecraft will be launched in 2015 to 8degree(s) West, joining satellites already operated at the adjacent 7degree(s) West position by Eutelsat and...
STOCKHOLM, September 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The use of mobile VoIP in the Middle East and Northern Africa is growing quicker than in the west. Four of the top ten free social networking apps in Middle East are VoIP apps, compared to only two in west. To support the demand, Plingm launches its first Arabic version. Plingm, the Swedish based mobile VoIP app has been well received in the Middle East. Since January this year, the number of Plingm app-users have increased...
Latest east Africa Reference Libraries
The Orbiculate Cardinalfish (Sphaeramia orbicularis) is a cardinalfish that belongs to the family of Apogondiae. This fish grows to be 10 inches in length. The Orbiculate Cardinalfish has a thick, dark, vertical "waistband" that is sprinkled with dark spots heading toward the tail of the fish. This fish is found in coastal areas across the Indo-Pacific, along with East Africa, the Ryukyu Islands, New Caledonia, eastern Caroline, Kiribati, Belau, and the Mariana Islands. The male Orbiculate...
The Silver Moony (Monodactylus argenteus), is a perciform fish found in the Red Sea and East Africa to Samoa, North to the Yaeyamas, south to New Caledonia and Australia. This fish is often kept in brackish water aquaria. Silver moony has a silver body in a triangular shape. They have big eyes and crossed with a dark ray. Its fins are silver with yellow reflection.
Gerenuks (Litocranius walleri), are a type of antelope or gazelle with remarkably long necks that are found in East Africa. It is also known as Waller's Gazelle. The word gerenuk comes from the Somali language, meaning "Giraffe-necked". Gerenuks eat leaves and shoots from trees and tall bushes by standing on their hind legs and stretching out their long necks. They will also eat buds, flowers, and fruits. Gerenuks have a small head for their body, but their eyes and ears are big. Unlike...
The Klipspringer (Oreotragus oreotragus), is a small African antelope that is found from the Cape of Good Hope all the way up East Africa and into Ethiopia. Its name means "˜rock jumper' in Afrikaans. It is also known informally as a myundla, which in Xhosa, means "˜rabbit'. Reaching approximately 22 inches at the shoulder, Klipspringers are relatively small compared to their relative antelopes cousins. Only males have horns that are about 4 to 6 inches long. They stand on the tips of...
The Lesser Kudu (Tragelaphus imberbis), is a forest antelops found in East Africa and possibly the southern Arabian Peninsula. Lesser Kudu live in dry thorn bush and forest and eat mainly leaves. Lesser Kudu are nocturnal. They live in groups of two to five ranging up to twenty-four on rare occasions these have about equal numbers of males and females. Lesser Kudu stand about a 40 at the shoulder and weigh 110 - 220 pounds, males are larger than females. Males are grey-brown while females...
