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Text of report in English by UN sponsored Radio Miraya FM website, Juba on 30 September The campaign to immunize against polio is still going on in rural areas of Central and Eastern Equatoria States. [Southern Sudan]. The delay is attributed to rain fall which has denied accessibility to the areas during the rainy season. The director of community based health care, and immunization in the GoSS Ministry of Health in Juba, Dr Anthony Lako, said that the three-day vaccination exercise,...
The Steering Committee for Egyptian cooperation with the Italian Ministry of Environment has agreed on 12/9/2008 to fund a project implemented by the Egyptian Regional Center and Water Studies in Iraq to maintain the inland water areas in Iraq which areconsidered to be the source of living for many people working in fishing and animal husbandry. The Head of the Regional Center and Water Studies said that the project aims to create water areas which is a key stations settled by migratory birds...
Water Resources and Dr. Mahmoud Abu Zeid said that flood waters is continuing to reach High Dam Lake on daily basis and we are storing amount of it and the rest issued for daily use of agriculture, industry and drinking water which is reaching now almost 235 million cubic meters a day. Flood water coming out of Tana Lake on the Ethiopian plateau reaches the High Dam Lake in just ten days, he added. This comes as a result of heavy rain fall on the Ethiopian plateau.The flood water runs 1341 km...
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nile Therapeutics, Inc., , today announced that Peter Strumph, Chief Executive Officer of Nile, will present at the NewsMakers in the Biotech Industry conference on Thursday, September 4, at 1:30 p.m. EDT at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York City. Mr. Strumph will provide a company overview and update on the status of Nile's current clinical development programs. The presentation will be webcast live and can be accessed by visiting...
Text of report in English by UN sponsored Radio Miraya FM website, Juba on 20 August At least 17 children are reported to have died as a result of measles outbreak in Lungochuk County, in Upper Nile State bordering Ethiopia. Disclosing this in an interview with Miraya FM today, the director of vaccination in Upper Nile State Ministry of Health Dr Peter Oganjok said, reports received thus far confirms that at least 17 children are said to have died as a result of measles in the area. Dr...
Vangold Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: VAN)("Vangold") have increased their land holdings in the West Nile District of Uganda (Kilo Moto) from 400 square kilometers to 1350 square kilometers. Having recently completed a reconnaissance exploration program in the West Nile (See July 30th 2008 press release), and in result of the recent discovery of Kibalian rock formations, (which are the source rocks for the large gold mines being developed in the DRC), Vangold has been granted 5 new exploration...
More oil, natural gas discovered in western Uganda KAMPALA, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- Tullow Oil, a company exploring for oil in western Uganda, announced on Wednesday that it had struck oil and natural gas deposits at Kasamene-1 exploration well, located in Butiaba region in the Lake Albert Rift Basin. The London-based company said in a statement on its website that exploration at Kasamene-1 encountered over 31 metres of net oil pay and at least six metres of net gas pay. "Downhole pressure...
"The Ministry of Irrigation is adopting an all-out policy to be implemented until 2017 with the objective of achieving the utmost benefit of available water resources," said Water Resources and Irrigation Minister Mahmoud Abu Zeid Saturday 1/8/2008 during ameeting with Egyptian university youths at the Leaders Preparation Institute in Helwan. These Investments will be channelled into financing projects to be carried out as part of the plan, Abu-Zeid said. He underlined that his ministry...
Nile Therapeutics, has announced that Mayo Clinic has initiated a Phase Ib, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical study of CD-NP, a novel chimeric natriuretic peptide, in development for the treatment of acute decompensated heart failure. The primary objective of Mayo's study is to assess renal, neurohumoral and non-invasive hemodynamic physiologic parameters of intravenous infusions of CD-NP in patients with heart failure. Key assessments include glomerular filtration rate, tubular...
By Andrew Martin Global food shortages have placed the Middle East and North Africa in a quandary because they are facing a choice of growing more crops to feed an expanding population or preserving their already scant supply of water. For decades, countries in this region have drained aquifers, sucked the salt from seawater and diverted the Nile to make the deserts bloom. But those projects were so costly and used so much water that it remained far more practical to import food than to...
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Image Credit: Earedien/Wikipedia The Nile puffer is also known as the fahaka pufferfish, globe fish, or lineatus puffer. It is a tropical freshwater puffer found in the river basins of Africa, mainly in the Nile and surrounding rivers. The fish will live in weed beds, and in any other vegetation-rich habitat. It can also be found in open water. If kept as a pet it is best to keep it solitary. The Nile puffer is territorial and aggressive toward other fish. Even young Nile puffer will...
The marbled lungfish is found mainly in the Nile river, in the northeastern continent of Africa. It also is found in such lakes as the Albert, Edward, Tanganyika, Victoria, Nabugabo, No and Kyoga, all centrally located in Africa at the southern end of the Nile. They live in the shallow areas of these lakes, streams, rivers, and swamps. During the dry season, many of the areas will dry up and when this occurs the marbled lungfish will bury themselves in the mud leaving just a small opening...
The Nile lechwe (Kobus megaceros), a species of antelope, is also known as Mrs Gray's lechwe, the waterbuck, or the wasserbock. It can be found in Ethiopia and Sudan, where it prefers a habitat within grasslands, steppes, wetlands, coastal areas, or swamplands with water reaching a depth between 3.9 and 16 inches. Leopold Fitzinger first described this antelope in 1855. The Nile lechwe varies in size depending on sex, with males typically reaching a weight of up to 260 pounds and females...
Symbol: AGAF Group: Monocot Family: Liliaceae Synonyms: AGUM Agapanthus umbellatus L'Her. Classification: Kingdom Plantae – Plants Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants Division Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants Class Liliopsida – Monocotyledons Subclass Liliidae Order Liliales Family Liliaceae –...
The Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus is a cichlid fish of African origin which is native from Syria into east Africa through the Congo to Liberia. It is a species of high economic value and is widely introduced outside its natural range; probably next to O. mossambicus it is the most commonly cultured cichlid. The Nile tilapia is variously reported in literature to be a plankton feeder, an omnivore, and to feed on higher plants to the extent that it may be used in weed control. Photo...
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