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...more worrisome than the loss of athletes and prestige is the loss of professionals that is occurring concurrently. Statistics show that sub-Saharan Africa has registered slower growth than any other region in the world, but this data fails to note that there are more African engineers in Europe and America than in Africa. A continent simply cannot grow without professionals...
Issues discussed by the candidates included the future of SAA’s budget, which is larger than it has ever been, and the relationship between the umbrella group SAA and its seven sub-groups...
According to Tandon, the SAA has always provided guidance and financial assistance to its sub-groups for journal publications and advertising. But with the recent growth of these groups, most notably the South Asian Men’s Collective, miscommunications have been on the rise, said co-president emeritus Prital S. Kadakia...
...news is that progress is confined to less than half of the world’s population. More than a billion are trapped in unspeakable poverty, forced to survive on less than a dollar a day. The problem is particularly severe in sub-Saharan Africa. There, deadly diseases such as AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria are on the rise. The quality of physical environments is in many instances on a path to ruin, reflecting unsustainable demands on soils, waters, and the biota imposed by peoples driven to survive in the present without the luxury of planning for the future...
Environmental problems in the past were experienced mainly on a local level, associated usually with effluents, both domestic and industrial, responsible for some combination of dirty air and polluted water (both surface and sub-surface) with complex consequences for both human and ecosystem health. It was relatively easy to associate cause with effect. Burning coal adds large concentrations of sooty materials to the atmosphere, in addition to gaseous compounds of nitrogen and sulfur oxides and a variety of toxic elements including, for example, mercury. The effluents from coal burning have a demonstrably negative effect on human health. It took...