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NetImpact, a California-based health-care company, is applying technology to improve health-care delivery and disease control in Mali, one of the poorest nations in Africa. Earlier this year OnQ Africa B.V., a for-profit company in the Netherlands that invests private and public money in subSaharan health, telecom and education, awarded NetImpact a $125 million contract to install MDS 200, a portable disease-detection device, and NetCare 7.0, a software package that stores and analyzes medical data. MDS 200, which can run on battery or solar power in areas without electricity, instantly screens for viruses like...
...developing nations of Africa, foreign visitors have been bestowing gifts on local potentates since time began. Nothing much has changed except the value of the trinkets, which these days are more likely to be yachts and sports cars than beads and mirrors. In many subSaharan nations, a favorite scheme is to create a lucrative job in a project for an official's relatives or friends. For years the British-based Lonrho Ltd. trading house kept its Kenyan operations running smoothly with President Jomo Kenyatta's son-in-law as its head. When Kenyatta died in 1978, that connection...
...evangelist will carry his campaign for theocracy to Florida primary voters next week, he said, in much the same way that he carried a 20-foot wooden cross across America, Europe and Subsaharan Africa--on foot...
Despite massive international relict efforts the worst drought in recorded African history has thus far claimed perhaps as many as 100,000 lives in northern Nigeria and in the "Sahel," or subSaharan, nations of Mauritania, Senegal Mali, Upper Volta, Niger and Chad. More than 1,000,000 hungry nomads are roaming the Sahel, surrounding its cities in a futile search for food. Nomads in Chad have been forced to eat leaves and bark to stay alive. In Nigerias parched Northeast, villagers pillage anthills to get at grain kernels that the ants have stored away...
Current courses offered by the University which deal with Africa include Anthropology 105, Ethnography and Social Institutions of West Africa; Anthropology 118, Peoples and Cultures of SubSaharan Africa; Economics 118, The Economics of Tropical Africa; Government 122. The Government and Politics of Africa; and History 190b, The History of Africa and Its Emergence in Modern Times...
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