Archive
A Breakthrough for Diarrhoeal Disease Research?
22/12/2011
In Bangladesh the Shigella- and E. coli bacteria kill 100,000 people per year, most of them children. Researchers are now trying to develop a vaccine against the aggressive diarrhoeal disease, shigellosis.
HIV-specialists in high demand
15/09/2011
In a country struggling with an extreme HIV epidemic, the University of Zambia is educating neuropsychologists to deal with the huge demand of professionals. The university now offers Africa’s only Master’s degree in the field.
Social Aspects of Solar Energy
02/05/2011
“If women didn’t have to walk for four hours a day to collect firewood, but instead could use a solar oven, and if they didn’t have to pump water by hand, but instead could have an electric pump run by solar energy, then their time could be spent learning to read and write instead.”
Towards a Mother Tongue School
23/02/2011
Portuguese has always been, and still is, the language of instruction in all schools in Mozambique. But this is about to change.
Gender Equality, Education and Poverty
28/10/2010
Wide eyes and smiles shine inside this dark and crowded space. The excited hum of adolescent voices bounces from concrete walls as students vie for clear lines of sight. It’s not often that foreigners visit Buluk Primary School and the entrance of several generates a palpable thrill.
Ancient Secrets of Zimbabwe
07/06/2010
In a country that was verging on collapse, researchers managed to keep digging – revealing secrets from one of the richest archaeological regions in the world.
In Need of Engineers
11/05/2010
“NOMA is not only a cooperation initiative, it also gives us tremendous development prospects,” says Professor Mohammed Tamim of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).
The Politics of Water
29/04/2010
“To see this makes my heart happy,” says Emma Bello, as she discovers the new borehole in the Malawian village of Katchakhwala.
The Healing of a Nation
22/02/2010
As Sudan prepares for its most historically important year since gaining independence in 1956, its traumatised population is in dire need of healing the wounds of war.
Bettering Barley in Ethiopia
19/11/2009
Norwegian and Ethiopian scientists are cooperating to make the most of barley harvests. The farmers participating in the project see noticeable improvements in their crops.