Spread of malaria, Rift Valley fever, and avian flu far more likely if researchers continue to 'operate in silos' and if solutions ignore local conditions

Dubai, 31st July 2008; Business Logic Systems, the business intelligence and marketing campaign software company focused on the mobile telecoms industry, is expanding its operations in the Middle East with the opening of an office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Bharatbook.com included a book that provides detailed information on the pharmaceutical companies in the Middle East and Africa. The pharma company profiles in the Middle East & Africa are discussed.

Tim Bowles, the Director of International Development of Youth for Human Rights International, recently returned from West Africa where he is working to implement sweeping human rights reforms. Below are excerpts from an interview of Tim by the Scientology Press Office.

Two surgeons are calling on the international health community to recognize that surgical conditions account for a huge burden of disease in the developing world, and that the human right to health must include access to essential surgical care.

SAPESI (South Africa Primary Education Support Initiative), an NPO based in the Republic of South
Africa (hereafter South Africa) and Sony Corporation (hereafter Sony) today announced Sony’s support for the “South Africa Mobile Library Project”.

Kenya was recently in the news for an unprecedented level of political and ethnic violence that followed the bungled December 27th 2007 presidential election. The country is back on a precipice.

It is common for professional archaeologists and paleoanthropologists working in Africa to populate western museums with foreign artifacts by excavating and permanently removing them from history rich communities in Africa.

A 39-nation coalition in Africa passed a declaration on Tuesday to ban cluster bombs in a nearly unanimous vote. The gathering in Lukasa, Zambia was the first meeting of the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) in Africa.

The World Bank's chief Zoellick outlines plan to advance development in Africa in face of market turmoil, high food and energy prices.

Throughout Zimbabwe there has recently been an upsurge of religious revivalism linked no doubt with the desperate state of the country. Signs and portents are being perceived as ushering in messianic days. Into this situation the news that the Ark of the Covenant has been discovered in the storeroom of a Harare museum has fallen like a thunderbolt.

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi says China's growing cooperation with countries in Africa is rooted in long-standing friendship. He made his comments Wednesday at a news conference on the sidelines of the annual session of China's legislature, the National People's Congress.