East Africa
Towards an integrated soil moisture drought monitor for East Africa
... Abstract. Drought in East Africa is a recurring phenomenon with significant humanitarian impacts. Given the steep cli- matic gradients, topographic contrasts, general data scarcity, and, in places, ...
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The First World War in Portuguese East Africa: Civilian and Military Encounters in the Indian Ocean
... Portuguese East Africa and in the neighboring German colony ...Portuguese East Africa carried by the Company’s ships would be able to reach their destination passing through the hands of the ...
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The movement of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis across borders in East Africa needs a regional and global solution.
... In 2012–2013, five GeneXpert (personal communication, Dr. Subroto Mukherjee, United States Agency for International Development [USAID] East Africa) machines were placed in Somalia, including two in ...
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Towards an integrated soil moisture drought monitor for East Africa
... The most advanced of these systems is the Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET), which operates throughout East Africa, Afghanistan, and Central Amer- ica. A United States Agency for International ...
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The role of papyrus plants (Cyperus papyrus) and internal waves in the nutrient balance of Lake Victoria, East Africa
... THE ROLE OF PAPYRUS (Cyperus papyrus) WETLANDS AND INTERNAL WAVES IN THE NUTRIENT BALANCE OF LAKE VICTORIA, EAST AFRICA. Amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus removed by the papyrus dominated wetlands of Lake ...
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Biogeochemistry of a large and deep tropical lake (Lake Kivu, East Africa: insights from a stable isotope study covering an annual cycle
... East Africa harbours the densest aggregation of large trop- ical lakes (Bootsma and Hecky, ...the East African Great Lakes, pelagic processes are predominant in these systems, with the microbial food ...
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Participatory Aspirations of Environmental Governance in East Africa - Comment
... in East Africa—such as the FAO in the Zanzibar Islands, and World Bank in Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya—it made sense for their activities to be coordinated in a synergistic ...
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Adherence to antiretroviral prophylaxis for HIV prevention: a substudy cohort within a clinical trial of serodiscordant couples in East Africa.
... Why Was This Study Done? One hypothesis for the varying efficacy of PrEP in RCTs is differential adherence— differences in whether trial participants took the antiretro- viral drugs correctly. Antiretroviral drugs only ...
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Mobility, expansion and management of a multi-species scuba diving fishery in East Africa.
... This study focuses on the scuba diving fishery and trade in Zanzibar (Unguja Island) in East Africa, which is a part of the islands sea cucumber fishery. Eriksson et al. [28] identified the general features ...
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Plio-Pleistocene aardvarks (Mammalia, Tubulidentata) from East Africa
... The oldest unequivocal specimens of O. djourabensis known so far come from its type locality Koll (Chad). The Ethiopian site, from which the new aardvark mate- rial referred to O. cf. djourabensis is described here, is ...
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Floral and Seed Variability Patterns among Ethiopian Mustard (B. carinata A. Braun) of East Africa
... In East Africa, Ethiopian mustard (Brassica carinata A. Braun) is cultivated primarily for its leaves, but in Ethiopia preference is high for oil in the seed. Dual purpose importance of the seeds for ...
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Climate change or urbanization? Impacts on a traditional coffee production system in East Africa over the last 80 years.
... 26]. Specifically, the practice of introducing shade trees into coffee plantations is considered a sound adaptation strategy to rising temperatures [25,19]. Shade trees protect plants from microcli- mate variability ...
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Sodium stibogluconate (SSG) & paromomycin combination compared to SSG for visceral leishmaniasis in East Africa: a randomised controlled trial.
... other East African countries, with an incidence rate of 30,000 cases per year and a mortality rate of 4,000 deaths per year ...in East Africa are primarily limited to the antimonial sodium ...
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Spatial variability of macroinvertebrate assemblages and the influence of hydrological and environmental variables along the Sigi River, Tanzania-East Africa
... In generally temporal variation of macroinvertebrate assemblages was found to be small, which could also be linked to the variation in environmental and hydrologic[r] ...
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Extension of the Avian Host Range of Collyriclosis in Europe
... However, the question of whether the swifts were infected before, during, or after migration remains unanswered. The lack of reports of subcutaneous collyriclosis in East Africa, whence swifts migrate to ...
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CILLIERS 2008 TheAfricanStandbyForce ISS paper160
... and East Africa, where the number of officers seconded from donor countries to training institutions, PLANELMs and regional structures are rapidly outnumbering their African ...
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Children who acquire HIV infection perinatally are at higher risk of early death than those acquiring infection through breastmilk: a meta-analysis.
... (South Africa, East Africa, West Africa), sex (boys, girls, unknown), maternal vital status (time-varying: alive, dead), antenatal maternal CD4 count in cells/ml ($350, ,350, unknown), ...
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Women Entrepreneurship in Romania: the Case of North East Development Region
... Women entrepreneurship benefit from a process of expansion all over the world. Business established and developed by women are an important source of wealth and improved living standards in many countries. Even though ...
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The foreign debt problem of Africa
... A clear example of the special currency situation in Africa is the CFA franc zone with special ties to the French Treasury ( 19 ) . It encloses the Comores, the West African Monetary Union (UMOA) and the zone of ...
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