Africa urged to up research budget

Tanzanians urged to donate to research initiatives
Daily News
ZANZIBAR President Ali Mohammed Shein has urged the private sector to build a culture of donating for research initiatives in the country to boost development. “Research helps to get out of the problems. It is high time the private sector and ...

The government is calling on the private sector to help fund research and development (R&D) programmes, as finance continues to drop. The government has struggled to allocate one per cent of the Gross Domestic Product to R&D, according to Prof Makame Mbarawa.

Address community problems through research, dons urged
Daily News
ACADEMICIANS were Monday challenged to conduct researches that address community problems instead of focusing solely on their academic ambitions. Speaking at an event to mark the Dar es Salaam University College of Education (DUCE)'s research ...

Policy and decision-makers have been challenged to continue using research findings to conserve Africa’s deltas and floodplains.

Investors are seeking opportunities in new sectors and geographic locations with Dubai and the UAE a well-placed hub to drive and facilitate growth

Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) countries are placing more attention on new markets in east, west and southern Africa as their trade flows with the continent expand, according to a report released by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) in conjunction with Falcon and Associates (http://www.falconandassociates.ae).

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Dr Stefan Oschmann Vice Chairman of Merck Executive Board; Hon. Sarah Opendi Minister of State of Health of Uganda; His Excellency Ambassdor of Unesco to Kenya; Unesco Representative and Young African Researchers from across more than 25 countries. To attend Unesco Merck Africa Research Summit.

-UNESCO-Merck Africa Research Summit aims to define interventions to prepare for the road ahead in Africa’s development as an international hub for research excellence and scientific innovation

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Research: Early humans in Africa may have interbred with an unknown species  The Next Web

IBM Research Scientist, Dr. Kommy Weldemariam with pupils from Riara School, Nairobi exploring how technology can help improve educational outcomes.

*Launch project in Mombasa County, Kenya using technology to improve understanding of educational challenges in schools

RTI International  (http://www.rti.org) – a leading nonprofit research institute – and IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) Africa research lab (http://www.research.ibm.com/labs/africa) have announced a partnership to deploy big data analytics...

Africa: Budget Committee Applauds Ground-Breaking for New Home of Criminal ...
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Applauding the start of construction last month of a new facility for the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in the United Republic of Tanzania, Stephen Cutts, Assistant Secretary-General of the Office of Central Support Services, ...