• In 2021, more women than men have become newly infected with HIV in western and central Africa. (statista.com)
  • Change in HIV-related characteristics of children hospitalised with infectious diseases in Western Cape, South Africa, 2008-2021: a time trend analysis. (bvsalud.org)
  • We used routinely collected electronic data to identify children born in the Western Cape with infectious disease hospital records for lower respiratory tract infections , diarrhoea, meningitis and tuberculous meningitis , from 2008 to 2021. (bvsalud.org)
  • To assess the extent to which waves 3 and 4 of the COVID-19 pandemic affected routine health services in South Africa, and whether there was any recovery in 2021. (who.int)
  • In a ground-breaking development, and as part of the ongoing commitment of the Western Cape Government to bolster and ensure a strong climate-resilient future for the province, the Western Cape Departments of Agriculture and of Environmental Affairs and Development Planning, yesterday, 7 November 2023, signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the School for Climate Studies of Stellenbosch University. (voxafrica.com)
  • Western and Central Africa is a vast area of diverse landscapes, cultures and languages. (worldbank.org)
  • Village water supply and groundwater resources in West and Central Africa. (who.int)
  • This blog comes from Johannesburg, South Africa, where investigative journalists from 28 countries are sharing their work at the African Investigative Journalism Conference . (taxjustice.net)
  • Mediatech Africa is a biennial advanced media and entertainment technology trade show held in Johannesburg, South Africa. (mediatech.co.za)
  • With Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali also strengthening their respective militaries to fight terrorists financed by France and the US, everyone can understand that the war will consist of the Africans actually fighting the US and French terrorist forces while France and the US fight the junta leaders and the Wagner group in the African states. (newsvoice.se)
  • The ground-breaking, pan-African search for storytellers attracted a whopping 1378 entries from 30 countries. (mediatech.co.za)
  • Results of search for 'su:{Africa, Western. (who.int)
  • Before 1994 South Africa was officially a bilingual country with Afrikaans and English the two official languages. (forumfed.org)
  • A new inclusive democratic system was established in 1994, one of the implications being that recognition had to be given to all the major languages in South Africa. (forumfed.org)
  • Many African economies adapted by shifting to the export of mineral and agricultural resources, which led to the European scramble for territory, occupying most of the continent by the end of the 19th century. (geographicus.com)
  • Europe's colonial interests in Africa haphazardly carved up the continent into unnatural territories, often forcing historic enemies into close proximity and leading to social problems that remain to this day. (geographicus.com)
  • Distribution of Rickettsia africae in the African continent and serologic evidence of spotted fevers in humans. (cdc.gov)
  • To better understand this implication, consider what happened in Africa with the telecommunications services: currently, 93% of the African population has access to mobile phones, while landlines phones were never massively deployed in the continent! (hindawi.com)
  • Thus, the African continent has the potential of directly jumping into the open IoT arena, completely skipping any siloed business or industry. (hindawi.com)
  • Researchers collected field data during foot surveys carried out over a 10-year period across the range of both western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) and central chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) - surveying an area of 192,000 square kilometers (72,000 square miles - equivalent to the size of the state of Washington) and including some of the most remote forests on the African continent. (newswise.com)
  • Researchers walked more than 8,700 kilometers (5,400 miles)-a distance longer than the north-south axis of the African continent, or from New York to London-while collecting data on great ape nests that was used to generate population estimates and trends. (newswise.com)
  • From military glitches to development hitches, discover our ongoing coverage of the power struggles shaping the African continent. (africaintelligence.com)
  • Africa Intelligence brings you exclusive coverage of the major political, economic and diplomatic issues at stake on the African continent, identifying power players on the rise and low-frequency signals on the horizon. (africaintelligence.com)
  • Most of South Africa's wheat is produced in the Western Cape, with the areas in the southwest corner of the province (known as Swartland and Rûens) being among the most important wheat-producing regions in South Africa. (earth.com)
  • A massive decade-long study of Western Equatorial Africa's gorillas and chimpanzees has revealed that there are one third more western lowland gorillas and one tenth more central chimpanzees than previously thought. (newswise.com)
  • Newswise - A massive decade-long study of Western Equatorial Africa's gorillas and chimpanzeeshas uncovered both good news and bad about our nearest relatives. (newswise.com)
  • South Africa's vineyards are mostly situated in the Western Cape, near the coast. (carlorussowine.com)
  • Dr. Ndongo Samba Sylla is a Senegalese development economist and has previously worked as a technical advisor at the Presidency of the Republic of Senegal, and as Programme manager at the West Africa office of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. (lu.se)
  • He was involved in the constitutional negotiations for the current South African Constitution and was further instrumental in the drafting of the Western Cape Constitution in 1996. (forumfed.org)
  • På denna sida hittar du en lista med avhandlingar från den färskaste och tillbaka till 1996. (lu.se)
  • 2002) The Blacksmith's Art from Africa Life Force at the Anvil. (wikipedia.org)
  • These true- and false-color images show southwestern Africa on July 21, 2003, and July 21, 2002. (earth.com)
  • Visiting the Cape winelands can be included in your South African holiday itinerary if you love historic buildings and wine. (discoverafrica.com)
  • He was the author of the Western Cape Languages Act, 13 of 1998. (forumfed.org)
  • In addition to the requirements in both the South African Constitution and the Western Cape Constitution a provincial law on languages, the Western Cape Provincial Languages Act, 13 of 1998, was adopted by the Provincial Parliament. (forumfed.org)
  • The MOA underscores the value of partnerships and collaboration to advance the Western Cape as a leading province in job creation, economic development and capacity building across disciplines. (voxafrica.com)
  • Over the weekend, Niger accused France of amassing military forces in several West African countries, as relations between Niamey and Paris plunge further into the abyss. (newsvoice.se)
  • The Moravian Church was the first denomination to begin with missionary work among the indigenous people in South Africa and today the church still has a very strong presence in the country. (scielo.org.za)
  • While most of the indigenous languages are regionalised, Afrikaans and English are the two official languages that are most widely spoken in South Africa. (forumfed.org)
  • Find holiday and business accommodation in the Western and Eastern Cape South Africa: Cape hotels, Hotels, holiday homes, luxury villas, health resorts bed and breakfasts, game lodges, backpackers and self-catering apartments. (capestay.co.za)
  • P.S. If you're looking for affordable Western Cape or Eastern Cape Accommodation Specials , we've got some great travel deals for you. (discoverafrica.com)
  • Storms River MouthThe garden route runs into the Eastern Cape , a province less popular with international tourists than its western counterpart but almost as rich in attractions. (discoverafrica.com)
  • The debates and controversies over modernity, from its origins in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century western Europe to the various sites of its deployment following the formation of colonial empires, have given rise to an abundance of literature. (jrank.org)
  • In fact, for intellectuals in developing nations, in China at the beginning of the twentieth century, or in areas under colonial domination in Asia and Africa, the essential concern is to find the resources indispensable to the preservation of a community identity in their complex relationships to the past, in their traditions, and in the "European canon. (jrank.org)
  • African libraries : Western tradition and colonial brainwashing / Adolphe O. Amadi. (who.int)
  • The ballots, which were largely rigged by the colonial administrations, allowed the new African states to be headed by leaders who were loyal to the ex-colonial metropole and determined to safeguard its interests. (lu.se)
  • Marked by this long history of repression, elections in French-speaking Africa, which long served the colonial and then neo-colonial order, now a neo-liberal agenda is perpetuated. (lu.se)
  • Schistosomiasis in twentieth century Africa : historical studies on West Africa and Sudan / Gerald W. Hartwig, K. David Patterson. (who.int)
  • In this paper, we show how a full-stack IoT framework can alleviate some real environmental problems afflicting countries in Western Africa. (hindawi.com)
  • If Western countries want to help developing countries, they must stop standing in the way of investigating corrupt business practices. (taxjustice.net)
  • Western Africa comprises 17 countries and is endemic for all five PC-NTDs and loiasis. (who.int)
  • This rare disease was found mainly in central and western African countries. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Western Africa is rich in freshwater biodiversity and regional endemicity, supporting the entire global populations of many threatened freshwater species including fishes, molluscs, dragonflies, crabs, shrimps and aquatic plants. (iucn.org)
  • CapeNature launched its State of Biodiversity Programme to assess and monitor the state of biodiversity in the Western Cape in 1999. (cederberg.co.za)
  • The Biodiversity & Wine Initiative is a partnership between the South African wine industry and the conservation sector. (cederberg.co.za)
  • This region was particularly important in the early 19th century as the source of most African slaves imported to the New World. (geographicus.com)
  • In recent years, Western Africa registered a very rapid economic development but, unfortunately, this fast development made environmental problems grow proportionally, in a region where dramatic climate changes and natural disasters already represent huge threats in both rural and metropolitan areas. (hindawi.com)
  • The current drought in western South Africa Western Cape province is withering and stunting vegetation across this crop-producing region. (earth.com)
  • At a time when several coup d'états have shaken this region, this book offers an original analysis and an indispensable reflection for understanding the current revolt of the African peoples, and in particular, the youth, who are calling for genuine democracy. (lu.se)
  • Currently, he is Head of Research and Policy for the Africa Region at International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs). (lu.se)
  • The Western Cape Government is looking at climate change's impact on its three strategic priorities, namely, jobs, safety, dignity and well-being. (voxafrica.com)
  • By doing so, we are mainstreaming climate change in the business of the Western Cape Government. (voxafrica.com)
  • Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Western Cape Government: Department of the Premier. (voxafrica.com)
  • Over 300 businesses entered PERA, which was launched three years ago by the Western Cape Government and is co-sponsored by Absa, Deloitte, Business Partners and Entrepreneurs' Organisation. (mediatech.co.za)
  • This project is an initiative of the Western Cape Government. (westerncape.gov.za)
  • Hall names numerous African tribes and nations throughout, and offers other interesting cartographic annotations such as the 'source of the Niger River according to Mr. Park' (Mungo Park, whose exploratory route is noted) and another 'source of the Niger River according to Major Laing' near the Mountains of Loma. (geographicus.com)
  • Blacksmiths emerged in West Africa around 1500 BCE. (wikipedia.org)
  • Other ironworking societies such as the Mandé peoples of Mali and the Bamana exist in West Africa. (wikipedia.org)
  • In much of West Africa, blacksmiths form castes, called numu in Mande. (wikipedia.org)
  • As the Saharan Air Layer moves off the west coast of Africa, it passes over a cooler, wetter layer of air. (nasa.gov)
  • Birth rates in West Africa are higher than anywhere in the world. (geoguessr.com)
  • It covers the entirety of western coast of Africa from River Zaire or Congo west through the Slave Coast, Gold Coast, Ivory Coast, Guinea, and north past the Grain Coast and Senegambia as far as the Bank of Arguin (Banc d'Arguin). (geographicus.com)
  • The West must help Africa by locking the doors through which the money flows, and the West must also pull up their socks to make these offshore companies more transparent. (taxjustice.net)
  • Research on population communication and implications for population policies in West Africa / Oladele O. Arowolo. (who.int)
  • Medicinal plants of West Africa / Edward S. Ayensu. (who.int)
  • For all their pious words about wanting to crack down on corrupt practices, western governments remain deeply implicated in facilitating the looting of Africa . (taxjustice.net)
  • With the novels subversively examining dominant Western images, tropes, practices, and discourses, they involve a critique of the traditional objectives and assumptions of white authorship. (lu.se)
  • Integrating african and western healing practices in South Africa. (bvsalud.org)
  • The main regional travel hub (and administrative capital of the Western Cape) is the city of Cape Town , which boasts an incomparable setting on the Atlantic coastline below the slopes of majestic Table Mountain. (discoverafrica.com)
  • The common factor in all these stories is the role of offshore secrecy jurisdictions populated by western banks, western lawyers, western accounting firms, and protected by leading western nations like the United Kingdom, which even as I write is vigorously trying to protect its Crown Dependencies from attempts to crack down on offshore secrecy . (taxjustice.net)
  • The Western Cape, having a predominantly Afrikaans speaking community, was the notable exception, and Afrikaans dominated official communication by the Provincial Government. (forumfed.org)
  • The Language Committee consists of 11 members representing the three official languages within the Western Cape, namely Afrikaans, English and Xhosa, Sign language and heritage languages. (forumfed.org)
  • Western Cape taking the lead The Western Cape, the only one of the nine provinces that has adopted a provincial constitution, has taken a practical approach to the issue of official languages. (forumfed.org)
  • Other provinces in South Africa have also government, but nowhere has the issue of languages been addressed so comprehensively and within an innovative and modern legal framework as is the case in the Western Cape. (forumfed.org)
  • According to Mexican officials, the victim was 36 years old and was originally from the Western African country of Guinea. (wwlp.com)
  • Even so, at the time this map was made, the slave trade, thriving since the 5th century was rapidly diminishing due to decreased demand for slaves in the New World, the British outlawing of slavery in 1808, and subsequent diplomatic efforts including treaties with over 50 African rulers outlawing the practice. (geographicus.com)
  • The two movies are among the top five highest-grossing South African films of all time. (mediatech.co.za)
  • Christian Post , Brandon Showalter: "Culturally, most of the African communities actually believe, by tradition, by their cultural standards, that abortion is a direct attack on human life," [Ekeocha] said at the time. (catholicism.org)
  • KALAMAZOO, Mich.-Dr. Howard Stein, professor of Afro-American and African studies and public health at the University of Michigan, will speak on "Africa and the Perversities of International Capital Flows" from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 31, in Room 2028 of Western Michigan University's Brown Hall. (wmich.edu)
  • A tremendous plume of dust from North Africa drifts toward the Caribbean and contiguous United States. (nasa.gov)
  • World were thought to be wretched, half-dead creatures that reflected the bondage African-born and Caribbean slaves suffered at the hands of their masters, working to the point of exhaustion in the plantation fields while having little to no agency. (cdc.gov)
  • Celebrating its 40th anniversary, the Foot of Africa Marathon will see entrants participating in the 42.2km, 21.1km, 10km and 4km fun walk through some of the world's most spectacular scenery that includes more rural parts of the historical town of Bredasdorp. (westerncape.gov.za)
  • They have a wonderfully colourful football team - the Cameroon Lions - who are my non-England team to follow in the South African World Cup this year (see http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/teams/team=43849/profile.html ). (steenbergs.co.uk)
  • This is how the Western world usually sees Africa. (lu.se)
  • Paediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital and the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. (bvsalud.org)
  • The Decanter team enjoyed Tesco's Finest Cinsault earlier this year, and it seems to have made way for this equally delicious Cinsault, also from South Africa. (decanter.com)
  • Tomorrow, 12 October 2018, Western Cape Minister of Cultural Affairs and Sport Anroux Marais will deliver the keynote address at the 2018 Foot of Africa Marathon Gala Dinner in Bredasdorp. (westerncape.gov.za)
  • Minister Bredell highlights that the MOA will provide an enabling platform to pursue local and international research and capacity-building opportunities (including joint projects) to build the climate change knowledge base in the Western Cape. (voxafrica.com)
  • Cricket South Africa (CSA), an affiliate of the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) and a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC), is the national governing body for the sport of cricket in South Africa and administers all aspects of South African cricket, men, and women, both in the professional and amateur sphere. (cricket.co.za)
  • These kinds of awards mean a lot to us, because it's further recognition of the impact the film industry can have on the South African economy," says Triggerfish CEO Stuart Forrest. (mediatech.co.za)
  • But we're proof that there is also an economic case to be made, that South African films and TV series can travel globally and deliver a significant return on investment. (mediatech.co.za)
  • and a panel of development executives from both the London and Los Angeles offices of The Walt Disney Company, as well as South African storyteller Gcina Mhlope, comedian David Kau, screenwriter Paul Ian Johnson, and Triggerfish's development team of Anthony Silverston, Wayne Thornley and Raffaella Delle Donne. (mediatech.co.za)
  • CFWIO in the context of the South African National System of Innovation and Official launch of the book. (saiab.ac.za)
  • 1 Many of the most commonly used contemporary pesticides in South African (SA) agriculture such as prochloraz, glyphosate, endosulphan, chlorpyrifos, iprodione, fenarimol and fenvalerate are hormonally active and have also been shown to cause adverse developmental effects in laboratory animals or in humans. (samj.org.za)
  • In terms of the South African Constitution there are 11 official languages in South Africa. (forumfed.org)
  • This natural-color image shows dual dust plumes blowing off the African coast on June 22, 2009. (nasa.gov)
  • Death toll from the fighting in Kasese District, western Uganda over the weekend has risen to 62, according to police. (co.ke)
  • With the ability to support larger communities came social growth and the development of large kingdoms, which spread across Western Africa. (wikipedia.org)
  • To these African civilizations, iron had become the key to their development and survival, and it was worshiped as such. (wikipedia.org)
  • For more information , contact Dr. Sisay Asefa, director of WMU's Center for African Development Policy Research, at [email protected] or (269) 387-5556. (wmich.edu)
  • Rural residents in the Western Cape (WC), South Africa (SA) are highly exposed to agricultural pesticides that could impact their reproductive development. (samj.org.za)
  • Its mandate is threefold, namely to promote multilingualism, to monitor the use of the three official languages of the Western Cape and to support the development of previously marginalised languages. (forumfed.org)
  • One session looked at stories dug out from the Panama Papers leak from offshore law firm Mossack Fonseca and investigations which have revealed a colourful mix of characters involved in looting Africa. (taxjustice.net)
  • Tony de Zorzi continued his run-scoring form with another century as Western Province clinched a bonus point victory against ITEC Knights in Bloemfontein. (cricket.co.za)
  • George Linde continued to deliver with both bat and ball, smashing 70 off 34 balls as Western Province finished on 366/7, the highest score in the tournament thus far. (cricket.co.za)
  • The Western Province bowling attack continued where the batters left off, taking wickets at regular intervals to restrict the hosts to 160 all out. (cricket.co.za)
  • Bad Light stopped play at the Mangaung Oval and the revised target was 338 in 40 Overs and Western Province won the match by 177 runs (Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method). (cricket.co.za)
  • We described temporal changes in HIV -related characteristics of children , aged ≤3 years (up to the third birthday), with infectious disease hospitalisations across the Western Cape province. (bvsalud.org)
  • Minister Bredell commented, "Climate change projections for the Western Cape suggest a likelihood of more frequent and more intense extreme weather events which threatens food security and economic growth in South Africa and the Western Cape. (voxafrica.com)
  • The 40th Foot of Africa Marathon will also boost economic growth and job creation in the district, which is much needed to open greater opportunities for all who call it home. (westerncape.gov.za)
  • Erratic rainfall in the Western Cape often produces wide variations in wheat yields and quality, with the country having a surplus of wheat only during very good rainfall years and shortages during the majority of years. (earth.com)
  • In a multilingual country such as South Africa this constitutional framework creates serious challenges to the various government institutions, but it also creates opportunities for writers, interpreters and translators as well as other professions. (forumfed.org)