East Africa is a strategic region to study human genetic diversity due to the presence of ethnically, linguistically, and geographically diverse populations. Here, we provide new insight into the genetic history of populations living in the Sudanese region of East Africa by analysing nine ethnic groups belonging to three African linguistic families: Niger-Kordofanian, Nilo-Saharan and Afro-Asia...

The Middle East is regarded as the region of the world most heavily affected by foot and mouth disease (FMD). The situation in the Middle East and North Africa constitutes a threat to other regions of the world, especially Europe. Risk management differs between North Africa and the Middle East due to different epidemiological situations. In the Middle East, the national cattle population is th...

Ticks, as vectors of disease and damage agents, impact directly and indirectly on the economy of the livestock industry in southern Africa. This study surveyed the occurrence and distribution of ticks infesting livestock across the North West province, South Africa. During three phases in consecutive years, officers of the provincial Veterinary Department collected specimens monthly from li...

Vegetation productivity is an essential variable in ecosystem functioning. Vegetation dynamics of dryland ecosystems are most strongly determined by water availability and consequently by rainfall and there is a need to better understand how water limited ecosystems respond to altered rainfall amounts and variability. This response is partly determined by the vegetation functional response to r...

Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa (Prof S S Abdool Karim MBChB, L Werner MSc, Prof Q Abdool Karim PhD); Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, NY, USA (Prof S S Abdool Karim, Prof Q Abdool Karim); and Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, Eshelman School of ...

1 Institute for Groundwater Studies, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa 2Department of Mathematics and Institute for Mathematical Research, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia 3 Department of Mathematical Sciences, North-West University, Mafikeng Campus, Mmabatho 2735, South Africa 4Department of Mathematical Engineering, Yildiz Technical Univ...

Doctors need to be well informed about differences in the presentation of certain diseases in tropical and temperate climates. In this article the characteristics of some gastrointestinal diseases, as they recur in sub-Saharan Africa, are briefly reviewed. Diseases of the stomach--including ulcertaion and cancer--are uncommon in Africa, although duodenal ulcer is common all over the tropics. In...

We describe a case of renal cell carcinoma in the right kidney together with an angiomyolipoma in the left kidney, encountered in an adolescent girl at Potchefstroom Provincial Hospital, North West Province, South Africa.

In recent years, scholars in the fields of cultural studies, American history, ethnic and Middle East area studies have approached questions race racism this geographic region with renewed critical vigor. Recent work deconstructing anti-Arab Islamophobia Americas Europe has put these patterns discrimination into intersectional conversation anti-Black anti-Indigenous racism. New historical effor...