The sugarcane stemborer Eldana saccharina is an indigenous African moth found throughout much of subsaharan Africa. Previous research has revealed ecological differences among geographical populations, raising the possibility that E. saccharina may consist of different biotypes. As a first step towards evaluating this hypothesis, E. saccharina populations from across Africa were surveyed for mi...

Disakisperma Steud. is a genus of four predominantly perennial C4 (NAD-ME) species in the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Its species previously were treated in Eleusine, Eragrostis, Coelachyrum, Cypholepis, Leptochloa, or Diplachne by nearly all authors.It includes the widespread North and South American amphitropical disjunct Disakisperma dubium (type of the genus), Disakisperma eleusine from sou...

Antiretroviral (ARV) drugs have become the cornerstone of care and treatment for AIDS in North America, Brazil, and Europe. Twenty years into the epidemic, and more than 10 years after the introduction of ARV's, effective global treatment of AIDS, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa where the epidemic is most concentrated, is an extraordinary challenge. Guidelines and experience in anti-microbia...

INTRODUCTION The riverbream or perch, Acanthopagrus berda (family Sparidae), is widespread in the tropical Indo-Pacific region, occurring from South Africa to India, northern Australia and Japan (Smith & Heemstra 1986; Garratt 1993). In South Africa it is found along the east coast, where its range extends southwards to Port Elizabeth (33°58’S, 25°36’E). It is one of 22 species of fishes found ...

The southern African species of the water beetle genus Hydraena Kugelann, 1794, are revised. Twenty-eight new species are described, and redescriptions and new collection records are given for three previously described species, based on the examination and databasing of 11,534 specimens from 488 localities/events. Male genitalia are illustrated, and high resolution habitus images of the holoty...

This paper presents fully automatic approach for information extraction from digitized gray level images of Telecom Egypt diagrams. The information are feed into database system for later use by Telecom Egypt technicians staff. The first step is to separate between the graphic components and the text associated to them. The segmented texts are recognized by OCR system. The diagrams are segmente...

Rabies virus (RABV) is enzootic throughout Africa, with the domestic dog (Canis familiaris) being the principal vector. Dog rabies is estimated to cause 24,000 human deaths per year in Africa, however, this estimate is still considered to be conservative. Two sub-Saharan African RABV lineages have been detected in West Africa. Lineage 2 is present throughout West Africa, whereas Africa 1a domin...

Women empowerment could be the key for unlocking women’s productivity potential in Africa. Women’s contribution to the agricultural sector is also greatly influenced by their health status. This paper examines the impact of women’s empowerment on women’s health and the implications for African food and agricultural sector. It utilizes unique dataset from 2012 survey of 2,405 women in northern G...