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10Feb/16

Locust swarms

Maths link to future locust dispersal

February 10, 2016Science2019–20 locust infestation, Animal migration, Arthropods, BATH, Behavior, Bo, CHRISTIAN YATES, Company: ThomsonReuters, Country: Madagascar, Creatures, Drury convention, Ethology, Hexapoda, Insects, Insects as food, Insects in culture, Jim Drury, Locust, Madagascar, Mathematician, Pest, Swarm behaviour, United Kingdom, Zoologysmbale

Mathematicians say that by using their newly developed model of locust behaviour, it could be possible to create better dispersal methods to prevent the creatures causing devastation. Jim Drury reports.
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19Jan/16

U.N. food agency says 14 million face hunger in southern Africa

January 19, 2016EnvironmentArticles, Civil defense, Climatology, Disaster/Accident, Drought, East Africa, El Niño, Energy crops, Farhan Haq, Food and drink, Food security, GOKWE, Hunger, Hydrology, Limbic system, Madagascar, Maize, Malawi, Malnutrition, Motivation, Mozambique, Neuropsychology, New York, South Africa, southern Africa, World Food Programme, Zambia, Zimbabwesmbale

The World Food Programme (WFP) has raised concern about food security in southern Africa where an estimated 14 million people are facing hunger following prolonged dry spells that led to a poor harvest last year. The weather condition is said to have been worsened by El Nino, a pattern which typically brings drier conditions to Southern Africa and wetter ones to East Africa.

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01Aug/15

Volcano erupts on island of suspected MH370 wreckage

August 1, 2015EnvironmentDisaster/Accident, Environment, Fournaise, France, Geology, Igneous petrology, Indian Ocean, Madagascar, Malaysia, Malaysia Airlines, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, MALAYSIAN AIRLINE SYSTEM BERHAD, Petrology, Piton de la Fournaise, Piton de la Fournaise Volcano Observatory, Reunion, Shield volcanoes, Volcanism, Volcano, Volcanoes, Volcanologysmbale

(REUTERS) – A volcano erupted on the remote Indian Ocean island of Reunion, located east of Madagascar.

The island — officially a part of France — happens to be the site where beachcombers discovered debris from a plane wing, believed to have come from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370
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02Mar/15

Visa and Airtel Extend Mobile Payments to Seven African Countries

March 2, 2015Mobile3G, Africa, Airtel, Airtel Africa, Airtel Bangla, Airtel Bangladesh, Airtel India, Airtel Money Africa, Airtel Sri Lanka, Airtel Tanzania, Airtel-Vodafone, Asia, bank, Barcelona, Bharti Airtel, Bharti Airtel Limited, Bharti Enterprises, Burkina Faso, Business, Business/Finance, cellular telephone, Chad, Chidi Okpala, Companies, Congo, Economics, Economy of India, Gabon, Ghana, India, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mobile commerce, New Delhi, Niger, Nigeria, Payment, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Spain, Tanzania, Technology/Internet, Telecommunications, Travel visa, Uganda, Visa Inc., VisaNet, Vish Sowani, Vodafone, Zambiasmbale

BARCELONA, Spain–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) and Bharti Airtel, a leading telecommunications services provider with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa, today announced a partnership to bring innovative mobile payment services to seven markets in Africa including Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda, Seychelles and Tanzania.
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