Africa

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Geotimes July 2004 Jay Chapman	Illegal Uranium Mining in Congo U.N. officials expressed fears that undocumented uranium ore leaving the mine in the southeastern province of Katanga could make its way into the hands of terrorists.
Outside June 2004 Greg Child	Technicolor Darkness In the red-rock high ground of South Africa, climbing still comes down to black and white. The author goes on belay to explore the crags, boulder gardens, and post-Apartheid complications of the world's next climbing mecca.
T.H.E. Journal May 2004 Annamaria DiGiorgio	Learning Centers Provide Global Access to Effective Teaching Tools With the launch of six new learning centers, the rural residents of Namibia will now have access to television and satellite technology that will provide culturally appropriate educational video programming and training in the use of video as an effective teaching tool.
D-Lib April 2004 Paiki Muswazi	Continuing Education, Libraries and the Internet (CELI) Project Narrowing the Skills Gap in Southern African University Libraries
Outside March 2004	The Hard Way: A 75-Dollar Bicycle Revolutionizes In 2002, Paul Steely White, ITDP's Africa regional director, spearheaded a plan to create an affordable bicycle that would combine the dependability of European bikes with the versatility of mountain bikes.
Geotimes February 2004	Earthquake rocks Morocco At 2:27 a.m. local time today, a magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck the northern coast of Morocco. Preliminary reports suggest at least 300 people have died and many more have been injured, according to the Associated Press.
Smithsonian March 2004 John F. Ross	Monkey in the Middle Blamed for destroying one of North Africa's most important forests, Morocco's Barbary macaques struggle to survive.
Science News December 13, 2003 Janet Raloff	When Drought Reigns, Diets Can Turn Poisonous For many people in drought-stricken Africa, food and water will be in perilously short supply this season. So short, in fact, that some people in Ethiopia are already making the grass pea -- a cousin of the sweet pea -- a dietary staple. But to eat the grass pea is to flirt with possible paralysis.
T.H.E. Journal August 2003	Mobile Science Center Brings High-Tech Experimentation to Remote Parts of South Africa Will students in schools that don't have access to technology have the same chances of competing successfully in the global economy? Edusoft decided the best way to provide students with these experiences would be to build a low-cost mobile classroom that could be transported to rural schools countrywide.
Knowledge@Wharton June 18, 2003	VillageReach Measures Its Success in Smiles Blaise Judja-Sato, who was born in Cameroon, founded VillageReach, a non-profit, and assembled a team of experts with experience in public health and development fields who were enthusiastic about attempting a fresh approach to tackling problems that plague so many developing countries.
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