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Manufacturing vaccines in Africa

Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and partners review ecosystem Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has hosted lead partners of Partnerships for African Vaccine Manufacturing (PAVM) for review of vaccine manufacturing ecosystem in Africa The meeting, which took place from …

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Water hyacinth threatens Lake Victoria’s ecosystem

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | Water hyacinth, an invasive plant species is choking Lake Victoria and threatening the lake’s ecosystem and investments, including operations of ports, an official said on Sunday. The Lake Victoria Basin Water Board communications officer, Perpetua Masaga, said the spreading of the water hyacinth in …

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Gov’t asked to invoke land acquisition power to save Bugoma forest

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Desperate times call for desperate measures. With alarm and pressure from activists and now donors over plans to plant sugarcane in parts of Bugoma forest, Members of Parliament want government to invoke its land acquisition power to save the forest. Civil Society organizations have …

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Oil exploration: Restoration of park ecosystems incomplete

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The restoration of Murchison Falls National Park ecosystem where oil wells were dug during the exploration of the Albertine Graben remains incomplete.  Total E&P, the company in charge of the process says that there are still some remedial work to undertake in some of …

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