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Dec
30

"CRISPR-Cas9 Therapies: Can They Revolutionise Sickle Cell Treatment in Africa?"

In recent years, gene therapies, particularly those utilizing the CRISPR gene-editing system, have emerged as a beacon of hope and offer unprecedented opportunities to combat inherited disorders and revolutionize treatment approaches.

7-year-old Keith Galiwango is a sickle cell patient.  In his hometown of Nsotoka in the central Ugandan district of Kayunga, as in many other resource-poor regions of Africa, access to healthcare, diagnosis and treatment for sickle cell disease is often limited. That status quo, in many ways, indicates that many young African sickle cell ...

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Dec
12

Is AI language modeling able to save endangered African languages?

Is AI language modeling able to save endangered African languages?

Edward Sseremba, 46, speaks Ruruuli, the native language of the Baruuli and Banyala peoples, who live in the central Ugandan districts of Nakasongola, Kayunga, and Masindi, in mid-western Uganda. Sseremba, a teacher, lives with his three children and wife in Kangulumira County in Kayunga.  Recent reports naming his language among 23 Ugand...

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Oct
13

Is integrating water, energy, and food systems critical to climate adaptation and sustainability?

On his farm in Bunashimolo parish, Bushiende sub-county, Mbale, eastern Uganda, 47-year-old Andrew Wangota uses small scale agrivoltaics technology—the combination of solar energy (raised photovoltaic (PV) solar panels) with agriculture. The technology, which is a critical component of the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus, has enabled Wangot...

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Dec
12

Kampala, a city teeming with philophobes

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Aug
24

Masaabachronicle TV- Trial Video

The Imbalu Black Mud swamp  Richard Wetaya reporting for Masaabachronicle TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WETbIfugD6k

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Apr
26

Ghana farmers optimistic about GMO crops, survey finds

Ghana farmers optimistic about GMO crops, survey finds - Alliance for Science Enter some description here... https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2022/04/ghana-farmers-optimistic-about-gmo-crops-survey-finds/

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Jan
11

Poetic Justice

Poetic Justice, with her lifted scale,  Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs, And solid pudding against empty praise.Alexander Pope 1688-1744 

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Nov
04

Podcast: Its the Climax: Trump or Biden, who will emerge victor of the 2020 US Presidential Election?

In this Podcast, I cast an eye on the most important day in the American electoral process, which dawned yesterday. As the day progresses, many global citizens, myself included, will be watching keenly as one of the most momentous Presidential elections in American history reaches a climax. The world is waiting to see how the scales will tip. Plug-...

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Aug
17

Uganda-pays-subsidies-to-improve-small-farm-productivity

https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2020/07/uganda-pays-subsidies-to-improve-small-farm-productivity/

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