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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

WHO | Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – update

The new case is a 56 year-old female from Hafr Al- Batin city, North-eastern region. She is a health care worker with contact of a previously reported laboratory confirmed MERS-CoV case who subsequently recovered and was discharged.</p>

In addition, the two deaths in previously confirmed cases are a 53 year-old citizen from the Eastern Region and a two year-old male from Jeddah.

Globally, from September 2012 to date, WHO has been informed of a total of 80 laboratory-confirmed cases of infection with MERS-CoV, including 44 deaths.

via WHO | Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – update.

IRIN Africa | Countering Africa’s green revolution | Angola | Burkina Faso | Burundi | Benin | Botswana | DRC | Central African Republic | Congo | Cote d’Ivoire | Cameroon | Comoros | Cape Verde | Djibouti | Eritrea | Ethiopia | Gabon | Ghana | Global | Gambia | Guinea | Equatorial Guinea | Guinea-Bissau | Kenya | Liberia | Lesotho | Morocco | Madagascar | Mali | Mauritania | Mauritius | Malawi | Mozambique | Namibia | Niger | Nigeria | Rwanda | Seychelles | Sudan | Sierra Leone | Senegal | Somalia | South Sudan | Sao Tome and Principe | Swaziland | Chad | Togo | Tanzania | Uganda | Western Sahara | South Africa | Zambia | Zimbabwe | Environment | Food Security

The Makhathini Flats project, which started to grow cotton in 2002, ended after just five years. High loan repayments on the seed and poor climate meant that smallholders were unable to afford to grow the crop. “There is no reason to believe that the introduction of GM seeds would have different results in the rest of the continent,” Jones said. He accuses initiatives such as AGRA of spurring the push for greater use of genetically modified crops on the continent.

via IRIN Africa | Countering Africa’s green revolution | Angola | Burkina Faso | Burundi | Benin | Botswana | DRC | Central African Republic | Congo | Cote d'Ivoire | Cameroon | Comoros | Cape Verde | Djibouti | Eritrea | Ethiopia | Gabon | Ghana | Global | Gambia | Guinea | Equatorial Guinea | Guinea-Bissau | Kenya | Liberia | Lesotho | Morocco | Madagascar | Mali | Mauritania | Mauritius | Malawi | Mozambique | Namibia | Niger | Nigeria | Rwanda | Seychelles | Sudan | Sierra Leone | Senegal | Somalia | South Sudan | Sao Tome and Principe | Swaziland | Chad | Togo | Tanzania | Uganda | Western Sahara | South Africa | Zambia | Zimbabwe | Environment | Food Security.

Natural Fruit Fly Trap | Eat Drink Better

This is a simple, inexpensive fruit fly trap that will get those suckers our of your kitchen without harsh chemicals!

Have you been a little bit slack about taking out your kitchen compost lately? If you’re anything like me, emptying the compost bin is pretty low on the ol’ to do list, and chances are it sits on the counter for a bit longer than it ought to. In the summertime, that means one nasty side effect: fruit flies.

We had been dealing with fruit flies for over a week before I finally got fed up and decided to do something about it. The last straw was when I brought some food to a potluck, and when I opened the bag to pull out my container, a fruit fly zoomed out of it. GROSS!

I shared this tip on our Facebook page a couple of weeks ago, but it’s been so effective, I thought I’d share it here for you guys! Here’s how to make an effective, all-natural fruit fly trap:

via Natural Fruit Fly Trap | Eat Drink Better.

Egyptian Aak. Week 27 -New SCAF vs. Old Islamists

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Tennis: Pressure mounts on BBC over ‘sexist’ gaffe by presenter | News , International | THE DAILY STAR

“This is appalling. Tennis is one of the worst offenders in sport in terms of the focus on women athletes’ looks and the BBC needs to take action,” Sue Tibbals, chief executive of the Women’s Sports and Fitness Foundation, told Reuters.

“I thought Bartoli was an absolute inspiration, so spirited and gutsy, and she does not deserve these outrageous remarks. This is not a one-off event from this presenter.”

via Tennis: Pressure mounts on BBC over 'sexist' gaffe by presenter | News , International | THE DAILY STAR.

Rude, crude, off the air permanently!

Moscow desires Russian missile shield over the Baltic States – Estonian World

Despite the publicly-declared aspiration to cooperate with the US and NATO, including the area of anti-missile defence, Russia’s main goal remain unchanged; i. e., to avoid the deployment of NATO’s anti-aircraft and anti-missile elements on the territory bordering Russia. Russia suggests to NATO to divide Europe into sectors of anti-missile responsibility,” the report reads.

The report includes a map showing the Baltic States, Finland and large parts of Poland, Sweden and Norway as “a territory covered by Russia’s anti-missile elements.”

The explanation in Russian says that “the deployment of NATO’s anti-missile objects in this territory poses threats to our strategic nuclear capabilities.”

“If this proposal is implemented, the Baltic States and part of the Polish territory would fall under ‘Russia’s responsibility area’; i. e., NATO would have to hand over to this country part of its commitments to ensure security of its member countries, and the Alliance’s actions would be limited in the region. Currently, Russia is actively developing its anti-aircraft and anti-missile system, near the border with NATO. The system is already capable of detecting and destroying air targets several hundred kilometres from the Russian border, including the airspace of NATO member countries,” the document states.

via Moscow desires Russian missile shield over the Baltic States – Estonian World.