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In recent months the media have drawn attention to the Cape Verde archipelago, with particular focus on the island of Fogo, the only island presently active and with an eruption that began on 23 November 2014, finally ceasing on 7 February 2015. The Monte Amarelo conical shield forms most of the 476 km 2 almost circular island of Fogo. After attaining a critical elevation of about 3500 m, the Monte Amarelo shield volcano was decapitated by a giant landslide that formed a caldera‐like...

In this paper, we assess to what extent large-scale debt relief, irrevocably granted to DRC in 2010 after a decade long bumpy process, has impacted on post-conflict reconstruction, governance and public service delivery in the country, more particularly in the education sector. In principle, this link potentially works through two main channels, one being increased overall resource availability, the other one through imposed conditionality to receive the debt relief. We show that resource...

This study examined sociocultural factors associated with abuse of mentally impaired persons (MIP) in Imo state, Nigeria. A cross-sectional survey of 1,147 persons aged 10 years and above who had at least one MIP in their household was conducted. Six in-depth interviews and 21 focus group discussion (FGD) sessions with 160 study participants comprising adult male and female members of the communities, respectively, were conducted. The study established that a multitude of cultural and social...

Coffee is the world’s most valuable tropical export crop. Recent studies predict severe climate change impacts on Coffea arabica (C. arabica) production. However, quantitative production figures are necessary to provide coffee stakeholders and policy makers with evidence to justify immediate action. Using data from the northern Tanzanian highlands, we demonstrate for the first time that increasing night time (Tmin) temperature is the most significant climatic variable responsible for...

Coffee is the world’s most valuable tropical export crop. Recent studies predict severe climate change impacts on Coffea arabica (C. arabica) production. However, quantitative production figures are necessary to provide coffee stakeholders and policy makers with evidence to justify immediate action. Using data from the northern Tanzanian highlands, we demonstrate for the first time that increasing night time (Tmin) temperature is the most significant climatic variable responsible for...

Coffee is the world’s most valuable tropical export crop. Recent studies predict severe climate change impacts on Coffea arabica (C. arabica) production. However, quantitative production figures are necessary to provide coffee stakeholders and policy makers with evidence to justify immediate action. Using data from the northern Tanzanian highlands, we demonstrate for the first time that increasing night time (Tmin) temperature is the most significant climatic variable responsible for...

Coffee is the world’s most valuable tropical export crop. Recent studies predict severe climate change impacts on Coffea arabica (C. arabica) production. However, quantitative production figures are necessary to provide coffee stakeholders and policy makers with evidence to justify immediate action. Using data from the northern Tanzanian highlands, we demonstrate for the first time that increasing night time (Tmin) temperature is the most significant climatic variable responsible for...

Current experiential learning approach in the Nigerian Technical and Vocational education (TVE) has been criticized for not meeting the desired challenges. The TVE departments give less emphasis to service learning due to lack of conceptual framework that can guide its implementation. Hence, this research aimed to develop a conceptual framework of service learning in TVE for Nigerian tertiary education. The research was designed to determine the aspects and their respective areas for the...

Background Addis Ababa University is one of the thirteen medical schools (in twelve countries) in Africa that are recipients of the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI). MEPI- Ethiopia is a consortia project that involved four Ethiopian medical schools (Addis Ababa, Defense Medical College, Haramaya , and Hawassa) as well as US partner Universities: Alabama, Emory, John Hopkins, California-San Diego, and Wisconsin. With a funding source  from  the  Office of the U.S. Global AIDS...

129 Abstract In 2003, Ethiopia declared it would pursue the goal of universal primary health coverage. In response to the critical shortage of human resources for healthcare, the government decided to rapidly increase the training of health workers to provide basic services, including health education, disease prevention, and family health services primarily to rural areas. This approach, which became known as the “flooding strategy,” was extended in 2005 to include medical doctors. Between...

Violence against children from school staff is widespread in various settings, but few interventions address this. We tested whether the Good School Toolkit-a complex behavioural intervention designed by Ugandan not-for-profit organisation Raising Voices-could reduce physical violence from school staff to Ugandan primary school children.We randomly selected 42 primary schools (clusters) from 151 schools in Luwero District, Uganda, with more than 40 primary 5 students and no existing...

Drought is Africa's most prevalent natural disaster and is becoming an increasingly common source of income shocks around the world.This paper presents new evidence from Africa that droughts are an important component of long run variation in health human capital.I use Census data to estimate the effects of early childhood exposure to drought on later-life disabilities among South Africans confined to homelands during apartheid.By exploiting almost forty years of quasi-random variation in...

In order to fight digestive parasitism in Tunisia, a national program of surveillance of non-permanent resident students in Tunisia has been found to detect these parasitosis in this target population.To determine the prevalence of intestinal parasitosis among non-permanent resident students in Tunisia, to identify the different parasitic species founded and to show the interest of this screening.During a period of 23 years (1990-2012), 7386 parasitological examinations of stools has been...

The present study aimed at assessing the level of instruction delivery in distance education in Nigeria.Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study.A total of 320 distance learners were randomly drawn from five National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) centres.The study focused on the sufficiency of learning media and the extent of preparedness of distance institutions in the adoption of internet-based system in instruction delivery process.Mean and standard deviation was...