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The Karoo Basin in South Africa contains the world’s best exposed sub-volcanic part of a Large Igneous ProvinceLarge Igneous Province . Dolerite sills and dikes crop out across the 630,000 km2 large basin, from base to top of the stratigraphy. We present data from a compilation of 32 boreholes drilled since the 1960’s, showing that the sillSill cumulative volume percentage in the stratigraphy for individual boreholes varies from 0 to 54 %. Borehole depth is the key factor determining the...

During its prosperous phase, Islam spread to North Africa, where a total Islamization and Arabization took place, and the coastal areas of East Africa, where a new synthesis of the Perso-Arabic and Bantu languages and cultures emerged. East Africa has considerably higher rate of enrolment in primary and secondary education, and therefore Qur’ānic schools have tended to be relegated to complementary nonformal education or preschool institutions. In the former case, a deterioration has...

Taking the salient case of an Italian Foundation that promoted a Pan-African university alliance for entrepreneurship education, we conducted a field study based on interviews and observation for a period of seven years.The aim was to understand how to overcome challenges that arise when fostering entrepreneurship education programs (EEP) by orchestrating an inter-organizational network in Africa.Our study revealed that proximity and the presence on the field play a strategic and crucial...

While Africa as a continent has experienced steady economic growth over the last decade, quality of life issues still plague much of the continent.The complexity of these problems requires intellectual capabilities to develop workable and sustainable solutions.Thus, facilitating doctoral education in less developed countries (LDCs) is an important and worthwhile undertaking.This paper tells the tale of how a simple case of serendipitous opportunity to facilitate a doctoral research seminar...

Introduction: Road traffic exposes bus drivers to the detrimental effects of air pollutants on respiratory health.This study determined the frequency of chronic respiratory illnesses and its related factors among bus drivers in Dakar, Senegal.Methods: This study had a cross-sectional design conducted in a total of 178 bus drivers in Dakar, Senegal.A questionnaire was used to inquire about socio-economic characteristics, occupational factors and respiratory symptoms of bus drivers.Lung...

Introduction: Intestinal parasitic infection (IPI) remains major public health problem in worldwide, being most prevalent in developing countries. Mass drug administration with Mebendazole is an effective strategy for the control of these diseases in pre-school and schoolchildren. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections and established associated risk factors among pre-school and schoolchildren living in rural area in Senegal. Materials and...

Introduction: Acute post-infectious glomerulonephritis (APIGN) can be serious due to its complications that still occur in our countries.In this work, we aimed to study the epidemiological, clinical, biological and evolutionary aspects of APIGN.Patients and methods: We conducted a retrospective, descriptive study from January 1 st , 2015 to December 31 st , 2017 in the pediatric ward of the Gabriel Touré Teaching Hospital in Bamako.All children hospitalized for APIGN were included.Results:...

Since its insertion in 1998, Kigali Institute of Education, currently known as College of Education under the University of Rwanda, henceforth ‘The University of Rwanda-College of Education (UR-CE)’, it`s first mission has been training and producing teachers for secondary schools in Rwanda. To a certain extent, bearing in mind that Rwanda Education Board (REB), an institution in charge of education in Rwanda from kindergarten to secondary education, in designing its programmes, UR-CE...

Soil-transmitted helminths (STH) infection remains a public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa with children being most vulnerable. STH infection may result in impairment, permanent disability or death. Annual mass deworming has been implemented in the Tiko Health District (THD), however, no study has assessed the current prevalence of STH infection. This study aimed to determine the prevalence, intensity of STH infections and associated risk factors among school children.Two months after...

The current problems in the world are variation/declining of rainfall, shortage of feed and water, incidence of disease and rising of temperature, these are come about because of climate change. So, the objective of this review is to appraisal the impact of climate change on smallholder dairy production and coping mechanism in sub-Saharan Africa. Climate change is a long-term and significant change in the expected patterns of a specific region’s average weather for an appropriately...

Current approaches for assessing the quality of teaching and learning in higher education focus solely on compliance and accountability, and use quantitative measures that serve as indicators of institutional effectiveness and efficiency, yet whether such approaches have linked to instructional activities or students learning in universities are not clearly known. Moreover, while quality is a complex and multifaceted construct, its measurement using qualitative evidence of actual teaching...

Current approaches for assessing the quality of teaching and learning in higher education focus solely on compliance and accountability, and use quantitative measures that serve as indicators of institutional effectiveness and efficiency, yet whether such approaches have linked to instructional activities or students learning in universities are not clearly known. Moreover, while quality is a complex and multifaceted construct, its measurement using qualitative evidence of actual teaching...

Background: In spite of, extensive efforts and a number of blood donation programs being organized worldwide, availability of adequate and safe blood still remains short to meet the increased demand in developing countries including Ethiopian. The major challenge was recruitment of voluntary, non-remunerated blood donors. Literatures identified that many factors are responsible such as, lack of knowledge, negative attitudes, and inconvenience for facilities. Increase level of knowledge and...

Civics and Ethical Education was expected to produce responsible citizens and regulate human conduct in a good manner. As a result, it has been apparently introduced to the Ethiopian schools at different grade levels and tertiary level as well. However, challenges to Civics and Ethical Education in Ethiopian particularly, in Secondary School have not been well studied. This article, therefore, employed qualitative research approach to assess the challenges to Civics and Ethical Education in...

Despite the past investments and continued interests in public infrastructure like large irrigation dams, there has been limited evidence for their effects on household level consumptions and agricultural production, and how these effects are spatially distributed, depending on the locations of households in relations to the dams. Using a panel household survey, information of the locations of large irrigation dams, drainage basins, and drought index, we assess how large irrigation dams...