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Presidential award for Ugandan research stirs up debate
A presidential award for research into using the soapberry plant to kill mosquitoes has stirred up debate over funding ...29/06/11
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Science and politics clash over Ugandan forest
Scientists and politicians are fighting over plans to give away part of a natural forest in Uganda to a ...04/04/07
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Wake up to sleeping sickness issue, say scientists
Scientists in Uganda have called for the international community to take more interest in sleeping sickness and help combat ...09/03/07
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Uganda gets GM testing tools
New US$50,000 equipment will allow scientists in Uganda and possibly nearby countries to test for genetically modified organisms in ...14/12/06
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Network set to boost plant breeding technique
A network of public and private research centres will boost the adoption of plant tissue culture in ten East ...05/12/06
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Uganda ‘needs biotech law’ to save banana sector
A Ugandan agriculture official says that failing to adopt a biotech law could cost his country billions of dollars.11/10/06
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Mixed response to Uganda’s biotech progress
Uganda's efforts to establish national biosafety measures drew blame and praise in equal measure at a meeting last week.29/09/06
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US$30m ‘millennium science initiative’ for Uganda
Uganda will become the latest country to participate in the international Millennium Science Initiative, thanks to a major loan ...01/06/06
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Climate change hits Africa’s Mountains of the Moon
Glaciers in a mountain range straddling the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda are disappearing due to global warming, ...18/05/06
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Iranian faces trial in Uganda over AIDS ‘cure’
A Uganda-based Iranian will stand trial next month for selling, without official approval, what he claims is a cure ...15/05/06
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Uganda prepares for bird flu
SciDev.Net journalists report on efforts to face bird flu in Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.28/10/05
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African science policy ‘must address bioterror threat’
Policies for developing African science must consider the continent's lack of capacity to face the threat of bioterrorism, say ...13/10/05