Scientists have called for the international community take more interest in sleeping sickness, according to a report on the Science and Development Network website. They warn that drugs currently used to treat the disease are old and toxic, adding that sleeping sickness warrants a higher research priority because of its threat to health.
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/ 21 October 2005
The threat posed by biological weapons such as anthrax must be taken seriously by both African governments and African scientists, warned a meeting of international experts in Kampala in Uganda this month. Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park recently recovered from an outbreak of anthrax among wildlife there.
Africa lacks journalists able to report on science without distortion and misinformation, according to a Science and Development Network report. At a meeting on biotechnology and biosafety in Uganda, scientists said media ignorance is to blame for Africans lacking accurate information on new opportunities and benefits.
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/ 26 January 2005
The Luzira cocoa processing plant is unusual. In the only operation of its kind in the vast region, the workers at this site are harnessing the power of the sun to dry cocoa for export. Cocoa is a major earner of foreign exchange in Uganda, fetching  500 to  700 (R9 000 to R10 200) a tonne — three times what Uganda gets for coffee, its main export crop.