The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
a cancer scare, which threatens to become as grave as the bse virus(mad cow disease) in the uk , is causing mayhem in many countries, particularly Europe. At the heart of the controversy are food products from Belgium that were contaminated with dioxins
faced with a daunting food shortage and famine in parts of the country, the North Korean government is encouraging people to raise rabbits as a source of food. The animals provide lots of fur and meat and grow fast on very little feed, the country's Rodong Shimmun newspaper has reported. …
According to a senior us- government researcher, a mysterious virus epidemic that killed more than 100 people and devastated Malaysia's us $400 million pork industry could flare up again if care is not taken. "The epidemic may happen again, but if you are alert, you can stop it early,' said …
to avoid a second bruising of its trade relations with the us, the European Union ( eu ) is considering three options after the World Trade Organisation ( wto ) ruled against its recent ban on hormonally-treated us beef products. The first time the eu had trade clashes with its …
At a recent session of the Provincial People's Congress at Guangdong province, China, a group of representatives submitted a bill proposing a ban on eating wild animals. Meat of wild animals is a traditional cuisine in China. Guangdong province has a reputation as a gourmet heaven for those who have …
A reliable and sensitive procedure is presented for the analysis of streptomycin (STP) in food of animal origin, like meat, milk and honey. The method is based on a separation by ion-pair liquid chromatography with ?-naphthoquinone-4-sulfonate (NQS) postderivatization and fluorescence detection. The clean-up of the extract is done by solid-phase …
The world's biggest exporter of rice now faces a serious threat: rodents. Peasants, struggling with the country's hard hit economy, are breeding Nutria coypu , or beaver rats, in a bid to make money selling their meat and fur. But ecologists fear that the get-rich-quick craze will eventually end in …
a wide ban on the sale of beef rib roasts, T-bone steaks and certain other on-the-bone cuts has been recommended by a European Union (eu) scientific committee because of the risk of the "mad cow' disease being transmitted. The committee has said that every country that has reported cases of …
A Supreme Court panel has said that there is enough cattle in Andhra Pradesh to enable the Al Kabeer meat export firm to work at full capacity. The panel was investigating on a public interest litigation filed by cow protection groups and environmentalists. Last year, the Andhra Pradesh High Court …
ABOUT 2.21 tonnes of beef which was imported to South Korea will be sent back to the US after a strain of bacterium was detected in the meat. Chang Soo Hyang, a spokesperson for Korea's ministry of Agriculture and fishery said that the listeria bacteria was detected in the beef …
In the first case of its kind, a US rancher has sued Oprah Winfrey, the popular talk show hostess, alleging that her broadcast of April 16, 1996 had cost him US $6.7 million in lost sales of beef. A recently passed law in 13 US states gives cattle-ranchers and farmers …
OTULA OWUOR NAIROBI the fear that deadly European products and wastes easily end up in Africa was again confirmed when Kenyan customs and health authorities impounded at least 3.2 tonnes of suspected British 'madcow beef' being dumped into the country. The importation of the beef suspected to carry a transmissible …
A health ministry official in Bangkok said recently that anthrax-hit Thailand will closely monitor a similar outbreak of the disease in Australia before banning the entry of beef and dairy imports from Down Under. However, most anthrax cases in Thailand were found in illegal slaughter houses where the people killed …
a watered down compromise could be a possible outcome of the ongoing clash between the European Union (eu) and us over fur trade. The issue in contention involves an international agreement on humane trapping standards which eu would like to enforce and which us resists. eu has twice delayed imposing …
" Four legs good! Two legs bad!" -Animal Farm FOR a certain section of society the world over, George Orwell's satirical statement is a maxim to live by and defend, by fair means or foul. When the Prince of Wales recently found a rat trap baited with razor blades and …
Political priorities in insurgency-prone Kashmir may well override the apparent vigour of the wildlife officialdom to protect the shahtoosh (Hymalayan goat-antelope). Senior bureaucrats of the union environment ministry (MEF) cite the large number of recent seizures of shahtoosh-derived products as proof of their drive to protect the endangered species. Shahtoosh …
India and China have signed a protocol in the first week of March in Beijing to cooperate in stopping the poaching of tigers, and curbing the smuggling and illegal use of tiger bones and other parts. The partly mythical values attached to tiger products, like its bones, claws, teeth and …
A simple, selective and sensitive high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method has been developed for the measurement of josamycin residues in four porcine tissues (i.e., muscle, liver, kidney and fat). The sample preparation consisted of a homogenization step in an acetonitrile
IN A victory for conservationists, South Korea has decided to ban domestic trade in tiger bones and rhino horns from 1995. Although a ban on their imports have been in force -- Siberian tiger bones since 1993 and rhino horns since 1984 -- the goods continue to be smuggled in. …
