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A PhD journey from Sabratah to Stellenbosch

By Alec Basson From Sabratah in western Libya to Stellenbosch in the Boland - this is the journey that Dr Eman Teer had to travel to complete her doctorate in Physiological Sciences at Stellenbosch University (SU). Having done research on the how inflammation and blood clotting increase the prevalence of heart disease among HIV-positive patients, she obtained her degree on Monday at SU’s first graduation ceremony of December 2017. She […]

today5 December 2017

International News

Hosni Mubarak walks free after six years in jail

Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak left a military hospital on Friday where he had spent much of his six-year detention, his lawyer said. Mubarak had been cleared for release earlier this month after a top court finally acquitted him of involvement in protester deaths during the 2011 revolt that ousted him. "Yes," his lawyer Farid al-Deeb told AFP news agency when asked if Mubarak had left the hospital on Friday. […]

today24 March 2017

Opinions

Aleppo, a victim of inhumanity whether east or the west

OPINION by Shafiq Morton IN every way, 2016 has been a challenging year to be a journalist. Shrinking print space, incessant cyber-attacks, the dumbing down of hard news, local mamparas, diminishing employment opportunities and increasing danger in doing one’s job, have been the background to an eventful and action-packed 12 months. In 41 years I have never ended a year on such a note of global fretfulness, unpredictability and street […]

today20 December 2016

International News

‘Arab Spring’ cost Middle East economies $600bn

The so-called Arab Spring of 2011 has cost the region's economies an estimated $614bn of growth because of governmental changes, continuing conflict and falling oil prices, according to a United Nations agency. The figure from the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), equivalent to 6 percent of GDP up to the end of last year, is based on growth projections made before the revolutions started. Published on […]

today11 November 2016

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