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A republic in central Africa lying between GABON and DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO and south of Cameroon. Its capital is Brazzaville.
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Dear gents,
Please kindly assist on the following questions.
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Currently, I am conducting my Ph.D. thesis and am looking for data to support my research on the following questions.
1. How to identify Chinese companies that are currently operating in the below mentioned countries? OR where can I find a list of Chinese companies that are currently operating in the below-mentioned countries?
2. Where /How can I find their CSR report from the last five years?
Countries:
1. 🇪🇹 (Ethiopia)
2. Congo DRC)
3. 🇩🇿(Algeria)
4. 🇰🇪(Kenya)
5.🇪🇬(Egypt)
6. 🇦🇴(Angola)
7. 🇿🇦(South Africa)
8. 🇧🇼(Botswana)
9. 🇳🇦(Namibia)
10. 🇲🇦(Morocco)
11.🇹🇳 (Tunisia)
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You Ouyang Highly appreciated for your attention!
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Dear gents,
Please kindly assist on the following questions.
Currently, I am conducting my Ph.D. thesis and am looking for data to support my research on the following questions.
1. How to identify Chinese companies that are currently operating in the below mentioned countries? OR where can I find a list of Chinese companies that are currently operating in the below-mentioned countries?
2. Where /How can I find their CSR report from the last five years?
Countries:
1. 🇪🇹 (Ethiopia)
2. Congo DRC)
3. 🇩🇿(Algeria)
4. 🇰🇪(Kenya)
5.🇪🇬(Egypt)
6. 🇦🇴(Angola)
7. 🇿🇦(South Africa)
8. 🇧🇼(Botswana)
9. 🇳🇦(Namibia)
10. 🇲🇦(Morocco)
11.🇹🇳 (Tunisia)
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Thank you for your attention Zainal Arifin
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This question came back to us at each stage of the data collection in the field, within the framework of the SecTenSusPeace project: SECURING TENURE, SUSTAINABLE PEACE? The challenges of localizing land-registration in conflict-affected Burundi and eastern DR Congo. SecTenSusPeace is one of twelve transnational research projects that tackle a wide range of complex challenges on transformations to sustainability and that integrate knowledge and capabilities from around the world, funded by the Transformations to Sustainability (T2S) research programme.
Indeed, in conflict-affected settings, land tenure security of smallholders is seen as essential to prevent local land disputes and sustain peace, enable recovery of rural livelihoods, and advance ecologically and socially sustainable agricultural production. To enhance tenure security –which is often severely compromised during conflict– interveners tend to turn to land registration and other forms of formally acknowledging claims to land. However, conventional state-led approaches relying on centrally-organised, individual titling often fail to deal with very complex local land struggles. Yet, the alternative of recognizing customary land governance is also problematic. Contrary to expectations, customary arrangements may also fail to find locally embedded, acceptable solutions.
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Dear Patient M. Polepole,
Yes, this is an important question. Socio-economic, systemic, normative stabilisation taking place under conditions of high standards of democratisation, gender equality, respect for human, ethical, property rights, tolerance and respect is the basis for effective implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and effective implementation of the plan for pro-environmental and pro-climate transformation of the economy.
Best wishes,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
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Spread of MONKEY POX is due to mutational etiology? Monkeypox was first discovered in 1958 when two outbreaks of a pox-like disease occurred in colonies of monkeys kept for research, hence the name ‘monkeypox.’ The first human case of monkeypox was recorded in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of Congo during a period of intensified effort to eliminate smallpox. Since then monkeypox has been reported in humans in other central and western African countries,
then why its being now spreading all over ?
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Researchers are racing to find the origin of the monkeypox outbreaks that have now been linked to some 600 confirmed or suspected cases worldwide. They are also investigating whether the virus is spreading differently compared with previous outbreaks, whether it has accrued unusual genetic changes and how to contain it. One obstacle is that the monkeypox genome is enormous relative to those of many other viruses — more than six times larger than that of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, for example — making it harder to analyse...
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For our manual on Romance languages in Africa (RoLA) at the University of Passau (Germany), we are looking for an expert on the variety of French spoken in Congo-Brazzaville who could contribute a chapter to our manual (in English). For more information, see the attached document and the project homepage (https://www.phil.uni-passau.de/en/romance-languages/research/rola/). Recommendations are highly appreciated!
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I would suggest Jean-Alexis Mfoutou. I have tried Google, but could not find an email address or his current occupation.
He used to be a member of the "Laboratoire Dynamique du langage in situ", where his former patron de thèse Foued Laroussi might be able to bring you in contact with him. See https://dylis.univ-rouen.fr/membres-permanents
You can also try his postal address at Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville:
And the website of his publisher L'Harmand is offering a link for contacting Mfoutou directly, but I am not sure whether this is only an automatised feature or a valid link:
Good luck with your search!
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I read about CORDEX regional projections but I can't access the data files. Can someone suggest others regional climate models suitable for this area or provide a help on how to access the climate data for CORDEX. Thank you very much!
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Please, Chenghai Wang is your response a follow-up of Collins Kwame Oduro response or WRF provides another solution to my puzzle? If not, what is WRF and does this model provides resolution lower than 30km, my data has a resolution of less than 5km and want to perform future projections for the Congo Basin region. Thank you very much.
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sub Saharan Africa countries such as DR Congo, Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania are endowed with natural mineral resources. Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania are three leading countries in gold production in the continent, and therefore one would expect a significant economic development that would pull many people out of poverty cocoon. Nonetheless, majority of people in these countries are experiencing poverty. The key questions are:-
How can these countries dig out of poverty?
How can a resource curse paradox be addressed?
Are there lessons to be learned in some other mineral rich countries in sub Saharan Africa?
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First of all, stop taking loans from the developed countries. It keeps us in a continuous loop of debt.
Second, concentrate on the manufacture of secondary products and not just the extraction of raw materials from nature.
Also, Do not allow developed countries place prices on the materials you have produced and extracted. Set your own prices.
Diversify production and increase advertisement of products beyond the borders of your country.
Train the human resource to take better care of the environment and strive to improve the country not just for them but for the future generations.
Expand development to rural areas and concentrate more on protecting the natural environment while building better infrastructure.
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I’m looking for a research topic about reasons of Belgium‘s colonisation on Congo being left unaddressed during the League Against Imperialism’s debates from the League’s earliest establishment in 1927 until 1936?
majority of world nations (colonisers and the oppressed) gathered to discuss solutions to end colonisation, but Congo wasn’t discussed about during these debates
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Hello Michal Bron Jr! Thank you very much for your reply. Indeed, the first point is strongly agreed upon by majority of scholars, and supported by archives.
My main interest, however, is for the second point, which remains either ignored or ambiguous "on purpose" (as many scholars claim). To the best of my knowledge, there are little to no authentic archives that discuss the Congolese people's situation during the League Against Imperialism. Various academic literatures, however, did show strong effort to re-open the Congo case again.
To me, the second point should've been a powerful discussion among the League's delegates on a colonial and humanitarian scale, but it was never included, unfortunately. Pretty much all what remains is either witness accounts or theoretical interpretations by later scholars.
Thanks again for your help
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Is there any bathymetry data available on Congo River (especially downstream of Brazzaville) for research purpose?
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Valuable discussion...
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I’m a specialist of vertebrate tracks. During a long stay at Kinshasa, I discovered a number of tracks of early mammals, on slabs of purple sandstone. The tracks are of bad quality; however, they are interesting: they would be the first vertebrate tracks in Congo, and they are very similar to Brasilichnium elusivum and similar tracks, from Botucatu Formation and Caiuá Group, LK, in Brazil. Those sandstones are very common at Kinshasa, also on the sidewalks. They came from natural outcrops and quarries inside W outskirts of the town of Kinshasa, on the banks of Congo river, in the quarters of Kinsuka, Mbudi, Pompage. I could not find in situ or in internet any detailed Geological map of the Phanerozoic of Congo and of Kinshasa. To publish these tracks, I need the name and if possible the dating of this formation. Can any colleague help me? Thank you. Giuseppe Leonardi
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Dear Dr. Leonardi,
even if you could only provide us with a limited insight into the surface phenonmena of these sandstones I would discard the idea of being biogenic in origin and I would rather attribute this kind of sandstone structures to what might be called sensu lato as parting (lineation). It is not uncommon at outcrop and when used as glading it shows this man-made way of exfoliation. You might find these structures in some otherwise monotonous arenaceous series such as those created by turbidite currents.
With kind regards
H.G.Dill
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Hi all:
I am currently doing a s.aureus biofilm project. There are 6 samples are ica-negative by qPCR, but biofilm-positive through crystal violet assay. So i am thinking if the biofilm is formed by other ways, maybe through adhesion protein. 
In order to verify my hypothesis, i tried using congo red to confirm the biofilm formation. 2 samples are congo red negative but 4 are positive. As congo red only staining the polysaccharide (which is through ica pathway), it can be inferred these two samples, which are congo red negative, are forming biofilm  by protein (no ica pathway) or they are actually false-positive by crystal violet assay.
However, these 4 samples which are congo red-positive, i cant really understand. Since that they are ica-negative, they shouldnt produce polysaccaride, then how could they been stained by congo red?
Mant thanks
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Dear Douyang, From what you have said it appears that your strain of Staphylococcus aureus is capable of forming a quantifiable biofilm even when it is ice-negative. This should not be surprising at all, as it is now clear that many bacteria are able to form biofilms using a number of different components and regulatory pathways. If you look back at some of the early Pseudomonas aeruginosa papers, it is clear that they still grow on surfaces when key genes EPS, attachment or motility are knocked out, though never as well as the wild-type.
Your crystal violet assay looks robust too, though you need to show that these strains are significantly less than the wild-type and significantly more than the negative control (e.g. by post hoc Turkey-Kramer HSD). 
Congo red is known to bind a range of polysaccharides, and it also binds a range of curly or fibres, so in this assay, Congo red is indicating the presence of another compound and not the ica adhesin that should not be expressed in these strains.
If your samples are clinical or environmental isolates (rather than mutants of a wild-type reference strain) then the explanation is clear : some of these are expressing other biofilm components not normally produced by your wild-type reference.
Regards, Andrew