[1] Southern Africa is a predominantly semiarid region with a high degree of interannual rainfall variability. Although much of the recent climate research has focused on the causes of drought events, the region has also experienced extremes of above average rainfall, the most recent examples being the major flooding episodes that devastated Mozambique during 2000 and 2001. This paper investiga...

A migratory divide usually signals the presence of a geographical region over which other traits, such as morphology and genotypes, also undergo rapid change. A migratory divide has been hypothesized in central southern Africa for the abundant migratory weaver, the red-billed quelea Quelea quelea. The positioning of the divide in the region is based on the patterns of rainfall in the region tha...

The inclusion of genetically modified maize in food aid shipments to Southern Africa during the 2002 food crisis rekindled debates over agricultural biotechnology. As the region edged ever closer to famine – putting the lives to some 14 million Africans at risk – corporate pundits, government officials and biotech s critics debated the health and environmental dangers posed by the new technolog...

The relative contributions of the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean sea surface temperatures (SSTs) to the rainfall variability over eastern, central, and southern Africa during austral spring-summer are examined. The variability of African rainfall is statistically related to both oceans, but the variability in the two oceans is also related. To separate the effects of the Indian and Pacific Ocea...

As the focus on the origin of modern man appears to be moving from eastern to southern Africa, it is recognised that indigenous populations in southern Africa may be the most genetically diverse on the planet and hence a valuable resource for human genetic diversity studies. In order to build regional capacity for the generation, analysis and application of genomic data, the Southern African Hu...

of issues from an Annotated Bibliography on Equity in Health in Southern Africa (see www.equinet.org.zw). Compiled by Training and Research Support Centre, Zimbabwe with NIDR Botswana, Medical School Zimbabwe, Centre for Health Policy, South Africa, Health Economics Unit, University of Cape Town, South Africa, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Blair Research Lab, Zimbabwe. Hara...

Pyrethroid resistance in malaria vector, An. funestus is increasingly reported across Africa, threatening the sustainability of pyrethroid-based control interventions, including long lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs). Managing this problem requires understanding of the molecular basis of the resistance from different regions of the continent, to establish whether it is being driven by a single ...

Geographic Distribution Wesselsbron virus has been isolated from vertebrates or arthropod vectors in several countries in southern Africa including Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. There is serological evidence of its presence in other sub-Saharan countries in Africa including the island of Madagascar. In addition, this virus has been...

Geographic Distribution Wesselsbron virus has been isolated from vertebrates or arthropod vectors in several countries in southern Africa including Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. There is serological evidence of its presence in other sub-Saharan countries in Africa including the island of Madagascar. In addition, this virus has been...

The genus Herminella Spaeth from southern Africa is revised. It comprises four species: Herminella liliputana Spaeth and H. marshalli Spaeth are redescribed and two species are described as new-H. quadrimaculata from South Africa and H. flavocostata from Nambia and South Africa. A new related genus and species Hermosacantha madagascarica from Madagascar is described. Members of both genera belo...