Ali Hassan Mwinyi, Who Led Tanzania for a Decade, Dies at 98

Ali Hassan Mwinyi, Who Led Tanzania for a Decade, Dies at 98

(Bloomberg) — Ali Hassan Mwinyi, who during two terms as Tanzania’s president oversaw the introduction of a multiparty democracy and the liberalization of the economy, has died. He was 98. Mwinyi died from lung cancer in Tanzania’s commercial hub, Dar es Salaam, where he had been hospitalized for several weeks, President Samia Suluhu Hassan announced …

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Science Notebook | Malaria vaccine trials confirm high efficacy, Russia and India sign a new protocol for Kudankulam plant nuclear reactors, and the alarming news that the earth may have already crossed the 1.5°C warming level

Science Notebook | Malaria vaccine trials confirm high efficacy, Russia and India sign a new protocol for Kudankulam plant nuclear reactors, and the alarming news that the earth may have already crossed the 1.5°C warming level

MALARIA is the largest cause of death in young African children, and the disease claims over 6,00,000 lives globally each year. Now, results are out of the phase 3 trial data of the R21/Matrix-M™ malaria vaccine developed by Oxford University and Serum Institute of India. The double-blinded, randomised trials, conducted among 4,800 children in the …

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