News Updates EGYPT UPDATE The new government in Egypt has issued a formal invitation to the IMF to resume talks on the $3.2 billion loan. The finance minister made the announcement to the press shortly after all members of the president's cabinet had been sworn in. The loan is needed to avoid any budget funding shortfalls and to help with balance of payments schedules.Egypt's trade deficit is said to be running at $35 billion, with the country's exports dropping by 14 percent as its export business for fertilizer, clothing, fruit and dairy products shrank. Egypt's imports are up by close to 20 percent, with the major areas being petroleum products, steel and grains. As a result of the recent grain price increases, the import costs will mo...
Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve is located on the northeast coast of Unguja, 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the Town. The reserve is an important biodiversity spot in the coral rag zone. The forest reserve is rich both in faunal and floral species. The faunal species r...
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Fabiana is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, native to dry slopes in western South America.[1] They are evergreen shrubs or subshrubs,[1] with needle-like leaves and profuse tiny tubular flowers in summer. The common name is false heath because the leaves superficially resem...
An Ankylosaurus lumbers along the shore of what’s now eastern Montana. Walking low to the ground, the dino uses its flat, leaf-shaped teeth to tear at ferns lining the water. Suddenly, a shadow looms over the herbivore—a Tyrannosaurus rex is hungry. But Ankylosaurus won’t be a...
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