News Updates MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST COMMENTS Hodeidah, a major port city in Yemen, will undergo an expansion and modernization program that is estimated to cost $700 million. According to reports in the Yemeni press, this port handles 70 percent of the country's imports, but has not seen any major port development in the past 25 years. With Yemen importing almost all of its grain and oilmeal requirements, any improvement in the port will certainly facilitate grain trade to the country.The Iranian government has announced that it will increase its purchase price of wheat from farmers by about 30 percent per MT and will supply 300,000 MT of wheat seed for the next planting season. Iran would very much like to increase the local p...
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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