Archive for August, 2008
Madhvani Foundation releases 2008/2009 scholarships recipients list
159 scholarships worth 460 million shillings have been awarded to University students who applied for funding from the Madhvani Foundation. Making the announcement in a press statement today the Chairman of the Madhvani Foundation Mr. Sam Rutega said “this has been the most competitive year so far, the committee reviewed over 1,100 applications and interviewed […]
Over 100,000 Gorillas Found in Congo, Equatorial Africa
About 125,000 western lowland gorillas have been found living in a swamp in equatorial Africa.
“It’s pretty astonishing,” Hugo Rainey, one of the researchers who conducted the survey for the U.S.-based Wildlife Conservation Society, told CNN Tuesday.
The last census on the species, carried out during the 1980s, estimated that there were only 100,000 of the gorillas […]