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July 2010: Public and private officials gathered in Cotonou, Benin in late June for a table top exercise designed "to collaborate in the assessment and development of national and regional disaster response plans," should a pandemic hit African countries, an
Africom press release read. Africom, or the
United States African Command is "responsible to the Secretary of Defense for U.S. military relations with 53 African countries." Officials from Africom and other African nations were hosted by the Armed Forces of Benin and supported by the
Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Assistance Medicine (CDHAM).
July 2010: Solar Energy company Envision Solar's CEO Robert Noble, told
Greentech Media his vision for a line of pre-fab buildings built in places where the infrastructure and services are lacking. Noble said his
Life Village project would help that goal. "Just as mobile phones have leapfrogged land line phones in developing nations, this model can leapfrog centralized power production."
July 2010: Over the last three years, the
Guardian and Observer has been working with the
African Medical and Research Foundation and its sister organization
Farm Africa through a program called
Katine, named after a rural sub-county in northeast Uganda. The £2.5 million project was launched by Guardian Editor Alan Rusbridger and is jointly funded through donations from Guardian readers and
Barclays' community outreach and investment arm.
July 2010: As
NPR has reported, a high-pressure system which settled over the East Coast over the week has brought triple-digit temperatures to the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states testing the region's
electrical grid resiliency. The heat wave has prompted local government officials to take responsive measures to help keep power and water usage down while making sure sensitive groups like the very young and very old, stay cool.
July 2010: The Department of Homeland Security
has announced the first phase of a national program called "See Something Say Something" in a partnership with
Amtrak through the nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting initiative. DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said in the press release, "Implementing a national suspicious activity reporting partnership with Amtrak and expanding the 'See Something Say Something' campaign strengthens our ability to guard against terrorism and crime."
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