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By Steven Lumley, technical manager, WearCheck   Continuing the dialogue around oil additives with condition monitoring specialist company, WearCheck, this time the focus turns to friction modifiers. What are they? Organic fatty acids and amines, high-molecular-weight organic phosphorus and phosphoric acid esters What do they do? Alter coefficient of friction …

The Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has appointed the country’s Ambassador to China, Khamis Mussa Omar, as the new Finance Minister following last month’s disputed election. Announcing the reshuffle in a televised address on 17 November 2025, she confirmed that Anthony Mavunde would remain as Mining Minister and Mahmoud Thabit …

By: Christiana Freitag Deep within the rainforests of the Central African Republic’s Dzanga-Sangha Protected Areas, conservation teams are fighting to safeguard one of the last strongholds of the African forest elephant. Here, in a clearing known as Dzanga Bai, forest elephants gather by the hundreds — one of the few …