Tradition, changing tastes driving demand for chicken demand in Zambia in post-Christmas and New Year spending
As demand and spending during the festive season flattens, small-scale poultry businesses in Zambia are still recording a surge in demand for chickens and eggs. The Christmas and New Year period has traditionally been a peak season for these businesses but last year’s demand and spending activities appear to be...
Thirsty Tanzanian commercial capital ravaged further by water acute shortages and soaring temperatures
The burden is compounded by soaring costs. According to Ntaula, the cost of a 1,000-litre water delivery has risen from Tsh20,000 (about $8.2) to Tsh30,000 (about $11.7 ) in just a few weeks, putting it increasingly out of reach for low-income households.
Nairobi Coffee Exchange weekly auction rakes in $11.6m in first week of business after Christmas
According to NCE records on the auction, the strength of prices signalled sustained international demand for Kenyan coffee. In the auction conducted at Wakulima House in Nairobi, Gititu Farmers’ Cooperative Society (FCS) of Kiambu earned the best price after selling a lot of 10 bags of grade AA at Ksh62,823 per bag.
Early marriages: ‘Husband’ of teenage ‘wife’ spirited from Kajiado to Kitale dodges police trap as girl is rescued
Police have launched a manhunt for the suspect, identified as Mark Wafula, who escaped arrest. His mother of and brother were apprehended for harbouring a minor and the multi-agency security teams from both Kitale and Kajiado counties are in pursuit of the suspect.
Military and police terrorise opposition as Uganda gropes toward Museveni coronation
Decades ago, Museveni criticised African leaders who overstayed their time in power. Years later, Ugandan lawmakers did the same thing for him when they jettisoned the last constitutional obstacle – age limits – for a possible life presidency.
Climate change: Kenya ranked fourth in Arica for mental health disorder, flood-prone regions most affected
Dr Boniface Chitayi, a consultant psychiatrist with the Ministry of Health and President of the Kenyan Psychiatrist Association says that events leading to loss of property, loved ones and forced migration, tend to cause higher rates of depression and anxiety.
After demanding and failing to extort bribes from Somali businessmen, Junet referred them to ‘the honest Luhyia Raila had sacked’ for help
The Kenyan-Somalis personally gave the former prime minister the cash, had a chat with him, took pictures and left us behind as can be seen in the photo provided. It’s here that Raila gave us the story of his brother Agola who died after he was released from police custody.
Archeological evidence obtained in Tanzania reveals early humans may have begun butchering elephants 1.8 million years ago
When elephants started disappearing from the Middle East some 400,000 years ago, it was a major crisis, and not just for the ancient elephants. Early humans across the region, including in what is now Israel, depended on elephants for their diet. Eventually, humans adapted, learning how to hunt smaller prey such as bison, deer and gazelles, until those, too, disappeared from the landscape or their numbers were too small to hunt.
Study findings by Israel scientists show even animals without brains like jellyfish sleep too
In animals with brains, such as mammals, sleep is crucial for things like storing memories and clearing metabolic waste from the brain. But it was unclear why sleep evolved in jellyfish, which belong to a group of brainless animals called cnidarians, in which neurons – arranged in a relatively simple network across the body – are also thought to have first evolved
