Previously ‘orphaned’ by scientists as ‘primitive’ sorghum is rebounding in western Kenya as a cash crop
Prof Hai Chun Jing from the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, who is leading the Chinese partnership in technology development and transfer, put emphasis on the importance of selecting and breeding high-yielding, drought-resistant varieties that can thrive in the diverse agro-ecological zones of Africa.
Racist undertones: Why Trump, world’s richest man Elon Musk oppose South Africa’s new land law
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Councillor Malefetsane Mokoena meets with a family residing on Meyerskop farm, owned by a wealthy white farmer, with whom they are quarrelling over grazing rights in Free State province, South Africa, on February 6, 2025. Credit: Reuters
Trump’s foreign funding freeze exposes how USAID bribed leading media houses to censor news, peddle smear campaigns
Ji said this is concerning given that BBC has expanded its influence through projects like the Trusted News Initiative (TNI), a self-described “industry partnership” that worked with Big Tech forms to identify “misinformation” and “disinformation” on their platforms.
Doctor prescribes rigid dietary regimen for rural folk in Kenya to keep pancreatic cancer at bay
Dr Philip Blasto says some of the high risk factors include smoking, obesity, having a family history of diabetes adding that some people inherit the gene from their parents that raise their risk of pancreatic cancer.
Keeping healthy with the dead: How Zimbabweans try to outpace death with exercise at club in a cemetery
At dawn, 65-year-old Nelly Mutandwa swapped her pyjamas for leggings, a T-shirt and sneakers. She grabbed a bottle of water before heading to an unconventional workout spot: a cemetery in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare. Surrounded by rows of graves, she joined other members of the Commandos Fitness Club in an hour-long...
Kenya builds 23,000 cubic litre per hour borehole to serve 500 households, 10,000 heads of cattle in semi-arid north
Following the completion of the project, the regional and national government say they will follow the project with reinstating the Ksh4.6 billion ($35.604 million) hunger safety net programme (HSNP) that had been paused in eight arid and semi-arid Lands (ASALs) counties for lack of funding four months ago.
Missing link: While Uganda places premium on mass production in education, it’s surrendered critical thinking, critical analysis and critique
Virtually all our problems do not require just political interventions, which dominate public discourse in Uganda, or chains of critical analysis of and critiques on them, which we are preoccupied with. They require critical thinking.
Snakes wreak havoc in Kitui County as doctors appeal for help against snakebite menace in Kenya
The Kitui County NTDs report calls for sustained effort to create awareness and combat the NTDs, which affect millions of Kenyans and especially in impoverished communities.
Artificial beauty: Kenya clamps down on cosmetic and plastic surgery clinics after death
Principal Secretary Mary Muthoni explained that a total of 26 aesthetic clinics were assessed and 20 (77 per cent) were found to be compliant with licensing and operational standards. Three facilities had applied for registration and were awaiting approval while another three were operating illegally.
“A total of 102 beauty spas were inspected, with seven found to be offering
Kenyan media women envisage digitally resilient community of African women who champion safe feminist internet
Common forms of technology facilitated-GBV attacks include; trolling, doxing, body shaming, abusive comments, revenge porn, hacking, impersonation, sextortion, deepfake, digital domestic abuse and online recruitment for exploitation that are motivated by the sexual or gender identity of the target or by underlying gender norms.
