EAC principal secretaries meeting in Kisumu draws up strategy for Lake Victoria conservation

EAC principal secretaries meeting in Kisumu draws up strategy for Lake Victoria conservation

Lake Victoria Basin Commission (LVBC) Executive Secretary Masinde Bwire said pollution, unsustainable agriculture, land degradation, invasive weeds and illegal fishing have drastically affected the lake’s health and the well-being of those who depend on it.

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WHO promotes scientist being investigated in US for deceptions and fraud on origins of Covid

WHO promotes scientist being investigated in US for deceptions and fraud on origins of Covid

US was the biggest contributor to the WHO’s budget. US law requires one year’s notice and the payment of outstanding fees upon withdrawing from the WHO. That means the final full withdrawal will take effect in early 2026. Payment of those fees remains “outstanding,” Reuters reported.

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Success of Kenya’s livestock agency credited with creation of jobs in the country

Success of Kenya’s livestock agency credited with creation of jobs in the country

IFAD Country Director Mariatu Kamara said they were in a joint mission to do a midterm review of the project which was being implemented in 10 counties to know the progress and implementation challenges with a view to strengthening the programme.

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Chickens coming home to roost: Scientists and doctors behind Covid origins con face corruption invstigation, Fauci features as perpetrator

Chickens coming home to roost: Scientists and doctors behind Covid origins con face corruption invstigation, Fauci features as perpetrator

After the paper’s publication on March 17, 2020, Collins promoted the paper in the March 2020 edition of the NIH Director’s Blog. And on May 21, 2020, the NIH finalised a $1.88 million grant to Andersen and the Scripps Research Institute relating to pandemic preparedness in West Africa.

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Communities along Kenya’s largest rivers put on high alert hydropower dams overflow

Communities along Kenya’s largest rivers put on high alert hydropower dams overflow

KenGen Managing Director Engineer Peter Njenga reported that the alert was the second after the largest of the dams and the first in the cascade, Masinga, recorded overflow on April 30.

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Starved of time for love and weighed down by books, how PhD students enjoy snatches of romance

Starved of time for love and weighed down by books, how PhD students enjoy snatches of romance

Is lasting love more likely if you date only other scientists? How much should you talk about your research on a first date? Researchers lift the lid on their experiences of when science meets affairs of the heart. When Karen Arellano moved to Spain from Mexico in 2020 to start...

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Kenya’s saving and cooperatives movement hits $14 billion as it registers rapid growth

Kenya’s saving and cooperatives movement hits $14 billion as it registers rapid growth

Co-operative Alliance of Kenya Chair Macloud Malonza said the Sacco movement has registered tremendous growth and needed to advance to the next level. Therefore the movement is advocating for a new law that will allow cooperatives to get into the payment system and start offering other financial services like issuing bankers cheques.

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Lock up monkeys and snakes in Kakamega Forest or compensate us for losses of crops and life, farmers tell state

Lock up monkeys and snakes in Kakamega Forest or compensate us for losses of crops and life, farmers tell state

The law lists elephants, lions, leopards, rhinos, hyena, crocodiles, hippopotamus and wild dogs as those eligible for compensation under the Act, but excludes monkeys and snakes local people say are equally dangerous.

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Nigeria food security: How water over-extraction, deforestation have created Africa’s hungriest nation

Nigeria food security: How water over-extraction, deforestation have created Africa’s hungriest nation

More than 80 per cent of Nigeria’s farmers are smallholder farmers, who account for 90 per cent of the country’s annual agricultural production. Some work their fields with little more than a piece of roughly carved wood and their bare hands.

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Fears that Pfizer lied about its vaccine’s efficacy as federal judge sends Kansas lawsuit against company back to state court

Fears that Pfizer lied about its vaccine’s efficacy as federal judge sends Kansas lawsuit against company back to state court

Pfizer filed an opposing motion in October 2024, in which it presented three arguments for why the case belonged in federal court. The final argument was that Kansas’ claims were “completely pre-empted by the PREP Act and are thus removable to federal court.”

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