Kenya, two other African countries launch two-year drive to reduce agrochemicals use, raise farm yields as they target EU markets
CABI is leading key partners in implementing the project to address outbreaks of endemic pests, invasion by non-native pests, depletion of nutrient, and soil becoming less suppressive resulting in the majority of soil-borne pathogens.
Kenya’s envoy to UNEP heaps praise on East African nation’s most dominant Mulembe culture
Others present were the County Executive Committee Member (CECM) for Sports, Culture, Gender and Social Services Josephine Achieng, Chief Officers Everlyn Kakai (Economic Planning) Gladys Kamuren (Gender and Social Services), Alice Abuki (External Resource Mobilisation), Kivumbini Member of County Assembly Neto Sakwa and his Olkaria counterpart Peter Palanga.
CDC relied on cherry-picked data to claim no link between Merck’s Gardasil vaccine and POTS
Other European researchers provided compelling research to the EMA that Merck was wrong. And experts, including some appointed to the investigation by the EMA, raised serious doubts about Merck’s conclusions, as leaked documents reported by BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine revealed.
Was Maradona’s death case of homicide? Doctors who treated the soccer legend go on trial for negligence
Luque oversaw Maradona’s hospital-to-home transition after the surgery. The swift discharge raised questions at the time, with some experts suggesting that Maradona should have stayed longer in the hospital after his operation.
South African artist hopes vibrant sculptures make parks more welcoming in unsafe Johannesburg
Authorities in Johannesburg have encouraged public art to improve safety and environmental conditions in the city of some six million people whose downtown has a reputation for crime and degradation. Johannesburg is considered one of the world’s most dangerous cities, based on crime data.
Girls in Kenya’s Maasai pastoralist community take up self-defence training to ward off sexual abuse, early marriages
Girls’ education apparently has an impact on gender-based violence too, with 34 per cent of Kenyan women surveyed saying they were victims of physical violence, a figure that drops to 23 per cent for women with education.
Africa faces ‘deadlier’ test as malaria season sets in against backdrop of Trump’s US aid cuts weaken the fight against it
Uganda in 2023 had 12.6 million malaria cases and nearly 16,000 deaths, many of them children under 5 and pregnant women, according to WHO. Opigo said the US has been giving between $30 million and $35 million annually for malaria control. He didn’t say which contracts have been terminated but noted that field research was also affected.
Ethiopia teeters on brink of another conflict a year after Pretoria peace deal ended a brutal civil war in Tigray region
Over the last 18 months, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has launched a campaign to reclaim landlocked Ethiopia’s sea access, which it lost when Eritrea seceded in 1993. This prompted an angry row with Somalia that has only just been patched up.
From chasing criminals in streets and bushes, Kenyan police officer turns focus on deforestation in arid areas
Beyond tree planting, Justus Mwendwa has also ventured into waste management and reduction of carbon emission. He designed a 50 kilogrammes smokeless incinerator at the Machakos Police Headquarters. The incinerator burns waste in a lower chamber, compresses smoke in an upper chamber, and releases vapour instead of harmful emissions.
Contested between Sudan and South Sudan’s oil-rich Abyei territory’s years in political limbo renews ethnic hostility
There have also been longer-standing clashes between the Ngok Dinka and Misseriya pastoralists, who migrate seasonally through Abyei and have historically acted as proxies for the Sudanese government; although there has been a reduction in tensions in recent years.
