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.
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.
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
World Bank: Africa’s glut of young workers is not a threat but an extraordinary opportunity upon which prosperity of the world depends
The most recent UN estimates project that Africa’s population, driven by both falling mortality and high fertility, will grow from 1.4 billion today to 2.5 billion by 2050. With China, Japan, Korea and European countries all likely to experience a sharp decline in young workers, the world economy is set to slow sharply unless it receives a productivity boost from the billion young people being added to Africa’s population in the next quarter century. The dynamism of Africa’s youth is central to the future of the global economy.
Wealth: When Jeff Bezos moved from Seattle to Miami, he shook Washington’s entire budget
Washington’s capital gains tax is unusual by American standards. The state does not tax wage or salary income, but since 2022, it has imposed a 7 per cent tax on long-term capital gains above roughly $262,000 from assets such as stocks and bonds. Real estate sales are exempt.
MP Obo’s historic Wildlife Compensation Law extends cover to injuries and fatalities caused by sharks, stonefish, whales and stingrays
The historic legislation was sponsored by Lamu East Member of Parliament Ruweida Obo. It explicitly extends compensation to cover injuries and fatalities caused by sharks, stonefish, whales and stingrays – species that had previously been excluded from Kenya’s wildlife compensation regime.
Relief for Turkana pastoralists after Kerio Valley authority drills 24,000-litre capacity borehole
Kerio Valley Development Authority Managing Director Sammy Naporos said the authority has invested at least Ksh200 million in 17 water projects benefiting 204,000 people and 300,0000 livestock across the county.
UN visits Sudan’s el-Fasher since RSF takeover, finds hundreds without access to food, medical supplies
For the past two months, el-Fasher has been nearly entirely cut off from the outside world, leaving aid groups unsure over how many people remained there and their situation. The death toll from the RSF takeover, which came after a more than a year-long siege, remains unknown.
Sense of community: Why patients with disability in central Kenya hospital prefer ‘Doctor on Wheelchair’
While using her own journey as motivation, Dr Mithamo is quick to dispel the belief that disability automatically limits a child’s future. She advises parents to seek medical help early and explore available interventions.