Female genital schistosomiasis disease, often misdiagnosed as STI, is ravaging Kenyan coast
Unbeknown to health experts, the spread of and severity of female genital schistosomiasis disease is ravaging coastal Kenya. Researchers now want the national and county governments to list it at a reproductive health issue. The research findings have put ministry of health and county health departments on high alert, with...
How ‘big belly’ is fast changing from a symbol of wealth to a sign of ‘early grave’ in Africa
In South Africa, obesity-related deaths due to non-communicable diseases have surpassed HIV-related deaths, according to the WHO. The 2025 World Obesity Atlas said 32 per cent of South Africa’s adults are obese.
Pfizer, Moderna ordered to add stronger warnings about possible heart damage from Covid vaccines
The FDA issued the letters the same day the US Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations issued a report showing that public health officials under the Biden administration failed to warn the public of the myocarditis risk associated with Covid-19 vaccines and actively downplayed that risk.
Kenya, Zimbabwe set benchmark for testing and quarantine systems to check maize lethal necrosis
Dr Suresh said that their Mine Countermeasures Vessel (MCMV) seed treatment prototype has sanitised more than 8,000 germplasm lines.
UK Covid Inquiry was always going to do everything to bury evidence that does not suit the narrative of ‘vaccines are safe and effective’
Needless to point out, this information is nowhere to be found in the mainstream media, which does not seem to matter any longer, given the plethora of alternative news and discussion sites available to people doing their own research, as long as one remembers to cross-check information, to the fullest possible extent, before accepting its accuracy.
Dead and buried: Why Covid vaccine injury victims and families do not get justice
Needless to point out, this information is nowhere to be found in the mainstream media, which does not seem to matter any longer, given the plethora of alternative news and discussion sites available to people doing their own research, as long as one remembers to cross-check information, to the fullest possible extent, before accepting its accuracy.
WHO faces uncertain future as US accuses it of being ‘mired in bureaucratic bloat, entrenched paradigms, conflicts of interest’
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the WHO capitulated to pressure from the Chinese government by promoting “the fiction that Covid originated from bats or pangolins, rather than from Chinese government-sponsored research at a biolab in Wuhan,” Kennedy said, in a reference to the lab-leak theory of Covid-19’s origin.
Kenya teams up with fellow COMESA member states to ensure access to quality seed varieties
According to Ronoh, the establishment of COMSHIP in 2014, and its coordination by Alliance for Commodity Trade in Eastern and Southern Africa (ACTESA) was intended to guide COMESA member states in fast-tracking the implementation of the harmonised framework for seed variety release
Nairobi meeting: Harmonisation of seed policies key to realising food security in COMESA bloc
Mukuka said the COMESA Seed Trade Harmonisation Regulations have been officially gazetted in 11 COMESA member-states, namely, Burundi, Egypt, Ethiopia, Eswatini, Malawi, Rwanda, Kenya, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, with DR Congo earmarked for the official gazette of the COMESA Seed Trade Harmonisation Regulations by end of May 2025.
Food safety activists in Kenya pile pressure on state to make public list of banned pesticides
The NGOs noted there had been inaction in the implementation of past regulations on toxic pesticides control which they blamed on lack of proper enforcement policies and invested commercial interests.
