Uganda in the crosshairs of a new threat after Marburg virus case is detected in Kyegegwa District
World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed a case of Marburg virus disease in Uganda’s western Kyegegwa District, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced during his opening remarks at the WHO media briefing on Thursday. The case was identified through enhanced disease surveillance for Ebola, according to WHO. Ugandan health authorities notified...
High prospects of Kenya’s economy becoming minerals-driven jolts state into mining laws reforms
The proposed legislative reforms include the Explosives Bill (2026) the Minerals, Mining and Beneficiation Policy, the Explosives (Fees) Regulations and the Mine Health, Safety and Environment Regulations.
US signs agreement to invest $1.3 billion in Tanzania’s health sector over the next five years
The agreement, signed late on Wednesday, is similar to those struck with countries including Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda under US President Donald Trump’s “America First Global Health Strategy”, designed to make poorer nations more self-reliant as the US has dismantled foreign aid programmes.
It is not just competition of who’ll win the World Cup, the world is also watching ‘who’s next manager to get the axe’
The Netherlands’ Ronald Koeman, Ecuador’s Sebastian Beccacece, Uruguay’s Marcelo Bielsa and South Korea’s Hong Myung-bo are the latest to step down following the departures of Scotland’s Steve Clarke, the Czech Republic’s Miroslav Koubek and Tunisia’s Sabri Lamouchi.
Turning cotton waste into archival paper: Egypt’s breakthrough in manuscript conservation
Soliman Ahmed, a lead laboratory conservator who participated in the development trials, said perfecting the cotton formula required moving past rigid chemical equations to master manual papermaking as an intuitive art form, where the craftsman physically judges the exact weight of the water and the pull of the screen.
Official: Kenya turns to menstrual economy for accelerated industrial growth, arrest period poverty
Embu Woman Representative Pamela Njeru said period poverty remains a major barrier to education, health and economic empowerment for women and girls, urging stakeholders to shift from charity-based interventions to sustainable investments in the menstrual economy.
Trump administration allows Anthropic to grant access to its most advanced AI model to select US firms and state agencies
The US government has eased the restrictions it imposed on Anthropic’s most advanced AI model, Claude Mythos 5, allowing the company to grant access to more than 100 US organisations, including large corporations and government agencies. In a letter to Anthropic’s co-founder and chief compute officer Tom Brown obtained by...
Race to AI dominance: China outpaces US, builds world’s fastest supercomputer claim top spot in TOP500 ranking
With a power consumption of approximately 42.2 megawatts, the Chinese supercomputer delivers 2,198 exaflops – meaning it can perform more than two quintillion operations per second.
Australian government to double fines for breaches of under-16 social media ban
The Australian government has announced that it will move to double the maximum fine for companies that fail to enforce the nation’s social media ban for children younger than 16. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in a statement at the weekend that technology companies are not “doing enough” to comply...
Survey: Siaya County in Lake Victoria Basin bears heaviest respiratory disease burden in Kenya owing to dirty cooking energy
EPRA Director General Joseph Okech said the initiative is part of the organisation’s corporate social responsibility in line with the government’s agenda of promoting access to universal health.
