Studies show Covid boosters only improve Big Pharma’s bank accounts but don’t boost public health

Studies show Covid boosters only improve Big Pharma’s bank accounts but don’t boost public health

Whatever Covid-19 is and whatever the vaccines do, there has indeed been long-standing evidence that they are more effective in older people who are also at greater risk if they are infected with Covid-19.

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How latest air crash in Kenya’s Taita Taveta Forest brought back my own fears of death in Masai Mara 44 years ago

How latest air crash in Kenya’s Taita Taveta Forest brought back my own fears of death in Masai Mara 44 years ago

Honestly, I had not heard of small aircrafts crashing. So it was an imagination of someone being prepared to be one of the very first conservation biologists in the whole world. It was a fear factor, which almost made me not concentrate on what I saw. Yet we were required to write a joint report of our scientific expedition, which has to be impressionable in the scientific world in general and in the conservation field in particular.

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Kenya inaugurates marine research centre at the coast for under-studied biodiversity hotspots in Lamu, Tana River and Kwale

Kenya inaugurates marine research centre at the coast for under-studied biodiversity hotspots in Lamu, Tana River and Kwale

WRTI Director and CEO Patrick Omondi said the need for community-driven conservation strategies to raise coastal conservation to 30 per cent in line with international targets set by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

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Why Uganda is no longer the still point of Africa’s turning wheel: Citizenry is woke and the ‘refugees’ in power must give way

Why Uganda is no longer the still point of Africa’s turning wheel: Citizenry is woke and the ‘refugees’ in power must give way

What is becoming increasingly evident is that Ugandans are waking up to their imposed reality: conquest, occupation and domination by a small group of people with exogenous roots, but endowed with power, money and ill-gotten wealth, and who are now determined to capture every civic space and natural wealth of Ugandans for their own aggrandisement

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Preliminary results show 83-yaar old Alassane Ouattara has been reelected Ivory Coast president

Preliminary results show 83-yaar old Alassane Ouattara has been reelected Ivory Coast president

Alassane Ouattara’s re-election is the latest example of aging men continuing to hold power in Africa, which boasts the youngest population in the world. Cameroon’s Paul Biya, 92, Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni, 81, and Equatorial Guinea’s Teodoro Mbasogo, 83, are some other older African leaders still in power.

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Kenya is hurtling towards self-destruction via toxic ethic rhetoric, law scholar PLO Lumumba warns

Kenya is hurtling towards self-destruction via toxic ethic rhetoric, law scholar PLO Lumumba warns

Speaking during the third African Youth Leadership Forum at Mount Kenya University on Sunday, Lumumba observed that the tribal discourse, coupled with the heightened political temperatures despite being two years away from the next general election, paints a grim picture of a nation trapped in toxic identity politics.

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83-old incumbent Ouattara predicted to win ‘pre-programmed’ Ivory Coast presidential poll

83-old incumbent Ouattara predicted to win ‘pre-programmed’ Ivory Coast presidential poll

The election is the latest example of ageing men continuing to hold power in Africa, which boasts the youngest population in the world. Cameroon’s Paul Biya, 92, Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni, 81, and Equatorial Guinea’s Teodoro Mbasogo, 83, are some other older African leaders still in power.

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Kenyan parents appeal for more specialised schools to cater for rising incidence of Down syndrome

Kenyan parents appeal for more specialised schools to cater for rising incidence of Down syndrome

Parents of children living with Down syndrome braved the scorching sun during an awareness campaign that began with a procession at the Kengeleni in Nyali Sub-County and culminated in a colourful event at the Kongowea Dispensary.

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‘Prolife’ champions launch ‘freedom from suicide’ and mental health campaign as Nyeri in central Kenya records 100 cases in ten months

‘Prolife’ champions launch ‘freedom from suicide’ and mental health campaign as Nyeri in central Kenya records 100 cases in ten months

Ochako also raised alarm over an increase in stock theft in the county, which he blamed on laxity in community policing. He said there was a need for partnership between security agents and members of the public in addressing security concerns and directed local administrators to enhance grassroots mobilisation in order to identify suspected criminal elements.

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Scientists: African livestock sector breeding programmes designed to lower methane emissions in fight against climate change

Scientists: African livestock sector breeding programmes designed to lower methane emissions in fight against climate change

Prof Chagunda acknowledged that Africa has not really been benefiting from the production systems compared to other European farmers and gave an example of how despite the same science, biology and animals being used, production of milk for the same breed of cattle would produce much less in Africa compared to Europe.

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