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AATF Unveils New Plan to Transform African Agriculture

AATF Unveils New Plan to Transform African Agriculture By Gift Briton The African Agricultural Technology Foundation(AATF) has launched a new strategic plan that will transform African agriculture in order to achieve a prosperous, resilient, food and nutrition-secure continent. Through its 2023-2027 strategy plan, AATF has committed to deploying and upscaling Next Generation (NextGen) agricultural technologies […]
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Africa: Facilitate Personalized Medicine for Equitable Health, Scientists Say

Africa: Facilitate Personalized Medicine for Equitable Health, Scientists Say By Mary Hearty Africa continues to experience a comparatively high burden of diseases, especially in infectious diseases such as malaria, HIV and non-communicable diseases, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). It is estimated that these problems affect approximately one billion people which leads to about […]
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COVID-19 not a Global Health Emergency

COVID-19 not a Global Health Emergency By Fidelis Rukwaro Following a recommendation made by the World Health Organization (WHO) Emergency Committee for COVID-19, the disease will no longer be categorized as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). A PHEIC is declared when an emergency is “serious, sudden, unusual or unexpected” with its effects going beyond the affected […]
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Global Initiative to Supplement Healthy Vegetable Production in Kenya, Ethiopia

Global Initiative to Supplement Healthy Vegetable Production in Kenya, Ethiopia By Mary Hearty The Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI) has collaborated with the World Vegetable Center and SNVNetherlands Development Organisation to promote healthy vegetable production and consumption in Kenya and Ethiopia. This is through the ‘Veggies 4 Planet & People (V4P&P)’ initiative, a €6m five-year […]
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CSOs Urged to Spearhead Progress in Achieving Hand Hygiene Goals

CSOs Urged to Spearhead Progress in Achieving Hand Hygiene Goals By Gift Briton As the world commemorates hand hygiene day on May 5th, the World Health Organization(WHO) has encouraged civil society organizations (CSOs) to spearhead and accelerate effective hand hygiene practices in communities and healthcare facilities. According to WHO most healthcare-associated infections are preventable through good hand hygiene practices […]
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Kenyan-based NGO Partners with MIT to Increase Graduation Rates in Informal Settlements

Kenyan-based NGO Partners with MIT to Increase Graduation Rates in Informal Settlements By Gift Briton CFK Africa, an international non-profit organization based in the informal settlement of Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya has partnered with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to leverage evidence-based solutions to increase primary school graduation rates. CFK Africa becomes one of the 10 […]
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Eastern Africa: Heavy Rainfall to Continue Over Several Parts

Eastern Africa: Heavy Rainfall to Continue Over Several Parts By Gift Briton Heavy to moderate rainfall is expected over most parts of eastern Ethiopia, central to northern Somalia, western Kenya, isolated areas in Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and Somalia, north-western Tanzania, central to northern Ethiopia, and western South Sudan. This is according to the Intergovernmental Authority on […]
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