June 2025 – Page 3 – Science Africa

16 Jun, 25

Africa Urged to Embrace New Technologies to Improve Food Security

Africa Urged to Embrace New Technologies to Improve Food Security By Duncan Mboyah African governments and technocrats should embrace new technologies to improve food safety, security and loss. Dr. Qimiao Fan, Division Director in charge of Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia and Uganda, eastern and southern Africa at the World Bank said that the complex challenges experienced […]

12 Jun, 25

UN Ocean Conference: A Global Call to Save Our Blue Heart

UN Ocean Conference: A Global Call to Save Our Blue Heart By Thuku Kariuki The third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) brings together governments, scientists, business leaders, fishers, indigenous peoples, and civil society to confront the escalating crisis threatening the lifeblood of our planet. The ocean, covering over 70% of Earth’s surface, produces half the […]

Global Gender Gap Improves, More Effort Needed

Global Gender Gap Improves, More Effort Needed By Sharon Atieno Strides in political empowerment and economic participation have led to a remarkable improvement in the gender gap since the COVID-19 pandemic. The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2025 notes that through these efforts, the gender parity gap has closed at nearly 70% while […]

World Environment Day: Mobilizing Commitment, Action to End Plastic Pollution

World Environment Day: Mobilizing Commitment, Action to End Plastic Pollution By Joyce Ojanji With plastic leakage to the environment predicted to grow by 50 per cent, permeating every corner of the planet, and that pollution creeping into our bodies through food, drinking water, and air, World Environment Day, marked annually every 5th June, called for […]

06 Jun, 25

Focus on the Underserved for Improved Health Outcomes, Countries Urged

Focus on the Underserved for Improved Health Outcomes, Countries Urged By Sharon Atieno African countries have been urged to focus their efforts on the underserved and unreached to improve health indicators on the continent. With nearly half of the African population, about 615 million people, unable to access healthcare, Dr. Ahmed Ogwell, CEO and President […]

06 Jun, 25

Kenya: Innovative Tools Keeping Polio at Bay

Kenya: Innovative Tools Keeping Polio at Bay By Joyce Chimbi Joyce Nakhumicha was an all-round healthy baby, born in the planting season of 1977 in western Kenya. In the early 1980s, she fell suddenly ill. “One morning, I began to stumble and fall. My hands were shaky and could not hold my cup of porridge. […]

UN Expert Condemns Kenya’s Land Demarcation in Ogiek Territory

UN Expert Condemns Kenya’s Land Demarcation in Ogiek Territory By Gift Briton A United Nations expert has condemned Kenya’s ongoing land demarcation in the Eastern Mau Complex. The process threatens the ancestral lands of the Ogiek people and violates court orders from Africa’s highest human rights tribunal. Albert Barume, the UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous […]

05 Jun, 25

Ghanaian Oncology Nurse Wins Prestigious $250,000 Global Award

Ghanaian Oncology Nurse Wins Prestigious $250,000 Global Award By Stephanie Mukandairo In a moment that celebrated the profound impact of nursing on global healthcare, Ghanaian oncology specialist, Naomi Oyoe Ohene Oti was crowned the winner of the Aster Guardians Global Nursing Award 2025, taking home the prestigious USD 250,000 prize at a grand ceremony in […]

05 Jun, 25

Gates Foundation to Focus Majority of $200 Billion Pledge on Africa

Gates Foundation to Focus Majority of $200 Billion Pledge on Africa By Gift Briton Bill Gates has announced that most of his $200 billion charitable pledge will go to Africa over the next 20 years. The Gates Foundation Chair said while addressing over 12,000 officials and partners online and in person, at the African Union […]

03 Jun, 25

Bold Legal Action Needed to Protect Women, Girls

Bold Legal Action Needed to Protect Women, Girls By Stephanie Mukandairo The African Union (AU) Member States have been called to urgently address rising sexual violence and exploitation of women and girls across the continent. The appeal launched by Equality Now, an international human rights organization, focuses on criminalizing femicide, ending child marriage, securing reparations […]