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16 Jun, 25

Fake Drugs Killing Over 100,000 Africans Annually

Fake Drugs Killing Over 100,000 Africans Annually By Sharon Atieno African countries bear the biggest brunt of fake medicines, accounting for nearly three in 10 medicines circulating the market. As a result, more than 100,000 Africans are losing their lives, a new report reveals. According to the white paper titled “Securing the Medicine Distribution Network […]

Overexploitation Depleting Fish Stocks, Sustainable Management Crucial

Overexploitation Depleting Fish Stocks, Sustainable Management Crucial By Sharon Atieno With more than a third of global fish stocks being overexploited, sustainable management is crucial to rebuild populations. This is according to a new report released by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) at the third UN Ocean Conference in Nice, France. The Review […]

Kenya: Science, Technology & Innovation to Transform Arid Lands

Kenya: Science, Technology & Innovation to Transform Arid Lands By Duncan Mboyah Kenya plans to use science, technology, and innovation to transform Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) to productive agricultural areas. Prof. Shaukat Abdulrazak, principal secretary in the State Department for Science, Research, and Innovation in the Ministry of Education, said that Kenya continues to […]

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 […]