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12 Apr, 22

icipe’s Insect-Fortified Porridge to Boost Africa’s Food, Nutritional Security

icipe’s Insect-Fortified Porridge to Boost Africa’s Food, Nutritional Security By Mary Hearty Scientists from the International Centre of Insect Physiology (icipe) have transformed Africa’s popular porridge using edible insect nutrients, a game-changer for improving food and nutritional security in Africa. The scientists observe that although the predominant African porridge cereals, like sorghum and finger millet, […]

11 Apr, 22

Kenyan Fish Farmers Using Alternative Treatment Methods to Antimicrobials

Kenyan Fish Farmers Using Alternative Treatment Methods to Antimicrobials By Mary Hearty George Muga, Director of Muga Fish Farm, located in Karachuonyo, Homabay County, uses salt bath as a way of treating fish infections that occur in his farm as it is affordably cheaper unlike use of antimicrobials. Whenever he detects fish with problems like […]

11 Apr, 22

GAVI’s Commitment to Buy Africa Manufactured Vaccine Critical for Success

GAVI’s Commitment to Buy Africa Manufactured Vaccine Critical for Success GAVI Must Commit to Buy Africa Manufactured Vaccines or the Africa Vaccine Manufacturing Plan will FailBy Dr. Githinji Gitahi African governments, with strong support from Africa Union’s Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and WHO have engaged in high gear in an agenda to […]

11 Apr, 22

Curbing Antimicrobial Resistance in Farmed Fish in Kenya

Curbing Antimicrobial Resistance in Farmed Fish in Kenya By Mary Hearty George Muga, Director of Muga Fish Farm, located in Karachuonyo, Homabay County; uses salt bath as a way of treating fish infections that occur in his farm as it is affordably cheaper unlike use of antimicrobials. Whenever he detects fish with problems like bleeding […]

08 Apr, 22

Healed by the Sun: Solar Energy Lights the Way for Quality Rural Health in East Africa during COVID-19

Healed by the Sun: Solar Energy Lights the Way for Quality Rural Health in East Africa during COVID-19 By InfoNile Like most urban dwellers in Uganda who rushed to villages at the start of Covid-19 lockdowns, Gloria Mucyunguzi had another crisis to contend with in the village: erratic power. Remote from the grid, every time […]

08 Apr, 22

Weekly Forecast: Low Rainfall, High Temperatures across East Africa

Weekly Forecast: Low Rainfall, High Temperatures across East Africa By Gift Briton and Mary Hearty Most parts of East Africa are expected to receive low rainfall and high temperatures in the next few days (6th to 12th April), according to the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Climate Prediction & Applications Centre (ICPAC). In southern Sudan, northern South Sudan, southern […]

07 Apr, 22

Africa: Millions of Children at Risk of Missing Education despite Progress

Africa: Millions of Children at Risk of Missing Education despite Progress By Joyce Chimbi Marisol Ntalami is one of the 747,161 candidates who sat for the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education, a national exam for secondary students, in 2020. Of these, half of them were males, while the rest were females as per the Ministry of Education. […]

07 Apr, 22

Africa: Rising Climate-linked Health Emergencies, Three Initiatives to Increase Preparedness

Africa: Rising Climate-linked Health Emergencies, Three Initiatives to Increase Preparedness By Sharon Atieno More than half of public health emergencies recorded in the African region over the past two decades are climate-related, a new analysis by World Health Organization (WHO) shows. The analysis found that of the 2121 public health events recorded in the region […]

icipe, Sida Renew Cooperation to Strengthen Capacity of EA Scientists

icipe, Sida Renew Cooperation to Strengthen Capacity of EA Scientists By Mary Hearty The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) have signed a new five-year cooperation agreement to implement phase III of the Bioresources Innovations Network for Eastern Africa Development Programme (BioInnovate Africa). The commitment of […]

Africa: Rwanda’s Centre for Fourth Industrial Revolution to Scale up Technology

Africa: Rwanda’s Centre for Fourth Industrial Revolution to Scale up Technology By Mary Hearty The Ministry of Information Communication Technology and Innovation of Rwanda, in partnership with the World Economic Forum, has launched the first Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR) in Africa to help scale up technology through governance. The C4IRs shape new […]