TOP STORIES IN SCIENCE AFRICA – Page 2

22 Oct, 24

Innovative Ubuntu-Afya Kiosks Transforming Primary Health Care in Kenya

Innovative Ubuntu-Afya Kiosks Transforming Primary Health Care in Kenya By Gift Briton The morning sunlight casts a golden glow over the rocky landscape of Lake Victoria’s Mfangano Island in Homabay County as Siprine Wanjoro walks purposefully towards a community medical centre with her six-week-old baby cradled in her arms like a delicate treasure. As she […]

25 Sep, 24

Sudan: Need for Intervention as Child, Maternal Deaths Increase

Sudan: Need for Intervention as Child, Maternal Deaths Increase By Sharon Atieno The war between Sudanese forces which broke out in April 2023 is resulting in one of the worst maternal and child health emergencies in the world. With hospitals destroyed pregnant, birthing, and postpartum women, as well as children, are dying from preventable conditions […]

Snake bites Still a Cause for Concern

Snake bites Still a Cause for Concern By Joyce Ojanji Snake bites have been grouped among the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) by the World Health Organization (WHO), as they receive little attention despite their devastating impact on communities. Experts have raised concerns that access to care and systemic inequities have made it worse for victims […]

24 Sep, 24

Gates Foundation Honours Children’s Health and Nutrition Champions

By Daniel Otunge The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation celebrated remarkable leaders advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (Global Goals) with solutions to keep people healthy and nourished in a rapidly warming world during the Goalkeepers 2024: Recipe for Progress event in New York. The annual event highlighted opportunities to ensure better nutrition so […]

22 Sep, 24

Agroecology Economies Can Halt the Pace of Hunger, Poverty

Agroecology Economies Can Halt the Pace of Hunger, Poverty By Joyce Chimbi Conventional food production models are increasingly vulnerable to climate change and their long commercialization channels often succumb to food waste, energy inefficiency and corporate concentration. Food waste is a market failure where at least $1 trillion worth of food is thrown away every […]

20 Sep, 24

Restoration: African Solutions Best Fit for Continent

Restoration: African Solutions Best Fit for Continent By Joyce Ojanji As the world prepares for the 2024 United Nations conferences on climate, biodiversity and desertification, experts at the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) Africa 2024 Hybrid Conference emphasized the need for African solutions in the restoration of landscapes in the continent. “There is a need to […]

Reboot Climate Action, UN Report Urges

Reboot Climate Action, UN Report Urges The science is clear. We are far off track from achieving vital climate goals. The impacts of climate change and hazardous weather are reversing development gains and threatening the well-being of people and the planet, according to a new multi-agency report coordinated by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Greenhouse […]

20 Sep, 24

Africa’s Water Crisis is a Management Problem

Africa’s Water Crisis is a Management Problem By Sharon Atieno With 17 major river basins, over 160 lakes and vast wetlands, Africa is endowed with abundant water resources, despite this, the continent remains water-stressed. The Global Water Security 2023 Assessment released during the United Nations 2023 Water Conference, found that all African nations were “water […]

18 Sep, 24

Transforming Food Systems – Can Donors Move Money To Grassroots Organizations?

Transforming Food Systems – Can Donors Move Money To Grassroots Organizations? By Joyce Chimbi United Nations (UN) researchers find that food systems are responsible for approximately a third of global emissions. Agroecology has been fronted as an essential solution to help remove harmful gases such as methane and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and sequester […]

18 Sep, 24

Africa: Rainwater Could Help Address Urban Water Poverty

Africa: Rainwater Could Help Address Urban Water Poverty By Sharon Atieno It’s 10.00 am on Sunday morning, Margaret Nasimiyu, a resident of Ngomongo area within Korogocho ward, Nairobi City is armed with three jerricans fetching water from a water dispensing machine. She notes that the machines, installed by the Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company […]