The song, Alone and frightened, goes on as it enumerates the power of accurate information in the fight against HIV which is, ...

To address the growing challenge of dementia across Sub-Saharan Africa, the Brain and Mind Institute at Aga Khan University and the FINGERS Brain Health Institute have launched the Africa FINGERS ...

In this in-depth Q&A, Daniel Otunge sat down with Dr. Enock Chikava, Director of Agricultural Delivery Systems at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to seek his insights into the impact of climate ...

Polio, a disease that can cause irreversible paralysis, is nearing global eradication thanks to vaccination efforts. Yet, in Kenya, vaccine-derived polio strains persist. According to Dr. Christine ...

Changing people’s views and interactions with the natural world is crucial to halting and reversing biodiversity loss and safeguarding life on Earth. This is according to a new report by the ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has deployed experts to support health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to determine the cause of an unknown infectious disease reported in ...

Countries have committed to prioritizing land restoration and drought resilience in national policies and international cooperation as an essential strategy for food security and climate adaptation.

As droughts fuelled by human destruction of the environment are projected to affect three in four people by 2050, investing in sustainable land and water management is essential to reduce their costs, ...

To restore over one billion hectares of degraded land and build resilience to drought, at least USD 2.6 trillion in total investments are needed by 2030. This is according to estimates by the United ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has endorsed a new test for tuberculosis (TB) that uses molecular analysis to detect the genetic markers of the bacterium that causes the disease in the saliva of ...

The expansion of JBS, one of the world’s largest food companies, into Nigeria has been met with mixed reactions. Animal welfare activists have expressed concern over potential environmental and animal ...

Researchers have urged African countries to embrace research findings on water security for actionable policies to mitigate the impacts of climate change. Prof. Daniel Olago, Research Director at the ...