Kenyan among 100 women honoured by FAO for driving change across agri-food systems Zipporah Nyaguthii Gitonga. PHOTO/FAO By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT [email protected] Kenya’s Zipporah Nyaguthii Gitonga was among 100 Women Heroes in Agrifood Systems and Rural Development, honoured by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today. Zipporah is a Kenyan agribusiness leader…
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Bagbin, has called for a fundamental change in the African mindset, saying the continent cannot continue to “grow from the future to pay for the past”. He said a change in attitude was crucial to Africa’s progress, particularly in addressing its debt burden and building sustainable economies. Mr Bagbin,…
Africa has been urged to move beyond climate commitments and translate them into tangible results through stronger collaboration, private investors and development institutions. George Nwangwu, Convener of the Africa Climate Forum, made the call in his welcome address at the fourth edition of the forum held in Abuja on Tuesday. He noted that the continent…
Climate change doesn’t change the virus or make it more infectious or deadly. It changes the infrastructure and systems – such as roads, clinics and patient records – that hold HIV in check. Here’s how the two connect, and how to report it. On 12 April 2022, Mfundo Shezi woke when the skies cracked open…
Nairobi — Africa is off track to meet its malaria reduction targets, with climate change, biological resistance, shrinking donor funding and inadequate intervention coverage threatening efforts to eliminate the disease by 2030, the World Health Organization has warned. WHO Kenya Deputy Representative Dr. Boston Zimba said the continent accounted for 94 per cent of global…
A military coup d’état is the ouster of an elected president or head of state, usually through the use or threat of force. Putschists (those who participate in a coup) often justify their actions by accusing the government of mismanaging the economy and lowering living standards. Political instability is another reason coup makers give for…
Thousands of years ago, farmers in West Africa took a wild ancestor of rice and turned it into a crop of their own. But it was difficult to harvest and, over time, globally dominant Asian rice pushed it aside. Yet African rice survived in some of the region’s harshest growing conditions, coping with drought, deep…
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Suva, Fiji & Srinagar, India — Extreme heat is increasingly threatening pregnant women and newborn babies around the world, with almost all maternal health professionals surveyed across five continents saying they have cared for women or infants whose health was affected by high temperatures. The findings, released as climate ministers gathered in the Pacific ahead…
Ayman Essam, Chief Officer: External Affairs, Vodacom Group. Africa’s most overlooked energy resource may be energy efficiency. As the continent races to expand generation capacity and works to connect millions more people to reliable electricity, we also need to extract more value from every unit of energy we already produce. Vodacom’s recent decarbonisation report highlights…
