Rwanda’s minister of health, Dr. Sabin Nsanzimana, Kenya’s Dr. Jemimah Njuki, and chief of economic empowerment at UN Women, Ladidi Bako-Aiyegbusi of Nigeria, and Beza Beshah Haile of Ethiopia are ...

The Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) has announced the launch of a Phase 3 clinical trial for the M72/AS01E tuberculosis (TB) vaccine candidate in Kenya. According to a press statement from ...

By checky Abuje A group of Experts attending the 46th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change have concluded the Meeting for Least Developed Countries with calls to accelerate adaptation ...

In a new study published this week in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, working with partners in Africa and the UK, present a novel plant-host ...

“The introduction of this state-of-the-art technology at The Nairobi West Hospital is a game-changer for patients across Kenya and the surrounding regions. Until now, patients requiring advanced ...

IAS – the International AIDS Society – has urged for the immediate distribution of effective mpox vaccines amid the upsurge in mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and across many other ...

Esther Kimani was named winner of Africa’s biggest engineering prize, the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, in Nairobi on 13 June 2024. Her early crop pest and ...

A man stands by carcasses of livestock in Dinsoor district, southern Somalia where a devastating drought has wiped out thousands of livestock and left pastoralist families desolate. ; Three ...

By Shobha Shukla – CNS If we fail to find all cases of an infectious disease (and put them on care), then it will keep spreading. “We are not able to find all TB cases as of now. We had an estimated 1 ...

On August 28, the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) hosted a press conference, where they released a briefing paper revealing how AGRA (formerly the Alliance for a Green Revolution in ...

South Africa will host a transformative gathering of 1,000 women, 16 from each of the 55 African countries, later this month in a unique five-day dialogue focused on advancing women’s contributions to ...