"Zoonotic diseases" such as Ebola, SARS, Zika, HIV/AIDS, West Nile fever and COVID-19 are infections that jump between animals and humans, some of which leave illness and death in ... Read more »
Young people are often missing from leadership positions because of they lack experience, but members of Natiira Ateni Self Help group in Kenya's Turkana County changed this ... Read more »
The Turkana area of northern Kenya, a county bordering South Sudan, Uganda and Ethiopia, is known as the cradle of humanity and for Lake Turkana, the largest desert lake in the ... Read more »
The government has set aside over U.S.$1 billion to help farmers with interest-free loans, seeds and equipment to expand their operations and create employment opportunities - this ... Read more »
Among its plans to create essential tools to implement the Paris Agreement to cope with climate change Rwanda is planning to invest U.S.$285 million in the use of solar water ... Read more »
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari is urging farmers to produce more food to feed the nation. Even before the novel coronavirus, the country restricted food importation as it ... Read more »
The new swarm of locusts that has been seen in Turkana is reportedly is still in hopper state - young, immature and is not easy to spot, and is likely to spread into Eastern ... Read more »
Mobile tech startups are helping people get hold of fresh food during the COVID-19 pandemic by tapping into the rapid rise in smartphone use across the continent, write Kim ... Read more »
In most of Africa, people are more likely to die from starvation caused by the economic fallout from the pandemic than from the disease itself, the president of International Fund ... Read more »
allAfrica's Nontobeko Mlambo spoke with Jane Battersby, an Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town's African Centre for Cities, on the need to address malnutrition in ... Read more »
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