Category: Science

“I was always sick when I grew tobacco, yet it’s earnings were not that much,” he says.

This week at the Annual Meetings of the Africa Development Bank (AfDB) in Sharm El-Sheikh, the bank’s president Akinwumi Adesina argued African countries are undervalued in spite of the burden they are holding for the world when it comes to climate change.

The Covid-19 pandemic, which for over three years has killed millions of people, wreaked economic havoc and deepened inequalities, no longer constitutes a global health emergency, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Friday.

The new initiative will help to improve clinical decision-making regarding antimicrobial use and to inform practices and guidelines for prescribers, users and policymakers.

The panel's 15th meeting on the crisis comes more than three years after it first sounded the WHO's highest emergency alarm as what was then called the novel coronavirus began spreading outside China.

East Africa's worst drought in 40 years has forced millions of Somalis to leave their homes. Five consecutive failed rainy seasons pushed the fragile nation to the brink of famine and this year is unlikely to be much different.

“In the past 40 years arid climate regions in Kenya have expanded from 72 to 81 percent, a roughly 50,000-km2 shift from humid and semi-humid-to-semi-arid to arid regions. While tropical climate regions expanded from 91 to 93 percent with over 13,000km2 shifting from high-altitude and...

The death of the child brought the country’s Marburg death toll to six since its outbreak in the region on March 21, 2023, the Minister of Health Ummy Mwalimu announced when she released an update on the disease.

Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Forestry Soipan Tuya this week pitched the idea before a group of enthusiasts in Denmark.

An assessment by World Economic Forum (WEF) reveals that the costs of transitioning from fossil fuel propulsion of aircraft to alternative forms like electricity and liquefied hydrogen could significantly hike airlines’ operating costs.