Two Belgian citizens, a Vietnamese national and a Kenyan have been sentenced following involvement in illegal wildlife trafficking. The four traffickers Lornoy David and Seppe Lodewijcky from Belgium, ...

On the occasion of its 25th year, the Gates Foundation today made a new commitment to accelerate its mission to help all people live healthy, productive lives by spending $200 billion over the next 20 ...

At the United Nations Food Systems Summit +4 (UNFSS) Regional Preparatory Meeting in Nairobi, Sudan’s representative, Dr. Ageeb M. Madani, underscored the nation’s dual reality of advancing food ...

Across Africa, pastoralists and livestock keepers sustain herding systems which are closely bound up with our landscapes and crucial to nationwide food security, economic growth, and ecological ...

Governments have promised to end malaria by 2030. With around five and a half years left to eliminate the vector-borne disease worldwide, it is alarming that progress is off the mark. More worrying is ...

World Animal Protection has launched a global campaign calling for a just transition away from industrial animal agriculture, ahead of the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) set to ...

A coalition of global philanthropies has announced the launch of the Beginnings Fund, a new philanthropic initiative committed to accelerating maternal and newborn survival across Africa. With a focus ...

The Academy of Science of South Africa has the mandate through the ASSAf Act (Act, No 67 of 2001) to “advise the Minister on matters concerning science”. This is in line with its key objectives such ...

Two leading health sector unions have protested the hurried establishment of the Kenya National Public Health Institute (KNPHI), and accused the Ministry of Health of sidelining critical stakeholders ...

A new shipment of 200,000 mpox vaccines doses provided by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance will arrive this week in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in support of the country’s on-going response ...

The government of Kenya and neighbouring Uganda, have signed a bilateral agreement for the joint implementation of the Angololo Multipurpose Water Resources Development Project (AMWRDP). The project ...