The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has launched a new digital platform aimed at transforming Africa’s health products manufacturing landscape and driving regional ...

Richard Okumu crouches to dip his hands into River Kibos at Kajulu village, Kisumu County, ready to scoop water that passes through undulating hills and boulders before emptying into Lake Victoria. Mr ...

Joyce Kimani, a graduate of supply chain management, was frustrated after searching for a job after graduation proved futile. When her four-year hard work at the university had not paid off, she ...

Marcella Nyiransabimana wakes up at five every morning. Her primary activities are farming on a small two-hectare plot of her farm in Mwurire and caring for her children in a remote Mwurire village in ...

The Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW)—East Africa project, supported by the Gates Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Canada’s International Development Research ...

Fresh cassava roots are highly perishable with some studies showing a shelf-life of less than 72 hours after harvest and post-harvest losses of about one in four (more than 23%) for freshly harvested ...

Kisumu, Siaya, Homabay, Migori and Busia are the five Kenyan Counties bordering Lake Victoria; the largest in Africa and the second largest fresh water body in the World. Every day, Lake Victoria is ...

In 2023, 18-year-old Claire Njeri* lost her baby. The baby had suffered from asphyxia – a condition where the body doesn’t get enough oxygen, leading to unconsciousness and potentially death. At just ...

Poor solid waste management is emerging as a public health risk in Kenya with eight out of ten plastic and other waste generated by households in urban slum areas in the country being disposed of ...

Even though Kakamega forest has an extensive variety of birds, reptiles and insects that make the biodiversity hub unique, large mammals are now rare. The forest, a tropical rainforest situated in the ...

Kibera, like other slums in Africa, is facing dire challenges of sanitation. The large population in the informal settlement is a limiting factor to the development of a long-term solution to the ...

A baseline study using a gender lens was conducted from March to June 2023 on the impacts of climate change on the livelihoods of the fisher communities in the Lake Victoria Region of Homa Bay and ...