Daiichi Sankyo Company and Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd on Wednesday announced an initiative to sponsor mobile healthcare field clinics in India, Cameroon and Tanzania as part of their global social co

Leading aid and development charity Oxfam said 36 per cent of Pakistanis were undernourished, listing Pakistan among the 21 nations of the world which were found to be undernourished according to a

Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki set fire to five tonnes of contraband ivory on Wednesday, a symbol of his and Africa's renewed commitment to fight poaching.

Elephant numbers had started to recover after the ivory trade was banned in 1990, but observers say the rising wealth of east Asian countries has caused a price and demand spike in recent years.

Mirroring a ceremony by former Kenyan presid

Tanzania will build an unpaved road through the Serengeti National Park and game rangers will control traffic to avoid disturbing the annual migration of wildebeest.

"The Serengeti road project has not been abandoned ... we have just revised it.

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Tanzania, one of Africa's top gold producers, is considering a "super profit" tax on earnings from minerals as one of the ways to fund its five-year development plan, according to documents seen by Reuters.

The move follows similar steps in other producer countries that have sought to increase fiscal revenue from the mining industry and to take advantage of rising prices.

Australia was among

Efficient cookstoves and better crop seeds could play a key role in saving forests in sub-Saharan Africa, helping to cut emissions of climate-warming carbon dioxide, environmental experts reported on Sunday.

This is important, since deforestation and forest degradation are the second-largest source of human-caused carbon dioxide emissions after the burning of fossil fuels.

Bangladesh is planning to take lease of huge amounts of land in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania for farming aiming at ensuring its food security as well as creating jobs for its farmers. President Zillur Rahman was apprised of the developments in this regard by the newly appointed Bangladesh Ambassador to Kenya, Wahidur Rahman, at Bangabhaban here on Monday.