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FRT to research on how ICT impacts on agricultural productivity
Farm Radio Trust will carry out a three-year research study starting this year (2018) to find out how Information and Communication Technology (ICT) impacts on agricultural productivity in Malawi. The
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Kenyans choke up tonnes of e-waste as bill gathers dust
At least 38 million Kenyans will today replace phone batteries they bought two years ago, but they have no place to dispose of the used gadgets. expired ones- probably in their dustbins, street, garden
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Mwashetani against mining in Lunga Lunga, says locals hurt
Lunga Lunga MP Khattib Mwashetani on Tuesday said no exploration activities will be allowed in the subcounty by the Ministry of Mining. He said the activities could displace poor locals from their land
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Cholera cases still being reported in counties – Unicef
A total of 817 cholera cases, resulting in 10 deaths have been reported this year, a Unicef-Kenya report shows. Seven counties are still reporting an active cholera outbreak. They are Nairobi, Garissa,
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EU gives Icipe grant to help farmers fight armyworm
Kenyan farmers will benefit from a Sh870 million European Union grant that will promote natural methods to fight the Fall armyworm. Scientists at the Kasarani-based International Centre of Insect Physiology
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MPs urge Uhuru to ban logging and declare it national disaster
A parliamentary committee yesterday demanded the government immediately bans logging and revokes loggers’ licences. The National Assembly Committee on Environment, chaired by Kereke Mbiuki (Maara),
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State moving 21 jumbos to Tsavo Park for Sh4.5m
The government has begun relocating 21 elephants from Solio and Sangare ranches in Laikipia county to the Tsavo National Park in the Coast region. The two-week exercise was launched by Tourism CS Najib
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Millions starve as food crunch bites yet again
Over 3.4 million Kenyans face death from starvation as a result of an acute food shortage that has hit at least 14 counties. The bad news comes barely two months after the government froze the Sh90
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CITES ignores illegal import to China of hundreds of wild elephants from Laos and Zimbabwe
Cape Town - In the last two years, China has imported more than 80 live Asian elephants from across its border in Laos and almost 100 juvenile African elephants from Zimbabwe. They were all destined for
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US the biggest importer of endangered African wildlife trophies
Cape Town - The United States remains the biggest importer of trophy-hunted endangered animals in the world in spite of Donald Trump’s recent public comments overturning a decision by the US Department
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People in African cities are taking charge of their water supplies- and it’s working
The world has made tremendous progress in bridging the gap between water supply and demand. But there’s a long way still to go. In a 2017 joint monitoring report UNICEF and the World Health Organisation
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Sonsoddo festers as successive waste management projects fail
Margao: When the state-of-the-art solid waste management plant at Sonsoddo managed by Fomento Green became operational in December 2012, it was believed that the ordeal of the residents of the vicinity,
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UNICEF: Morocco Has Highest Neonatal Deaths in Maghreb
Rabat – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has unveiled a new report about the troubling issue of newborn deaths around the world on February 20. 2.6 million babies die before turning one month
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UCT student wins national award for waterless urinals project
Cape Town - The Western Cape's water woes have proved to be an unexpected opportunity for University of Cape Town (UCT) Civil Engineering graduate Tinashe Chipako to show off his research project on waterless
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Illegal rosewood harvesting is polluting water bodies- Kansangbata
There is the need to intensify the fight against illegal rosewood harvesting in the three northern regions as it is destroying the few forests and polluting water bodies. The erratic rainfall pattern
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Rationing system put in place: No water for 600 families in Nainital
NAINITAL: A water rationing system implemented in January to save Naini lake – the main source of water for Nainital – has left around 600 families in the lake town almost without water. Ever since
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Congo approves logging near carbon-rich peatlands
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congo’s environment ministry said on Tuesday it had reinstated thousands of square kilometers of logging concessions in its equatorial forests, a move environmentalists fear could
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Drought-ravaged provinces could get up to R6bn in relief, Malusi Gigaba says in budget speech
Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba cracked opened a R6bn war chest to assist areas in the country hardest hit by drought, particularly the Western Cape and Cape Town. The R6bn is part of an augmentation
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HC seeks checklist on illegal mining
High Court today directed the authorities of Geology and Mining to report the court about the check list so that to ensure the proper safety of mining places as also the individuals. The Division Bench