Reboot Climate Action, UN Report Urges | Science Africa
Sep 19, 2024 · State of climate science: the need for urgent and ambitious climate action. Human-caused climate change has resulted in widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere. The year 2023 was the warmest on record by a large margin, with widespread extreme weather. This trend continued in the first half of 2024.
Kenya: World’s first Malaria Vaccine Rollout Successful despite ...
Dec 5, 2020 · By HENRY OWINO (Senior Science Correspondent) Citizens across Kenya have positively embraced the world’s first malaria vaccine, despite some skepticism around its efficacy, nagging safety concerns among the communities receiving it and the challenge of bad weather and the Covid-19 pandemic.
Innovative Ubuntu-Afya Kiosks Transforming Primary Health Care …
1 day ago · Silprine Wanjoro brings her child to the hospital for vaccination. Located near Sena Beach on the 65-square-kilometer Mfangano Island, this center has undeniably enhanced access to primary healthcare, including maternal and newborn care services. Popularly known as Ubuntu-Afya Kiosks, these community hospitals, including the one in Mfangano ...
High Temperatures, Enhanced Rainfall Expected in Eastern Africa
Oct 1, 2024 · In addition to the rainfall predictions, ICPAC’s weather outlook also includes warnings of warmer-than-usual temperatures across the greater Horn of Africa in the next seven days. High temperatures exceeding 32 degrees Celsius are expected over central to eastern parts of Sudan and north-eastern Ethiopia, raising concerns about heat stress ...
Adoption of Hybrid Seed Varieties Transforming Kenya’s Arid …
Aug 1, 2024 · The Horn of Africa, an arid and semi-arid region (ASAL) used to have heavy rains and floods in the past but has since been replaced with prolonged drought. The region that includes North and Eastern Kenya has experienced below-average rainfall for three consecutive years hence affecting both long and short rains causing deaths of livestock ...
Build media capacity to improve SRHR outcomes in Africa
2 days ago · The media’s role in advancing SRHR is fundamental to respecting and fulfilling those human rights. This media training would help unpack subject matters within SRHR, giving journalists the much-needed direction on writing informative and educative SRHR stories while leveraging existing laws and policies that touch on those rights.
Global Report to Address Interlinked Environmental Crises
Oct 11, 2024 · The report produced over three years by 165 experts in 57 countries, is a first attempt to bridge the gaps and explore the interlinkages between these five critical environmental issues, offering solutions to address them as an integrated system rather than in isolation. The report “For us, this is the most ambitious science report we have ...
Africa Union’s Scientific Society Rallies States to Fight Climate ...
Nov 22, 2021 · By Daniel Otunge. As the worlds’ attention turns to the implementation of the Glasgow Agreement reached under the just concluded COP 26, one body established in 2019 by the Africa Union(AU)’s African Scientific Research …
Africa: Rainwater Could Help Address Urban Water Poverty
Sep 17, 2024 · Expectedly, urban population also increased by 500 million. By 2050, more than 1.3 billion people in Africa will be living in urban areas, according to UN estimates. According to the World Bank the increase in water demand in Africa between 2005 and 2030 is projected to be 283 percent—three times higher than almost any other region.
Biotech Crops Give Hope to Farmers | Science Africa
Aug 2, 2024 · By Gift Briton. The success stories of how biotechnology has enabled numerous African farmers to navigate farming challenges, brought about by climate change, pests and diseases, provide hope for the possibility of getting the continent back on track towards hunger and malnutrition elimination by 2030.