Press Release:Kenya Making Progress in Uptake of Disease Resistant Cassava Varieties
Nairobi, Kenya: 5th July, 2021- In a bid to improve cassava varieties in Kenya, researchers at the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO)...
Press Release on Noma Disease
Strides in Push to Include Noma in WHO list of Neglected Tropical Diseases
Nairobi, 3rd March 2023- Tremendous progress has been made in the push...
Press Release : Pesticides’ Ban Threatens Kenya’s Food Security, Science Based Approach Needed
Nairobi, 18 January 2022-If Kenya aligns with European Union (EU)’s pesticides rule by withdrawing about 262 pesticide molecules from the market as proposed by...
Press Release: Kenya Should not Regulate Genome-edited Crops as Genetically Modified Crops, Expert...
Naivasha, 31st August, 2021-With the increase in population and demands for more food, African countries are looking for ways of boosting food production. This...
GMO Misinformation Highest in Africa Media, New Study Shows
Nairobi, 25th November, 2022- A research paper released by The Alliance for Science shows that Africa produced the highest proportion of misinformation on Genetically...
Press Release: Omicron Unlikely to cause Severe Illness among Vaccinated People
December 7, 2021, Nairobi, Kenya- Even though available evidence shows that Omicron variant is more transmissible compared to the deadly Delta variant, it is...
Press Release:Low Uptake, Lack of Diversity among Challenges Ailing the African Seed Industry
Nairobi, 1 October 2021- Though improved seeds can deliver state of the art technology to farmers: higher yields, diseases and pest resistance, climate change...
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The Lancet: First continent-wide analysis confirms Africa’s second COVID-19 wave was more severe than its first
**Country-level data available in the article**
Almost 3 million COVID-19...
WHO: Africa ‘far from ready’ to deliver COVID-19 vaccines
As Europe and America begin to roll out a mass COVID-19 vaccination effort to prevent the continuous spread of the novel coronavirus, a World...
Press Release:Survey shows rise in vaccine hesitancy in Ghana
Accra, July 23, 2021: Research led by the University of Southampton into the uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine in Ghana, West Africa has concluded...