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Exxon Mobil Corporation announced today a $3.5-million grant to the Global Health Group at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), to expand its core support for an unprecedented malaria elimination effort in southern Africa.

Hundreds of millions of dollars have been wasted on rural water projects in Africa, threatening the health and livelihoods of millions of vulnerable people according to a forthcoming briefing paper by the International Institute for Environment and Development. The announcement comes ahead of the UN’s World Water Day (22 March). 

A new survey released recently in Geneva by the International Union Against Cancer found that knowledge about cancer facts, including the risks from smoking, are lacking in low-income countries. The two low-income countries interviewed were Kenya and Nigeria.

Researchers in Kenya have indicated that come May this year there will be inadequate grain supply fueling another round of food prices due to high demand and low supply of food. Scientists are however optimistic that modern biotechnology could be a great solution to the existing problem.

A team of two youths from Germany are set to go on a cycle tour across Eastern and Southern Africa beginning today to highlight on the dangers Africa faces from climate change.

Tanzania National Parks Authority (Tanapa) has directed all chief park wardens to begin treating all East African residents intending to discover nature into  the country’s national game sanctuaries equally.