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Kenya legislated the Biosafety Act 2009 to govern research and utilization of modern biotechnology. This legislation came at an ideal time when emerging issues like food security, climate change, tourism development, the Mau forest crisis among other issues were being explored. One of the areas this technology could be handy in a holistic approach is in the reclamation of the Mau forest.

Kenya’s environmental regulator has said that the country has no policy to control sand harvesting, which depletes water catchment areas.

Africa’s market for milk, meat and staple food crops such as maize, banana, sorghum, rice and millet stands at over $150 billion a year which is more than what it fetches from pet cash crops like coffee, tea and flowers.

The Masai are one of the indigenous pastoralist tribes of Kenya and inhabit the Southern parts of the Great Rift Valley province. Age-old practices like sharing women among morans of the same age set and living together in clusters could be driving the community towards the brink---thanks to TB and HIV.

Madagascar is reporting over 70 deaths, more than 239,000 people affected and 148,000 without shelter following Cyclones Fame and Ivan.

A Tanzanian dairy expert has urged the government to devise strategies that would to halt losses in the dairy industry.saying that the industry was capable of improving the country's income.

Countries that carry out stringent donor selection and effective anti-gen HIV antibody screening reduce risk of transfusion-transmitted HIV in Kenya. This success should encourage other countries in sub-Saharan Africa to fully adopt the WHO Aide-mémoire strategies (introduced in 2002) for blood safety and to provide leadership and commit resources to strengthen their national blood transfusion services without necessarily opting for more expensive pooled nucleic acid testing (NAT).