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Former UN Secretarary General/AIDS for Africa, Stephen Lewis has taken issues with anti-homosexuality Private Member’s Bill introduced into the parliament of Uganda, and now proceeding through the normal legislative process, puts the Commonwealth’s legitimacy and integrity to the test, lambasting President Yoweri Museveni, current chair of the Commonwealth Heads of Governments, in the process.

At a time when electronic waste dumping is becoming a teething problem in developing countries, African leaders have been urged to carefully vet donor aid channeled into the continent as Information Communication Technology.

The Clinton Foundation has donated to the Holy Family Center (Nazareth Hospital), in Kiambu District and ARVs that caters for children's ARVs.

Actors, singers, athletes and other celebrities from around the world including Kenya, joined the push for action against extreme poverty, hunger and disease, last Friday even as the World Bank lauded sub-Saharan African countries for making milestones towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which include targets for major reductions in mother and child deaths by 2015.
The Cassava Value Chain Development Project has inaugurated two additional processing centers in Lanta and Adjahonmey in Benin Republic, bringing the total number of processing centers in that country under the project to four, thanks to the Netherlands–based Common Fund for Commodities (CFC)—the initiator and financier of the project.
In the face of warming ocean waters due to climate change, some coral reefs off East Africa are demonstrating unusual resiliency. Supporting the well-being of over half the world's population collectively, these reefs however are compromised by management practices that fail to recognize ecosystem interconnections, according to renowned experts who today published a practical guide for improving marine protection.

The fight against tuberculosis is far from being won because of HIV and because of extreme drug-resistant TB(XDR-TB)cases recently recorded in Kenya.

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