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With the recent endorsement by the World Health Organization (WHO) and scientists worldwide of adult male circumcision as an important strategy for HIV prevention, there is increased urgency to develop safe and cost-effective circumcision services. This is especially the case in Africa where HIV/AIDS continues to spread at an epidemic rate.

A new report released today at a major global forestry conference in Cameroon has found that deforestation rate in Africa---where the population density relative to forest area is close to the world’s average--- is four times the world’s average and that governments retain control over the world’s tropical forests’ globally, hindering action to stop deforestation and alleviate poverty among some of the world’s poorest rural peoples.

Algerian government has set aside more than 3.3 million hectares for cereal growing. This is an increase by up to 100, 000 ha the acreage for the 2009-2010 crop year.

From Kenya to Zambia, many sub-Saharan African countries are declaring reduced burden of malaria and are boldly declaring setting dates when they would be malaria-free nations. But a  recent article in the malaria journal cautions that data from based on health facility records that show reduced cases and deaths should be avoided or minimized as they illustrate several pitfalls.

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.

The World Health Organization has issued a recommendation Friday that rotavirus vaccination be included in all national immunization programmes in order to provide protection against a virus that is responsible for more than 500,000 diarrheal deaths and two million hospitalizations annually among children.

 Livestock could be critical to survival of African Agriculture as hotter weather and rainfall patterns shift, render close to one million square kilometers of marginal African farmland unable to support even a subsistence level of food crops, says new study