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Representatives of parliaments from 13 countries across Africa will attend a workshop in Kampala, Uganda next week to develop the skills needed to inform Parliamentarians about the scientific aspects of the issues they face in making policy decisions.

Low milk yield in the Northern region of Tanzania could hamper a Brookside dairy project in Arusha from taking off.

Tanzania’s Minister for Health and Social Welfare Prof David Mwakyusa has reaffirmed his government’s determination to step up efforts aimed at combating tuberculosis and HIV/Aids.

Up to 30 percent of patients classified as TB drug resistant in South Africa cure on first line drugs, Prof Paul van Helden of the University of Stellenbosch’s DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical TB Research has said.

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.