Care for animals key to successful livestock production
Written by Anthony Aisi and Erick Akasa   
Saturday, 31 July 2010

In a world food prize laureate seminar organized by International Livestock research Institute on Friday, the Heifer International president and the world food prize laureate winner Jo Luck said success of livestock production in Kenya and the sub-Saharan African countries at large depends on people knowing how to care for animals.

 
WFP promises to double food purchases from rural Ugandan village
Written by Anthony Aisi   
Saturday, 31 July 2010

WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran pledged at the weekend to double the amount of food that the organization buys from women farmers in the Millennium Village of Ruhiira, Uganda where a strategic, integrated approach to rural development is already changing lives.

 
AU to mobile resources for child and maternal health, promise to review Abuja declaration
Written by Henry Neondo   
Friday, 30 July 2010

Africa’s Heads of State 15th AU Summit held in Kampala, Uganda, from 19 to 27 July adopted actions to be undertaken in various Member State, in particular the actions aimed at attaining the MDGs 4, 5 and 6, mobilisation of adequate resources for integrated health programmes up to 15% of national budgets, the sharing of best practices within regions, regular evaluation and reporting of progress achieved by Member State.

 
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The United Nations Environment Programme has announced Maria Kassabian, 10 years old from Abuja, Nigeria emerges as the regional winner in the 17th Children Global Painting Competition

Ethiopia together with Pakistan and Portugal are the latest countries to pledge to promote low-carbon, green growth by joining the Climate Neutral Network (CN Net) – an initiative led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to promote global action to de-carbonize our economies and societies.

The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) warned that Africa faces a “dramatic” shortage of physicians by the year 2015, according to a new study that has just been made public.

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Beginning January 1, 2009, all East African countries will be among 14 other countries that will begin using a Web-based tool for tracking blood safety developed between a partnership between the Georgia Tech College of Computing and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

As of 27 December 2009, worldwide more than 208 countries and overseas territories or communities have reported laboratory confirmed cases of pandemic influenza H1N1 2009, including at least 12220 deaths.

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.

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