UN now calls for Review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Processes, Procedures
Written by Naftali Mwaura   
Thursday, 11 March 2010

In a move aimed at addressing concerns by climate change skeptics, the United Nations Secretary General and the Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) announced Wednesday that they have asked the  InterAcademy Council (IAC) to conduct an independent review of the IPCC’s processes and procedures to further strengthen the quality of the Panel’s reports on climate change. 

 
Arctic Seed Vault Inventory Passes Half-Million
Written by Kevin Wafula   
Thursday, 11 March 2010
Svalbard “Doomsday” Global Seed Vault has recently just marked its second anniversary, but as testimony to its importance, the vault is receiving this week thousands of new seeds that will push its collection to more than half a million unique samples, making it the most diverse assemblage of crop diversity ever amassed anywhere in the world.
 
EAC Council Ministers Resolve to Address Climate Change, Food Security
Written by Suleiman Mbatiah   
Wednesday, 10 March 2010

Eliminating hunger and ensuring sustainable food security within the region is a necessary step towards poverty eradication, an East African Community council was told in Kisumu, Kenya.

 
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South African health care professionals are endangering the health of the country’s large foreign population by routinely denying health care and treatment to thousands of asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Monday. South Africa’s foreign-born residents, who are particularly vulnerable to disease and injury, face xenophobic violence as well as systematic discrimination in obtaining basic care.

In a hurried move aimed at stemming citizens shying away from use of condoms, heads of two government agencies on AIDS and quality assurance have declared that Kenya has mopped up all leaky condoms from the shelves and acquired new machines that would assure safety and standards on available condoms.

The heights and weights of preschool children whose diets included quality protein maize (QPM) as their main starchy staple increased more than 20% faster than those of children who ate conventional maize, according to a recent study in rural Ethiopia on the nutritional benefits of QPM and its acceptance as a food.

Condom use among the Samburu, a pastoralist community of Kenya’s Rift Valley Province still remains low and a great concern.

After one of the most wide-ranging and painstaking exercises ever undertaken across the United Nations system, the organization today announced its greenhouse gas footprint as part of a first step to manage these emissions down.

The president said Thursday that he will never again appoint a secretary of state for Agriculture and has finally taken charge of the portfolio.

Directly Observed Treatment Surveillence, DOTS alone is insufficient to control TB in high HIV prevalence a setting, a Tanzanian expert has said.

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