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Tanzanian authorities are reporting an outbreak of swine flu fever near a gold Mine. The outbreak is reportedly interfering with mining activities.

Poor irrigation methods, un predictable weather conditions and lack of funds to support agricultural sector are to blame for food shortage in Africa, Agriculture Permanent Secretary Dr. Romano Kiome has said.

For the umpteenth time, leading researchers across Africa are sending warning that the welfare of the people on the continent may deteriorate further if governments continue to pay leap service to funding research work.

Laxity and inefficiency has highly hit Kenya’s public hospitals---with patients in critical condition sleeping for hours on the waiting benches and corridors as they wait to be attended to by nurses and doctors.

Weak health systems in developing countries is one of the main obstacles to scaling up immunization and other life-saving interventions, and remain a key barrier to achieving the Millennium Development Goals, especially goals 4 and 5, which aim to reduce child and maternal mortality.  

The first ever leadership Forum on Tuberculosis has today called for effective treatment of those who are sick with TB and preventive therapy with the drug isoniazid on those without, warning that HIV/TB could evolve as a threat to global health security .

As Kenya grapples with a severe famine affecting an estimated 10 million people, urgent and innovative measures that includes scaling up access to quality hybrid seeds along side affordable fertilizers, are crucial.