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Ugandan scientists have developed new cotton varieties to tame jassids, the notorious cotton pest which has been causing havoc in the 35 cotton growing districts.

Tanzanian government has begun investigating reports that a number of game hunting companies are involved in massive poaching activities that threaten the country’s wildlife population.

African governments have been castigated for their slow pace of domesticating international conventions that could end the human rights abuses fuelling the spread of HIV. Activists now say unless action is speeded up, little progress will be made towards addressing the global epidemic.

A vaccine against East Coast Fever which was developed by the Nairobi-based International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has now been given full, legal registration in Tanzania and Kenya. This opens the way for the scaling up of vaccine production and distribution in these countries, so that the vaccine becomes accessible and affordable for poor people.

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.

The Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa has began research on problems associated with sorghum growing in Uganda.

UK government has announced a £6 billion on improving health systems and services, in poor countries up to 2015 while an African NGO blasts Japan’s lackdaisaical approach on the AIDS issue in Africa.