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Over the last two decades, stakeholders in agro-biotechnology have strived to hammer benefits farmers stand to get from biotechnology. So much that as a result ----interests has not only been created among farmers, but that the number of students interested in studying biotechnology has also risen. Today, at least four public universities in Kenya are offering either biotechnology courses or related ones with rising number of students every year.

A forensic psychiatrist said last week said Tanzania needs to come up with a policy on mental health in prisons. He said this as he revealed that about one-third of inmates in Tanzanian jails are mentally ill.

Large numbers of Kenyan churches are now integrating the youth in their Sunday programs in a move that is aimed to reduce drug abuse, crime and HIV prevalence in neighborhoods.

A human rights group has accused the Kenyan government of abandoning AIDS millions of children orphaned by the Aids epidemic, and exposing them to widespread abuse and doing very little in improving their welfare.

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.

When countries began approving Genetically Modified crops in 1990s, nobody expected the technology would be rejected in Africa, a continent most hit by food insecurity due partly to non-performing agricultural sector. The worry then was that the mostly poor African farmers, used to recycling traditional seed crops, would find it hard obtaining valuable new technology due to cost or patent restrictions.

The National Systems of innovation in developing countries, particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa lack cohesion and are thus not able to contribute effectively to wealth creation.