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Farming in any area of the world has risks, but it is certainly a more risky enterprise in Sub-Saharan Africa, whose soils suffer from nutrient deficiency and rainfall is heavily unpredicted, Dr. Daniel Mataruka, executive director, Africa Agricultural Technology Foundation said at the second anniversary marking the Water Efficient Maize for Africa project (WEMA) on Monday.

Tanzania’s teaching and referral hospital, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) is appealing for funding to help conduct research.

Mobile network operators in Kenya will have to wait for two more months before they can pass the benefits of lower and reviewed interconnection tariffs to their subscribers. This follows the pushing forward of the date from the earlier schedule of July to September this year.

Doctors, clinicians, nutritionists and care givers have raised alarm over poor response by 410, 000 people living with HIV/Aids to ARVs due to hunger. 

Canadian researchers have identified protein biomarkers that may let doctors detect earlier two crippling malaria variations – one that develops in the placenta of pregnant women affecting countless unborn children, the other, cerebral malaria, that develops in the brain's blood vessels – malaria's most deadly form.

On  March 24 1882, Robert Koch, a German physician and scientist, discovered Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB). Since then, the world has been marking the day as the World's TB Day and a century later today, TB is still posing a challenge, thanks to the “unholy marriage” with the HIV and AIDS