By Siddharth Chatterjee NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 16 2020 (IPS) - The number of coronavirus cases in Kenya has jumped to three after the government confirmed two more cases. President Uhuru Kenyatta has...
By Zofeen Ebrahim Dr. Rana Muhammad Safdar, the coordinator for Pakistan’s National Emergency Operations Centre for Polio Eradication, has sleepless nights thinking about what needs to be done for...
By Sahle-Work Zewde, President of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia; and Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women UNITED NATIONS, Mar 3 2020 (IPS)- Twenty-five years ago,...
By Miriam Gathigah NAIROBI, Mar 6 2020 (IPS) - Pokot girls are expected to face the knife stark naked and with courage. To inspire confidence, their fathers sit a few metres away from them with a...
NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 28 2020- From 26 February to 28 February 2020, the United Nations in Kenya supported a joint visit to the Frontier Counties of Kenya. The objective of this mission was to allow...
By Mantoe Phakathi In the southern African nation of Eswatini, women, who already have too many household chores, have had to spend many hours for days on end in the fields, tilling and weeding the...
By Emely Mwale Emely Mwale is Assistant Country Manager at HarvestPlus LUSAKA, Zambia, Feb 27 2020 (IPS) - The Mutwales farm a small plot of land in the camp, growing primarily cassava and maize for...
NAIROBI, Feb 27 2020 (IPS)- Grief over the loss of a child poses a threat to public health in Sub-Saharan Africa, as nearly two-thirds of mothers in some countries suffer the death of at least one...
Busani Bafana NTERANYA SANGINGA, scientifique éminent et directeur général de l’Institut international d’agriculture tropicale (IITA), s’entretient avec Busani Bafana, correspondant d’IPS, sur la...
By Fairuz Ahmed NEW YORK, Feb 17 2020 (IPS) - For any riverine country, the state of the water body around big cities and conditions of major rivers hold a leadership position in the overall climate...