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The number of users is likely to grow and there are health risks, so now is the time to act.
Cancer cases are on the rise in many parts of the continent.
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The rapid rise in cancer cases can be attributed to major societal and environmental changes that have occurred in the past few decades.
Kenyan health workers from port health services screen inbound travelers for temperatures at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
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Airport public health officials have got better at screening at ports of entry especially for international arrivals.
Lake Victoria.
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Lake Victoria’s past is key to understanding its future.
Mosquito eggs can remain viable for years even in dry conditions and hatch after heavy persistent rains.
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Prolonged rains increase the amount of stagnant water in the environment in which mosquitoes breed. This increases the risk of mosquito-borne diseases.
Flying desert locust.
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Countries should promote alternatives to pesticides and more carefully examine how to prevent insect invasions in the first place
Kenyan military troops and US marines carry out a joint military exercise in Manda Bay near the coastal town of Lamu.
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Declining US involvement in The Horn would leave a vacuum that others can fill.
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Most of Kenya’s biodiversity needs protecting outside protected areas in human‐dominated landscapes that are undergoing rapid change.
Front row: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez (C), Chilean Environment Minister and COP25 President Carolina Schmidt (3-L), UN General-Secretary Antonio Guterres (2-R), Argentine President Mauricio Macri (L), Spanish Minister for Ecological Transition Teresa Ribera (2-L) and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Patricia Espinosa (R) pose with other world leaders for a photo during the opening ceremony of the UN Climate Change Conference COP25 in Madrid, Spain.
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COP25 has come and gone, another missed opportunity to use women’s knowledge to mitigate climate change.
Many Kenyan students have had limited access to computers.
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Integrating technology into schools involves understanding the dynamic relationship between technology, how it’s used in the classroom and the content of the curriculum.
US service members practising water rescue techniques during a routine training exercise off the coast of Djibouti in 2007.
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Kenya and Djibouti are building a more secure and sustainable domestic maritime sector.
Digital traders will not escape taxation.
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Digital transactions generate massive amounts of revenue and the Kenyan government wants to ensure that online traders pay their fair share of taxes.
Coding can enhance children’s creativity and their understanding of mathematics.
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Coding is beneficial to children, irrespective of their career path later on in life.
Fledgling mangroves in Philippines.
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Promising to plant 100m trees a year is one thing; making them grow can be quite another.
HIV-infected and exposed children are vulnerable to vaccine-preventable diseases.
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Effective health care interventions are very important for sub-Saharan Africa because the region has a high burden of vaccine-preventable diseases.
Cyber insecurity is a threat to Africa’s digital economy.
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Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda are at the forefront of the war against cyber criminals.
Best-selling Nigerian novelist and literary superstar Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
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African literary prizes are slowly becoming more relevant and richer, thanks to writers organising on the continent.
Close-up of Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus producer of aflatoxins in corn.
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Most of the maize consumed in Kenya is never even tested for aflatoxin.
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Most women feel they are unable to ask health professionals questions. And only half were consistently asked if they had questions.
As smartphone uptake and connectivity grows in Africa, so does the often unhealthy trend of young people betting on sports using their phones.