tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123257482024-03-07T08:21:06.593+03:00 Africa Science News ServiceBiotechnology, Agriculture, Health, Environment, and Technology news coverage from events in, about and on Africa. My PhD Safarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16724027188229960064noreply@blogger.comBlogger487125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12325748.post-78754287167706772082023-09-29T05:45:00.001+03:002023-09-29T05:45:20.743+03:00Climate Justice Torch These are pictorial presentations of the #ClimateJusticeTorch that was flagged off from Gabon in August 2022 and ended at COP27 in Sharma El Sheikh in Egypt.My PhD Safarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16724027188229960064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12325748.post-32670212935568325022023-01-26T13:06:00.002+03:002023-01-26T13:06:34.021+03:00IMF boss in Kigali to discuss climate change financing for EA International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva will on Wednesday join a roundtable discussion on climate change financing with East African finance ministers and governors of central banks in Kigali, Rwanda.Ms Georgieva was expected to arrive in Kigali on Tuesday evening from Zambia.Her visit to Rwanda comes a few weeks after her board approved $319 million in My PhD Safarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16724027188229960064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12325748.post-53709990217004089432023-01-26T13:04:00.000+03:002023-01-26T13:04:04.259+03:00Why communities should be empowered through grasstoot environmental education The
African Coalition of Communities Responsive for Climate Change has urged the
African governments to roll out massive education programmes aimed at making
grassroots communities involved in conservation efforts.
In
a statement released ahead of World Environmental Education Day today January
26, the Executive Advisory at the ACCRCC said as things stand, conservation
programmes are mostly My PhD Safarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16724027188229960064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12325748.post-39132022475672163102018-10-05T10:21:00.002+03:002018-10-05T10:22:08.769+03:00Climate Change: PACJA to host Governors Conference
The Council of Governors (CoG), the County Assemblies Forum (CAF), the Pan Africa Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), among other partners, are meeting in one-day National Conference in Nairobi, Kenya to take stock on the progress so far reached in the implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions NDCs, with specific focus on the devolved units of governance.
The Conference willMy PhD Safarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16724027188229960064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12325748.post-52130223275627553832016-10-12T15:55:00.001+03:002016-10-12T15:55:40.886+03:00Adolescent girls ‘Takeover’ to Commemorate 2016 International Day of the Girl child
By Erick Akasa
Child
rights organisation Plan International supported girls across the world to
Stage
a historic “takeover” in observance of the International Day of the Girl. From
Kenya to
Canada,
leading figures in political economic and social spheres stepped aside for
girls to take charge.
By occupying spaces and places where
they are rarely seen or heard, girls are calling on My PhD Safarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16724027188229960064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12325748.post-80672745441976431152016-08-18T18:37:00.004+03:002016-08-18T18:38:18.975+03:00Kenya’s plan for CITES COP17 in South Africa revealed
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Hon. Joyce lay, Jackline Mwende and her
parents receive the support from “Merck more than a Mother”
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offer crucial support to Africa’s development efforts with the aim of enabling
the African continent to nurture cutting-edge science and My PhD Safarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16724027188229960064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12325748.post-38169551906814168692016-07-29T09:10:00.003+03:002016-07-29T09:10:44.454+03:00Mobile labs deliver faster yellow fever test results
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ShareRasha Kelej , is the convener of this campaign. She is the
Chief Social Officer (CSO) and Vice-President of Merck Healthcare . She wishes
to raise awareness about discrimination, stigma and ostracism women My PhD Safarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16724027188229960064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12325748.post-2969891539765186692016-06-28T19:08:00.000+03:002016-06-28T19:08:31.559+03:00Biofortification Pioneers Win 2016 World Food Prize For Fight Against Malnutrition
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A new initiative to combat
desertification, rehabilitate degraded land and mitigate the effects of drought
was on Friday launched by China and the UN My PhD Safarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16724027188229960064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12325748.post-11325902254205229642016-06-14T15:10:00.000+03:002016-06-14T15:10:02.611+03:00UWA, Conservation Partners Strengthen Law Enforcement Response to Wildlife Crime
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A make or break moment in negotiations over a United Nations Political Declaration, set for adoption during the High Level Meeting on HIV starting June 8 in New York, a coalition of advocacy organizations from around the world have called on governments of the United States, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, South Africa, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, Netherlands (and other members of the My PhD Safarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16724027188229960064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12325748.post-31542176435913119912016-06-07T09:07:00.000+03:002016-06-07T09:07:05.407+03:00Global meeting of mayors on ending AIDS in cities holds in New York
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