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Deforestation Costing Kenyan Economy Millions of Dollars Each Year and Increasing Water Shortage Risk, UNEP and Kenya Forest Service Report Finds / Services from Kenya’s Water Towers Underpin Many Sectors of Economy

NAIROBI, Kenya, November 5, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ – Deforestation deprived Kenya’s economy of 5.8 billion shillings ($US 68 million) in 2010 and 6.6 billion shillings in 2009, far outstripping the roughly 1.3 billion shillings injected from forestry and logging each year, according to a joint Kenya Forest Service (KFS) and UN Environment Programme (UNEP) […]

Fight on Malaria rages in MALAWI

  By Rabecca Chimjeka Fight on Malaria rages in Malawi (Microsoft Word)   Malaria remains a threat and a major cause of deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa and Malawi in particular, confirms  the country’s 2010 Demographic and Health Survey. Malawi government, through the Ministry of Health is implementing a five year called  Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) […]