Kenyans will today (Saturday September 10) pay tribute to a distinguished peace maker from the North Eastern Province, Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, who tragically died recently.

To commemorate her work and pay tribute to her peace-making and conflict resolution achievements, there will be a peace walk and tree planting at Karura Forest’s new Peace Garden for peacemakers from 11am.

With an estimated 1.8 million children aged between 5-17 years already out of school in South and Central Somalia, a rapid assessment conducted by the Education Cluster, in ten regions, warns this number could increase dramatically when schools open in September unless urgent action is taken.

An article on a big US-based agri-business company which intends to invest heavily in Tanzania has appeared in some US newspapers. The news has been received with mixed feelings by some agricultural experts and Tanzanians.

A new analysis of progress in the global fight against malaria finds a four-fold increase in annual funding for malaria research and development (R&D) in just 16 years—increasing from US$121 million in 1993 to US$612 million in 2009, with a particularly rapid increase since 2004. The funding has generated the strongest pipeline of malaria control and prevention products in history.

People across the world are changing what they eat because of the rising cost of food, according to a new global survey released today as part of Oxfam’s GROW campaign. 76 percent of respondents in Kenya said they have had to change their diet – the highest percentage recorded worldwide – with 79 percent blaming the rising price of food. 57 percent of Kenyans said they do not always have enough to eat.