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Pamoja Mtaani Wins Award + Features at Games for Health 2009

ukwelii wrote 1 hour ago: This post is long overdue, but earlier this year, Pamoja Mtaani - a videogame I co-wrote and consult … more →

Tags: Happenings, Africa, Awareness, Games for change, Games for Health, Gaming, Global Business Coalition, HIV / AIDS, Kenya

Business hubs for dairy farmers

Peter Ballantyne wrote 5 hours ago: Selling milk from dairy cows and goats can be an excellent business for small-scale farmers. Recentl … more →

Tags: ILRI, MarketOpps, Markets, agfax, dairying, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda

Grizzlies Ship 3,000 Iverson Jerseys to Tanzania

Slav wrote 18 hours ago: I first found out about this from a Facebook update from a friend who works at ABC News’s inve … more →

Tags: Allen Iverson, Tanzania, NBA, Memphis Grizzlies, hasheem thabeet, uconn, bongo

If words were food, nobody would go hungry

ILRI Communications wrote 1 day ago: Investment in agriculture is soaring. So, worryingly, is distrust of markets and trade At the height … more →

Tags: Agriculture, dairying, ILRI, Kenya, Milk

Shopping to the well

Claudia Giampietri wrote 2 days ago: Women went shopping to the well… Fetching water is one of women’s chores and a bicycle d … more →

Tags: My Pictures, fetching water, Ugandan women, womens chores

Journalists experience livestock science in action in Kenya's South Rift valley

Peter Ballantyne wrote 3 days ago: A ’science safari’ to the South Rift valley has enabled African journalists to get first … more →

Tags: knowledge information, Africa, Agriculture, Livestock, Kenya, Journalism, reporting science, Wrenmedia

Rainy clouds3 comments

Claudia Giampietri wrote 3 days ago: It is rainy season in Uganda and these clouds in Amuru district (northern Uganda) are about to pour … more →

Tags: My Pictures, rainy clouds, rainy season, Ugandan sky

U.S. Africa Command, Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa Team Up During Mauritius Oil Spill Workshop - US AFRICOM News

sustainabilitystrawman wrote 3 days ago: This is a very intersting news story from the U.S. Africa Command about how they teamed up with 35 s … more →

Tags: Economic, Environmental, news and events, Public sector, U.S. Military, environmental security, preparedness, U.S. Africa Command, mauritius

Using mobile phones to monitor cattle disease

Peter Ballantyne wrote 4 days ago: In October, the London International Development Centre (LIDC) organised a workshop to discuss the … more →

Tags: Diseases, knowledge information, Africa, health, Livestock, cattle, Tanzania, ECF, Zanzibar

A day in the life of livestock science in Africa: The journalists' view

Peter Ballantyne wrote 4 days ago: Many agricultural science reporters don’t have first hand experience of livestock science. But … more →

Tags: knowledge information, Africa, Research, Livestock, Kenya, Journalism, Wrenmedia, Reporting

Infighting Everywhere1 comment

Jim wrote 6 days ago: Local: You can see it on the local news in Cowpens, five in the morning til twelve at night. Cops ch … more →

Tags: cowpens, Somalia, US Politics, INTERNATIONAL, Sufi, wahaabi, Islam, Columbus, Ohio

Oxford Joins With Aga Khan University, Nairobi...

paderbornersj wrote 6 days ago: In A Fetal And Newborn Growth Research Study Coastweek — The University of Oxford has collabor … more →

Tags: Aga Khan University, Kenya, aga khan health, “Intergrowth - 21st”, Gynaecology

mosquito net + fire...4 comments

thera wrote 1 week ago: the story: i seriously hate mosquitos. frankly, i think they are one of the worst creations on the e … more →

Tags: Expats, Fire, lies, mosquito net on fire, mosquito nets, mosquito nets aflame, mosquito nets on fire, mosquitos, Tall Tales

Ugandan Vice President speaks at the Ismaili Centre, Burnaby

paderbornersj wrote 1 week ago: Gathered at the Ismaili Centre, Burnaby (L to R): His Excellency George Abola, High Commissioner for … more →

Tags: ismailis, Bujagali, Diversity, Canada, Civil Society, Uganda, Aga Khan Development Network, democracy, poverty alleviation

mtDNA - My Mom's DNA Migration Story3 comments

migrationstoriesofnigerianigbo wrote 1 week ago: Through DNA testing, I learned that my mtDNA haplogroup is L1b. Positions 16126C,16187T, 16189C, 162 … more →

Tags: mtDNA, Igbo, ERI, NRI, maternal, L, L1B, L1C, l0

Pastoralists enter safety zone with insurance cover

ILRI Communications wrote 1 week ago: Failure to put in place mechanisms for compensating pastoralists in case of livstock losses is partl … more →

Tags: Livestock Systems, Agriculture, ILRI, Livestock, Kenya, cattle, pastoralists

Food security in East Africa is 'within reach'

ILRI Communications wrote 1 week ago: East Africa will face both crop gains and losses as a result of climate change, but food security is … more →

Tags: Agriculture, Food Security, ILRI, Livestock, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda

Will you at least pray?

time2stand wrote 1 week ago:      For the last month or so I have been thinking about how to present and introduce you to a new f … more →

Tags: 1 John, Abortion, Bible Study, christian, Christian Book, Christian Persecution, Forgiveness, free book give a way, General

Convolvulaceae, Ipomoea aquatica, water spinach, bwere-mlungu (Chonyl), balanbal (Somali), chamarirobia (Sanya)

anthromes wrote 1 week ago: The prostrate, much-branched Ipomoea aquatica is a plant associated with wetlands, as the latin spec … more →

Tags: Edible, Flora, Leaves, Southeast Asia, Africa, Agroforestry, animal fodder, Aquaculture, China


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