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Director of knowledge management (DKM) with Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH), Dr Jim Yonazi facilitates during science technology and innovation (STI) forum, that was organised by COSTECH in Dar es Salaam. PHOTO: GERALD KITABU
Scientists and ICT experts have called on the government and academic institutions in particular...
country was losing up to 50 percent of agricultural produce during production and post-harvest.
Agriculture is the pillar for the prospective Tanzania industrial economy. The sector has...
IT was fun to passengers who were on a bus travelling to Morogoro from Dar es Salaam when this...
IT was fun to passengers who were on a bus travelling to Morogoro from Dar es Salaam when this...
Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.
If the Kenyan government is bluffing over its announcement that it will close Dadaab refugee...
A solar-powered mower on display with its inventors, Kenyan university engineering students Emma Masibo (left) and Lucy Bwire, with their lecturer Peter Wamalwa. The mower was exhibited during the 5th National Science Week that opened on May 16, 2016 in Nairobi. Young people are using innovation to protect the environment and make life easier.
Emma Masibo and Lucy Bwire have many things in common.They are both third-year mechanical...
Mulunesh Ena is part of an existing project supported by ICIPE, working with five other women in her community near Arba Minch to raise silkworms. She then sells the cocoons to a large cooperative in Arba Minch where she earns 70-100 Ethiopian birr per KG (approximately $3-5 US). On the racks in front of her, silkworms are eating castor leaves.
Addis Ababa. Beekeeping and silkworm farming have long been critical cogs of Ethiopian life,...
Representatives of Nyamwage village conflict resolution committee pose for a photograph
Recent years have seen many people having access to land both in urban as well as in rural areas...
The fact that scientific and medical advances have defused HIV/AIDS into becoming less...
A worker at the Vital Camel Milk Factory in Nanyuki, northern Kenya, handles bottles. The factory produces between 6,000-10,000 litres of camel milk per month but can't fulfil huge international orders as domestic demand is at least double its capacity.
ISIOLO, Kenya – It took 70 dairy cows dying from repeated droughts to convince Fatuma Yousef to...
A young mother
The lives of millions of girls giving birth under the age of 15 are at risk because they are...
The EU has already announced plans to revisit the beneficial ownership disclosure rules of the European anti-money laundering Directive in June.
As the political dust settles on the Panama papers and the anti-corruption summit, the focus is...