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Herbal medicine threatened with extinction

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For close to 30 years warning bells have sounded with regards to climate change, linking the effects to declining water levels, deteriorating food situation and reduced ice caps on mountainsFor close to 30 years warning bells have sounded with regards to climate change, linking the effects to declining water levels, deteriorating food situation and reduced ice caps on mountains. However, in all this, there has been very little touching on indigenous and traditional plants.

 

Decent Living Standards Elude Many Kenyans

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As the economic crunch continues to extend its tentacles across the globe, many Kenyans continue to sink deeper into poverty.

At only eighteen years of age, Magdalene Ndindi is already a mother of two, as a single parent with no formal employment, everyday is a struggle to make ends meet particularly with the constantly increasing economic inequalities where the poor have continued to become even poorer.

 

 

African Development Bank and Shelter Afrique sign USD 38 Million Financial Package

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Managing Director of Shelter Afrique, Mr Alassane Ba shakes  with Regional Director of ADB, Mrs Domina Buzigo. Photo by Victor Anyura
All it took was a few, deft strokes of the pen on paper, and a brief ceremony of great significance for African real estate developers and housing finance institutions was formalized in the form of a USD 38 million (KES 2.9 billion) financial package between the main principles at the African Development Bank (AfDB), Shelter-Afrique and the Embassy of Japan.