By Wayne Visser*
Last week, I was hosted by Ufadhili Trust to deliver a 2 day workshop on CSR in Nairobi, Kenya. As I was last in Kenya 20 years ago when I attended an AIESEC African Leadership Development Seminar, it was wonderful to return and compare my impressions.
The biggest changes have [...]

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Below is a roundup of news from or about Sub-Saharan Africa for the period: 31 December 2009–13 January 2010, as compiled by the Science and Development Network (Scidev).
Tanzanian text message project monitors antimalarial stocks
A mobile phone initiative has been launched to increase the availability of antimalarials in remote areas of Tanzania. SMS for Life — [...]

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Kenya’s Nobel laureate and environmentalist, Wangari Maathai, has sent a strong message to her country’s political class urging that forest conservation was important to reclaiming depleted resources.
Protagonists in the east African nation’s fragile coalition government have taken divergent positions on a symbolic tree planting exercise on Friday that was to have been led by president [...]

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Rachel Shebesh, a parliamentarian in the Republic of Kenya and chair of the African Parliamentarian Initiative for Climate Risk Reduction, has been appointed as the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction champion for disaster risk reduction in Africa.
The appointed was made this week during the launch of the Black and Green, Ready to Lead campaign [...]

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By Aaron Tesfaye*
As the world’s leaders meet in Copenhagen, Denmark on 7 December 2009, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, things are already starting to look bleak for the poorest of the poor on the planet. They are the pastoralists of Africa.
Many eke out a living in the Sahel, a semi-desert belt that stretches [...]

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