MESHA 2025 Annual Report: Celebrating science journalism across Africa
By Bernard Morara | morara@meshascience.org The Media for Environment, Science, Health and Agriculture in Kenya (MESHA) has published its 2025 Annual Report that has been hailed as a true testimony…
Africa’s jeopardy, climate, gender and the superbug crisis
By Jane M. Mwanza | mezamwanza.meza@gmail.com As the world concluded the observance of World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week (WAAW), held from November 18 24, 2025, the Kenya Medical and Research…
Sayansi Magazine – Edition 43
Explore how climate change is reshaping public health across Africa in this issue of Sayansi Magazine. From rising heat and disease outbreaks to community resilience and innovation, these stories bring…
Stories about rising heat, disease outbreaks and shifting health systems
By Violet Otindo | violet@meshascience.org Stories of men and women tilling land and working on their farms for months only to be rewarded with crop failure or the entire farms…
Drought pushes women to climate-smart goat farming in Eastern Kenya
By Agatha Ngotho I angotho@gmail.com When the rains began to fail more often than they came, Doris Kanario knew she needed an income source that could survive drought as reliably…
Mongabay calls for more collaboration as it launches Swahili platform
By Beryl Bridgit Odhiambo | berylbridgitodhiambo@gmail.com Conservation news outlet Mongabay will on Tuesday March 10, 2026 launch its Swahili platform; which will serve the more than 200 million Swahili speakers…
Gender gaps could take over 100 years to close – Experts
By Aghan Daniel | aghan@meshascience.org As the world marks the International Women’s Day today, Sunday, March 8, 2026 a recent report on the status of women in agrifood systems in…
Farming enabled me to educate my children – agrifood champion
By Christine Ochogo | christawine@yahoo.com “I was born into a family of farmers and at the tender age of 12 years, I began helping my father in our village farm. It…
Researcher: Household chores stifle women’s ability to engage in agricultural production
By Beryl Bridgit Odhiambo | berylbridgitodhaiambo@gmail.com Unpaid care and domestic responsibilities hinder women’s participation in agriculture, a researcher has said. While addressing participants at this years International Women’s Day celebration,…
Kenya’s women-led climate initiative becomes globally recognised study site
By Ruth Keah | rkeahkadide@gmail.com When three women groups in Gazi village, Kwale County, coastal part of Kenya, came together to start a project of conserving mangroves by making it…
