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In Kenya, at least 2.3 million bags of maize are this year rendered unfit for consumption and trade due to high toxic levels produced by a fungus. Scientists now try to prevent future contamination.

Kenya this year is again grappling with high levels of aflatoxin contamination that has rendered at least 2.3 million bags of maize unfit for human and livestock consumption and trade, to the disma

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HARARE – Brazil’s Samba Boys brought joy to long-suffering Zimbabwe, causing euphoria on the streets despite inflicting defeat on the home side in a World Cup warm-up match.

Zimbabwe has been tormented by a decade of economic collapse, political crisis, violence and isolation and good news has been rare. The once buoyant tourism industry has collapsed.

Until this week its dream of some ben

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KAMPALA – South Africa’s Samantha Rogers scooped the CNN/Multichoice African Journalist award for 2010 for her story focusing on plights of albinos in Tanzania. Samantha works with South Africa’s e.tv. This was Samantha’s second time to win this ward. She first won it in 2001.

The wards giving ceremony held in Uganda over the weekend were presided over by Uganda’s President Yoweri Kaguta Musev

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AFRICAN leaders need to utilize the immense wealth of natural resources on the continent to improve the lives of their people.

The remarks were given by former Secretary General of the then Organization of African Unity (OAU), now known as African Union, Dr Salim Ahmed Salim in New York yesterday. Dr Salim was giving a key note address at the occasion to mark Africa Vision awards. The awards