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September 09, 2019
Drones Offer Ghana's Farmers Hope of Better Yields - and Income

Smallholder farmers in Ghana are adopting drone technology for crop surveillance in a bid to increase yields and incomes
September 09, 2019
Farmers in Ghana Using Drones for Pest, Disease Surveillance

Small-scale farmers in Ghana are using drones for crop surveillance in a bid to increase yields and incomes. Farmers’ cooperatives embrace the technology as a step toward efficiency. Some however, feel the technology is too expensive and may shut out poor farmers. Sarah Kimani has the story from Accra.
September 09, 2019
Farmers in Ghana Using Drones for Pest, Disease Surveillance

Small-scale farmers in Ghana are using drones for crop surveillance in a bid to increase yields and incomes. Farmers’ cooperatives embrace the technology as a step toward efficiency. Some however, feel the technology is too expensive and may shut out poor farmers. Sarah Kimani has the story from Accra.
September 05, 2019
Kenyan Farmers Benefit From Insured Loans

Insurance cushions them from possible losses
September 05, 2019
Kenyan Farmers Benefit from Insured Loans

Kenyan farmers hope to benefit from insured loans that will help them purchase farm inputs and seeds. Unlike other commercial bank loans, the Risk Contingent Credit Scheme, which is a brainchild of Washington-based IFPRI, aims to cushion farmers from huge losses accrued from crop failures because of climate change. Sarah Kimani has more from Machakos, Kenya.
September 05, 2019
Kenyan Farmers Benefit from Insured Loans

Kenyan farmers hope to benefit from insured loans that will help them purchase farm inputs and seeds. Unlike other commercial bank loans, the Risk Contingent Credit Scheme, which is a brainchild of Washington-based IFPRI, aims to cushion farmers from huge losses accrued from crop failures because of climate change. Sarah Kimani has more from Machakos, Kenya.
August 20, 2019
Kenya's First Football Team of People Living with Albinism

Team hopes to beat all odds to play in league
August 20, 2019
Kenya’s First Albino Football Team Scores a Win

Team hopes to beat all odds to play in league
August 19, 2019
Kenya’s First Albino Football Team Scores a Win

Growing up with albinism 24-year-old Allan Herbert, a Kenyan journalism graduate knew he was different. While he did not face the stigma and discrimination that other albinos in his country suffer, he did have to take precautions. Despite this, he formed a football team made up of albino players as a way for people with his condition fight for their space in Kenya. And his team won its debut match on Saturday, as Sarah Kimani reports from Nairobi.
August 08, 2019
Breast Milk Bank in Nairobi Shows Impact

Milk bank hopes to reduce Nairobi's high rate of neonatal death
August 08, 2019
Africa's Second Breast Milk Bank in Nairobi Having an Impact

Medical experts in Kenya are banking on human breast milk to save the lives of newborn babies. Nairobi's Pumwani Maternity Hospital has set up East Africa's first breastmilk bank, the second in Africa, to provide donated milk to babies in need. As Sarah Kimani reports from Nairobi, the milk bank appears to be having an impact.
August 08, 2019
Africa's Second Breast Milk Bank in Nairobi Having Impact

Medical experts in Kenya are banking on human breast milk to save the lives of newborn babies. Nairobi's Pumwani Maternity Hospital has set up East Africa's first breastmilk bank, the second in Africa, to provide donated milk to babies in need. As Sarah Kimani reports from Nairobi, the milk bank appears to be having an impact.
August 01, 2019
Kenya Police Accused of Extrajudicial Killings

Human Rights Watch says Kenya's police force has carried out extrajudicial killings of at least 21 young men and boys over the past year
August 01, 2019
Kenya Police Accused of Extrajudicial Killings

Human Rights Watch says Kenya's police force has carried out extrajudicial killings of at least 21 young men and boys over the past year
August 01, 2019
Human Rights Watch Accuses Kenyan Police of Extrajudicial Killings

Rights group says police killed at least 21 men and boys in Nairobi's low-income areas in the last year; police have not commented on the report
July 08, 2019
Kenyan Football Team Aims for World Dwarf Games

East Africa's first dwarf football team came together just over a year ago, with the hope of transforming into a national league to spread across the region
July 08, 2019
Kenya’s Dwarf Football Team: East Africa’s First

Team fights stigma, aims to play in the World Dwarf Games in 2021
July 08, 2019
Kenya’s Dwarf Football Team: East Africa’s First

Kenyans affected by dwarfism are using football (soccer) to fight stigma with the first dwarf football team in East Africa. The Short Stature Society of Kenya formed the team just over a year ago with the hope of growing it into a national league to spread across the region. Sarah Kimani reports from Nairobi.
June 26, 2019
Kenya’s Ice Hockey Team Determined to Quality for 2022 Winter Olympics

Players on the country's only team seek out challengers to hone their skills
June 26, 2019
Kenya’s Ice Hockey Team Determined to Qualify for 2022 Winter Olympics

Players on the country's only team seek out challengers to hone their skills

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