2025 Intake Open University of Kenya
2025 Intake Open University of Kenya

Zambia

A health specialist attends to a pupil in Zambia as efforts to combat the ongoing cholera outbreak gain weight. The government, with support from WHO, has embarked on administration of vaccines in order to contain the crisis. PHOTO/MSF.

Zambia’s Cholera Crisis: Groping for health, governance, and resilience

Speaking to reporters in Lusaka on January 16, Zambia’s Health Minister Sylvia Masebo said the cholera outbreak has since affected 45 out of the country’s 116 districts. The outbreak has exposed the vulnerabilities in Zambia's...
Celine's tomato seedlings in sacks, ready for transplanting. Photo/COURTESY

How Celine turned 21 tomato-seedling trays to a tomato plantation

Hitherto, Africa continues to punch below her weight on the issue of feeding herself. However, the current hope overrides any doubts that in the next few years, Africa, like all her sister continents, will be...
Tomatoes, a Fresh Fields Project harvest, run by Kateta and his teenage student-farmers. Photo/ COURTESY

Why Kateta’s Fresh Fields Community Project could be Zambia’s hunger solution

Ever imagined an African continent where all people can feed themselves without importing the millions of tonnes of food commodities we import annually? Current Situation Africa is host to 60% of the world’s uncultivated arable land...