Dickson Ngome's farm at Lake Naivasha in Kenya's Rift Valley has been submerged due to rising water levels. Since 2011, the lake has steadily risen, displacing Ngome's family and thousands of ...
In 2008, Lake Naivasha's shoreline was more than two kilometres from Dickson Ngome's 1.5-acre vegetable farm, which is currently submerged by the lake following an overnight surge of floodwater in ...
The following script is from "The Children's Village," which aired on May 1, 2016, and was rebroadcast on July 31, 2016. Bill Whitaker is the correspondent. Magalie Laguerre-Wilkinson, producer.
"Please, just come to Karatu." That's what India Howell, co-founder of the Rift Valley Children's Village in rural Tanzania, a home for abandoned and needy children, told Dr. Frank Artress and his ...
The Zika virus must take the “side roads” into the placenta to infect a fetus, one researcher said — but the Rift Valley fever virus takes the “expressway.” By Emily Baumgaertner The mosquito-borne ...
Hoping to prevent another epidemic, scientists are working on Rift Valley fever. The Zika virus epidemic of 2015 resulted in thousands of Brazilian babies being born with severe brain defects after ...
The Simien Mountains, Ethiopia A World Heritage Site and national park, with the tallest peak Ras Dashen reaching 4,619 metres, this region is best known as the habitat of Gelada baboons and Ethiopian ...
Eunice Anyango Owino is a medical entomologist at the University of Nairobi and consults with the International Center for Insect Physiology and Ecology. She has received funds from the National ...