Livestock farmers in Isiolo district have joined together to rehabilitate a neglected dip tank, following mounting flock losses to tick-borne diseases, in a cost-sharing, local initiative they say has already halved their livestock mortality.

The more than 200 livestock farmers were losing herds of flock to common livestock diseases such as East Coast Fever and African trypanosomiasis, locally referred as sleeping sickness, as the cost of drugs escalated and veterinary officers, based in towns,

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The death of a close friend after inhaling carbon monoxide from a stove has been the spark that has seen two engineering students modify a charcoal stove into a safe, environmental friendly stove that  now conserves 60 percent of energy used and halves air pollution compared to conventional charcoal stoves. This could be welcome news to the over 70 percent of Kenyans, mostly in rural areas, who largely depend on wood or charcoal energy for cooking, a practice that has not only put their lives in danger,

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