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Kenya’s biggest economic hurdle right now is its upcoming election. According to a new report (pdf) from the parliament’s budget office released today (May 19th), the general election in August is the “greatest challenge” to the national economy. Elections are always a time of uncertainty for Kenya. Since independence, the country has held ten elections and several of them have been marred by post-election violence, including the 2007 vote when more than 1,000 people were killed and over half a million displaced. On Monday, supporters of Kenya’s main opposition candidate, Raila Odinga, were tear-gassed and beaten by police during a weekly demonstration. “The election mood currently being experienced as the country is gearing itself for the 2017 elections have dampened the investment mood of the country as most investors are practicing the wait-and-see approach,” the report says. Current president Uhuru Kenyatta is expected to seek re-election. The report, by ...

Suspected fighters are paraded before the media by the Burundian police. (Reuters/Jean Pierre Aime Harerimana) As many as 100 people have been killed in Burundi’s capital city Bujumbura over the past four days, after opposition groups attacked government military bases on Friday. Security forces have reportedly raided neighborhoods killing both opposition activists and civilians, leaving their bodies in the streets , in what is the worst spate of violence since April when president Pierre Nkurunziza ignored widespread protests and sought a third term . Human rights observers say that mass arrests have also been made. The US ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Powers warned over the weekend that the situation could “ devolve into mass violence ” if both sides don’t negotiate. Both the US and Canada have advised their citizens to leave or avoid the country. The small central African country has experienced two genocides in the last 50 years driven by...

The most deadly form of tuberculosis is one that lies in wait inside the body for years, attacking at the first sign of weakness. About a third of the global population may carry what is known as latent TB. Slow diagnostic tests mean many will go years without knowing that they are infected. Now, two separate medical innovations aim to detect TB earlier, stopping the deadliest form of the lung disease. Using a process called fluorescence dilution, scientists are now able label the specific bacteria that cause latent TB and isolate it in order to track its development. This specific labeling process works like a “micro-tweezer,” allowing scientists Samantha Sampson and Jomien Mouton to physically pick out the slow-growing, but deadly bacteria. It’s the same process used to detect salmonella. They’ve learned that the bacteria creep inside white blood cells—the body’s defense mechanism—where they live until their host’s immune system is susceptible to attack. This infor...

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