A recent Dispatch (Volume 21, Number 12—December 2015) by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in Nairobi, showed the malaria mosquito to have developed high levels of resistance against DDT. Separate studies in Western Kenya have found extensive soil poisoning by various chemicals. In January, Dr Elijah Ngumba of the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, published a landmark study showing the whole of the Nairobi River basin to be extensively contaminated with residues from HIV and Aids drugs.
Kuhusiana na ushirikishwaji wa wanawake, Balozi Mongella ambaye ndiye Mwafrika wa kwanza kuwa mwenyekiti wa Mkutano wa Dunia wa Wanawake uliofanyika Beijing, China mwaka 1995, amesema jitihada za kwanza zilianza katika Mkutano wa Rio de Janeiro, Brazil mwaka 1992 kuhusu mazingira na mkutano wa maendeleo wa Cairo, Misri 1993 pamoja na ule wa Beijing, ambapo maazimio yaliyofikiwa ni kuhakikisha wanawake wanahusishwa katika maendeleo.