About 13 Kenyans die of tuberculosis every hour and there is little immediate prospect of improvement, the head of a leading national health organisation said on Saturday which is World Tuberculosis Day. About 117 00 cases were diagnosed by 2006, but that was possibly only half of total infections in Kenya,

Escalating clashes over fertile land in Kenya’s Mount Elgon region have killed 60 people and forced tens of thousands more from their homes since December, the Kenya Red Cross said on Tuesday. Land is an explosive issue in the East African nation, where for decades top politicians grabbed public land for political patronage.

African governments’ failure to deliver on a 2001 vow to spend 15% of budgets on health has cost the continent 40-million lives, activists including Nobel winners Desmond Tutu and Wangari Maathai said on Sunday. ”The governments are to blame of course, but nothing has been done about it because ordinary people have not demanded it,” Maathai said in a call to action.