NAKIVALE, Uganda, Aug 9 (UNHCR) - Cooking with a traditional three-stone stove in south-west Uganda's sprawling Nakivale refugee settlement used to be an exhausting daily exercise for 39-year-old ...

A project that converts human waste into fuel has been shortlisted in an international innovation competition. The project, by the Nakuru Water Sewerage and Sanitation Company (Nawassco), involves ...

Mrs Kalpana Karia, the briquette projects coordinator at the Briquettes Processing Factory in Dunga, Kisumu County. Inset: The ready briquettes. [Collins Oduor, Standard] Everybody is so busy on this ...

Halima Issa used to make a risky dash to the forest to cut down trees for firewood, which then filled her shelter with billowing smoke every time she cooked – but not anymore. The refugee from Sudan ...