Malaria vector control experts from Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe convened at the Happy Valley Hotel in the Kingdom of Eswatini for the first regional coordination and steering committee meeting on the Integrated Vector Management (IVM)  also known as AFROII project. The meeting organised by the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa (WHO/AFRO) and supported by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) took place at the Happy Valley Hotel from on 10 to 13 April 2018.

Zebras, specifically odours found in their skin, may provide leads to boost the management of the deadly and devastating African trypanosomosis disease, which is transmitted by tsetse flies to people and livestock.

In 2018, icipe was selected to manage the Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund (RSIF), an initiative aimed at strengthening doctoral training, as well as research and innovation in applied sciences, engineering and technology (ASET), in Africa.

WHO AFRO II DEMO Project: Evaluating the feasibility and impact of community based winter larviciding and house screening on malaria transmission as additional vector control interventions in Southern African countries committed to malaria elimination

Professor Baldwyn Torto, Principal Scientist and Head, Behavioural and Chemical Ecology (BCEU), at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Kenya, has been awarded the 2019 Agropolis Louis Malassis International Prize for Food and Agriculture, under the Outstanding Career in Agricultural Development category (See: http://www.agropolis-fondation.fr/2019-Agropolis-Louis-Malassis-International-Scientific-Prize-for-Agriculture and http://www.agropolis-fondation.fr/IMG/pdf/press_release_-_2019_winners_lmisp_olam_prize_final.pdf).