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).

icipe Director General, Dr Segenet Kelemu, has been selected a 2019 College of Agriculture Alumni Fellow of Kansas State University, USA. Dr Kelemu earned a PhD in molecular biology and plant pathology from Kansas State University in 1989, after attaining an MSc at Montana State, USA, in 1985, and a Bachelor's degree from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, in 1979.