The new drug tricking sweet-seeking mosquitoes

Scientists have developed an insecticide that exploits a mosquito's attraction to sweet substances and makes it believe it is drinking a sugary treat. It has been found to almost totally eradicate mosquitoes in the malaria-plagued Tanzanian villages where it has been trialled.

Plus, some Kenyan MPs have been calling for a reversal of their salary cut, agreed earlier this year. But President Uhuru Kenyatta has vowed to block any MP salary increase.

(Picture: Homes in a Tanzanian village being sprayed with an formulation that attracts disease-carrying mosquitoes with a sweet meal and then kills them. Credit: Elison Kemibala)