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Box 30772-00100 Integrated Pest Core Donors Nairobi, Kenya Management (IPM) Telephone: +254 (20) 8632000 Fax: +254 (20) 8632001/8632002 Updates E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.icipe.org Key Project Partners icipe STATIONS icipe – Duduville Campus Telephone: +254 (20) 8632000 Fax: +254 (20) 8632001/8632002 Project Donors icipe – Thomas Odhiambo Mbita Campus Telephone: +254 (59) 22216/7/8 Fax: +254 (59) 22190 Satellite line: +441707657334 icipe – Ethiopia Country Office Telephone: +251 (1) 463215 Fax: +251 (1) 463215 icipe – Uganda Country Office Wanale Road, Plot 10, Mbale, Uganda Telephone: +256 (0)778 524647.