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Get latest updates/news emanating from around the Middle-East and African region.
Unilever reshapes global marketing leadership as senior executive exits
UK – Unilever has announced a change in its senior marketing leadership, saying the move is intended to push decision-making closer to its Business Groups as the company [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 19-Dec-2025
Ghana: Adidome Community Celebrates Opening of First Public Library in Central Tongu
[Ghanaian Times] The town of Adidome recently witnessed a historic milestone with the official opening of the Adidome Community Library, the first-ever public library facility in t [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 19-Dec-2025
Liberia: China's Handover of 3600 Metric Tons of Emergency Food Aid to Liberia
[New Dawn] - To curb Liberia's food security [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 19-Dec-2025
Liberia: China Comes to Liberia Rescue With Emergency Food Aid
[New Republic] MONROVIA-The People's Republic of China has come to the aid of Liberia with the donation of Emergency Humanitarian Food Aid. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 19-Dec-2025
Kenya: Kenyan Court Restores Seed Freedom - Landmark Ruling Boost for Food Security and Sovereignty
[IPS] Nairobi -- For years, smallholder farmers across Kenya have been engaged in a legal battle with the government over a law that criminalizes the practice of saving, sharing an [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 19-Dec-2025
Ethiopia: Film Depicting Ethiopia's Wheat Revolution Inaugurated
[ENA] Addis Ababa -- A documentary film, which depicts the wheat revolution in Ethiopia enabling Ethiopia to cross the threshold into a new era of agricultural sovereignty, was ina [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 19-Dec-2025
Rwanda: Climate Threats Spur New Push to Safeguard Food Production
[New Times] The Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources, Telesphore Ndabamenye, has outlined measures the government is rolling out to protect food production from the growing [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 19-Dec-2025
Uganda: Stakeholders Call for Coordinated Agricultural Advisory Services to Break Extension Silos
[Nile Post] Government officials, development partners, researchers, civil society actors, and private sector players have called for urgent reforms to Uganda's agricultural extens [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 19-Dec-2025
Liberia: Nimba Farmers Showcase Innovative Rice, Soybean Cultivation
[Liberian Observer] A group of farmers operating under the banner 'Panta Pride' unveiled a new variety of consumable rice at the recently concluded National Agriculture Fair in Gan [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 19-Dec-2025
Nigeria: Kaduna Livestock Project Boosts Productivity, Peace - Commissioner
[Leadership] The Kaduna State Government has stated that its World Bank-funded Livestock Productivity and Resilience Support (L-PRES) Project is delivering measurable gains in anim [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 19-Dec-2025
Uganda: Rukungiri Musicians Find New Rhythm in Piggery Farming With Microfinance Support Centre Backing
[Nile Post] Once celebrated for entertaining crowds at local functions, a group of singers in Katobo, Rukungiri District, has rewritten its story--swapping microphones for farm too [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 19-Dec-2025
Kenya: Farmers Can Now Measure and Benefit From Fruit Tree Carbon Trade
[IPS] Nairobi -- Farmers can now know and benefit from their contribution to climate change thanks to a formula that can be used to calculate the amount of carbon stored in fruit t [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 19-Dec-2025
Nigeria: The Case for More Seaports
[This Day] The economy will fare better if other ports are put to good use [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 12-Dec-2025
Uganda: Contractors Warned Against Delays As Wakiso Signs Multi-Billion Road and Market Contracts
[Nile Post] Contractors awarded major road and market rehabilitation projects in Wakiso District have been cautioned against delaying or abandoning their work, with government offi [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 12-Dec-2025
Ghana: Prang D/a No. 1 Primary School Gets New Classroom Block
[Ghanaian Times] Yapra Rural Bank PLC, headquartered in Prang, Bono East Region, has constructed and handed over a three-unit classroom block with ancillary facilities to the Prang [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 12-Dec-2025
Malawi: LCC Under Fire for Sleeping On Duty As Lilongwe Bridge Turns Into a Market Again
[Nyasa Times] Lilongwe City Council (LCC) is facing fierce criticism for its laid-back and embarrassingly casual approach to law enforcement after vendors overran the newly-constru [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 12-Dec-2025
Ghana: Ga Mantse Unveils Master Plan to Transform Agbogbloshie Market
[Ghanaian Times] The Ga Mantse, King Tackie Teiko Tsuru II, has handed over a redevelopment master plan for the modernization of Agbogbloshie Market, which will accommodate more th [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 12-Dec-2025
Ghana: Cost Urges Stronger Citizen Participation in Infrastructure Oversight
[Ghanaian Times] Stakeholders in Ghana's infrastructure sector must remain committed to promoting citizen participation to ensure accountability, transparency, and value for money, [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 12-Dec-2025
Kenya: Ruto Promises Framework for National Infrastructure Fund On Monday
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Cabinet will on Monday consider and adopt the framework for the proposed National Infrastructure Fund (NIF), a flagship instrument that President Willia [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 12-Dec-2025
Nigeria: Top 10 Countries in the World With Best Quality of Roads
[Vanguard] Road infrastructure remains one of the clearest indicators of a nation's development, influencing everything from economic productivity to safety standards and the overa [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 12-Dec-2025
Africa: OCP Group's participation at the Seventh Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-7)
[OCP] The seventh session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-7) took place from 8 to 12 December 2025 at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) headquarters [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 12-Dec-2025
Uganda: Uganda Launches First Agricultural Trade and Investment Conference in China's Qingdao City
[Nile Post] Uganda has launched its first Agricultural Trade and Investment Conference in Qingdao City, Shandong Province, China, in a historic move aimed at boosting bilateral tra [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 12-Dec-2025
Ghana: President Appoints Deputy CEO for Cocoa Processing Company
[Ghanaian Times] President John Dramani Mahama has appointed Mr. Osei Kwame Griffiths as the Deputy Managing Director in charge of Operations at the Cocoa Processing Company (CPC). [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 12-Dec-2025
Tanzania: Coast RC Calls for Caution Amid Lower Ruvu River Levels
[Daily News] Coast Region -- COAST Regional Commissioner (RC) Abubakar Kunenge has called on farmers who draw water from the Ruvu River to temporarily suspend agricultural activiti [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 12-Dec-2025
Africa: Droughts, Floods Wipe Out 10m Livestock in East Africa
[Daily News] Nairobi -- EAST Africa faces the worsening climate extremes, where recent droughts and floods are said to have wiped out about 10 million livestock worth 2bn US Dollar [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 12-Dec-2025