Latest News Updates
Get latest updates/news emanating from around the Middle-East and African region.
India approves 15M tonne sugar exports for 2025-26 as industry seeks higher MSP
INDIA – India’s Union Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi has annou [...]
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Date: 25-Nov-2025
Spearhead Spirits launches South Africa’s “first” bar-strength RTD cocktails
SOUTH AFRICA – Patch, described as South Africa’s first bar-strength ready-to- [...]
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Date: 25-Nov-2025
Wega Food targets major capacity boost as Cameroon’s sugar market faces structural gaps
CAMEROON – Wega Food, a Cameroonian producer of white sugar, has announced a sig [...]
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Date: 25-Nov-2025
KAM seeks sugar levy exemptions to boost Kenya’s competitiveness in regional, global markets
KENYA – The Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) has called for targeted exem [...]
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Date: 25-Nov-2025
Tanzania seeks to expand tea exports to Egypt amid strengthened bilateral trade talks
TANZANIA – Tanzania is intensifying efforts to grow its share of the Egyptian tea [...]
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Date: 25-Nov-2025
Delivering safe and effective Bt maize in Mozambique
Mozambique stands at the forefront of a new chapter in African agriculture – one defined by innovation, safety, and the power of science to transform farming systems. For years, [...]
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Date: 25-Nov-2025
Nigeria: Pipeline Surveillance - Pinl to Partner NDLEA's Anti-Drug Campaign in Niger Delta
[This Day] Yenagoa -- In line with its strategic engagement policy with relevant stakeholders in the fight against vandalism and oil theft in the Niger Delta, Pipeline Infrastructu [...]
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Date: 25-Nov-2025
Liberia: UL Launches Landmark Solar Infrastructure Project to Revolutionize Campus Life At Fendall
[Liberian Investigator] Fendall Campus, Lower Virginia -- - Amid the inadequate and inconsistent electricity supply from the Liberia Electricity Corporation's (LEC) grid, the Unive [...]
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Date: 25-Nov-2025
West Africa: Liberia and Sierra Leone Break Ground On Ecowas-Funded Jendema-Bo Waterside Joint Border Post
[Liberian Investigator] -- Liberia and Sierra Leone, alongside the ECOWAS Commission, on Saturday broke ground for the construction of the Jendema-Bo Waterside Joint Border Post ( [...]
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Date: 25-Nov-2025
Namibia: Roads Network Is Apolitical - Lutombi
[New Era] Outgoing Roads Authority Chief Executive Officer Conrad Lutombi says Namibia's road network belongs to all citizens, regardless of political affiliation. Speaking to New [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 25-Nov-2025
Liberia: LMHRA, Qms Sign U.S.$9m Deal to Modernize Liberia's Quality Control Lab
[Liberian Observer] In a transformative move poised to reshape Liberia's pharmaceutical safety landscape, the Liberia Medicines and Health Products Regulatory Authority (LMHRA) has [...]
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Date: 25-Nov-2025
Nigeria: Backlash Over Akwa Ibom Govt's Response to Criticism On Broken Public Infrastructure
[Premium Times] In a state of about seven million people, the state government has spent an estimated N2 billion on luxury SUVs for politicians within one year, even as more than t [...]
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Date: 25-Nov-2025
Uganda: Uganda's Piggery Sector Gears Up for Growth Ahead of December Symposium
[Nile Post] Uganda's piggery sector is set for expansion as Gudie Leisure Farm prepares to host the second Piggery Cottage Industry Symposium on December 8, 2025, at its Najjera II [...]
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Date: 25-Nov-2025
South Africa: Department Finalises Over 6 000 Fertiliser and Farm Feed Applications
[SAnews.gov.za] The Department of Agriculture has moved to correct what it describes as "misleading" public claims made by an agriculture lobby group regarding the status of applic [...]
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Date: 25-Nov-2025
Zimbabwe: Govt, Police Unite to Stamp Out Counterfeit Seed Market
[263Chat] The seed industry, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Zimbabwe Republic Police have launched a nationwide crackdown on counterfeit seed warning that the illegal trade po [...]
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Date: 25-Nov-2025
Cameroon: Hunger Without Borders - Aid Cuts Hit Displaced People in CAR and Cameroon
[WFP] A funding crunch is forcing WFP to cut assistance to refugees and returnees [...]
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Date: 25-Nov-2025
Africa: Nestlé Denies 'Double Standards' Amid Sugar Content Controversy in African Baby Food
[Leadership] Nestlé Nigeria Plc has responded to recent allegations that it is adding sugar to its baby food products, which are sold in Africa, despite offering sugar-free versio [...]
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Date: 25-Nov-2025
Liberia: From Canoes to Cutting-Edge - Saygbe's Leadership Sparks a Transformational Wave Across Liberia's Fisheries Sector
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia _ The National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority (NaFAA) has entered a new chapter under the dynamic leadership of Acting Director General J. Cyrus Say [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 25-Nov-2025
Uganda: Experts - Hazardous Pesticides Threaten Ugandan Farms, Food Safety, and Public Health
[Nile Post] Environmental experts, public health specialists, and agricultural officers are calling on the government of Uganda to urgently ban the importation and circulation of h [...]
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Date: 25-Nov-2025
South Africa: Calls for Nestlé to Remove Sugar From Baby Foods
[GroundUp] Swiss investigative outlet claims Nestlé is misrepresenting sugar content [...]
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Date: 25-Nov-2025
Malawi: We Are Not Ready for Planting Season, Mutharika Says as Fertilizer Crisis Deepens
[Nyasa Times] President Peter Mutharika has publicly conceded that his government has failed to prepare the country for the 2025/26 planting season, admitting that Malawi is headin [...]
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Date: 25-Nov-2025
Trump lifts 40% tariff on key Brazilian food, beverage imports
BRAZIL – US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order removing a plann [...]
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Date: 24-Nov-2025
FSSAI orders nationwide removal of beverages illegally using ‘ORS’ in branding
INDIA – The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has directed all [...]
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Date: 24-Nov-2025
Nestlé executive Vice President Sanjay Bahadur to retire after 40-year global career
SWITZERLAND – Nestlé has announced that Sanjay Bahadur, executive vice presiden [...]
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Date: 24-Nov-2025
Saudi Arabia quietly expands alcohol access to premium residency holders in Riyadh
SAUDI ARABIA – Saudi Arabia has begun easing access to alcohol by allowing non-M [...]
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Date: 24-Nov-2025