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Get latest updates/news emanating from around the Middle-East and African region.
Zimbabwe: Midlands Exceeds 2024 Winter Wheat Target
[The Herald] Midlands exceeded its 2024 winter wheat target by 2 percent, aligning with its economic development plan, Minister of State for Midlands Provincial Affairs and Devolut [...]
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Date: 16-Oct-2024
Ethiopia: Yelemat Tirufat Gaining Momentum
[Ethiopian Herald] Ethiopia, a nation endowed with vast agricultural potential, faces significant challenges in achieving food security. These challenges stem from a variety of und [...]
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Date: 16-Oct-2024
Ethiopia: Doubling Investment Key to Transforming Smallholder Farming - PSI
[Ethiopian Herald] Improving the lives of smallholder farmers in Ethiopia requires doubling or tripling the current agricultural capital investment, according to the Policy Study I [...]
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Date: 16-Oct-2024
Liberia: Central Bank of Liberia Holds Strategic Stakeholders Engagement in Ganta
[FrontPageAfrica] Ganta, Nimba County -- The Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) recently concluded a one-day external stakeholders' engagement in Ganta, Nimba County. The event, which b [...]
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Date: 16-Oct-2024
West Africa: Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency Investigates 42-Year-Old Cannabis Farmer in Nimba
[FrontPageAfrica] Tappita, Nimba -- Officers of the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency are investigating a 42-yr-old cannabis famer who was on Saturday, October 12, arrested with a hu [...]
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Date: 16-Oct-2024
Liberia: President Boakai At the 2024 World Food Forum
[FrontPageAfrica] Rome -- Liberian President Joseph Nyuma Boakai at the 2024 World Food Forum in Rome, Italy on Monday told the gathering that the world is witnessing an alarming r [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 16-Oct-2024
Namibia: NNFU Wants Mobile Unit Abattoir for Kunene
[New Era] The Namibia National Farmers' Union (NNFU) has reiterated its call for government to set up a mobile unit abattoir in the Kunene region to create market access opportunit [...]
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Date: 16-Oct-2024
Namibia: Farmers Tips - Good Rainfall Does Not Guarantee Rangeland Recovery
[New Era] Arangeland refers to land inhabited by native plants (grass, forbs, shrubs and trees) and utilised by domestic and wild animals. [...]
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Date: 16-Oct-2024
Namibia: Congested Farms Concern Omaheke Councillors
[New Era] Gobabis -- Crowded farms, hopelessness among corridor farmers and landlessness remain growing concerns in the Omaheke region, the regional leadership has admitted. [...]
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Date: 16-Oct-2024
Namibia: Ovitoto Farmers Receive Free Lucerne
[New Era] Zebaldt Ngaruka [...]
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Date: 16-Oct-2024
Ghana: Fisheries Commission Trains Officers in Aquatic Animal Health Management
[GhanaToday] The Fish Health Unit (FHU) of the Fisheries Commission (FC), in collaboration with the Norwegian Veterinary Institute (NVI), has trained officers to enhance their know [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 16-Oct-2024
Uganda: Museveni Asks UPDF to Focus On Agriculture, Professionalism
[Nile Post] Turning his focus to agriculture, President Museveni called on the officers and local farmers to prioritize large-scale farming with irrigation, stressing crop diversif [...]
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Date: 16-Oct-2024
Africa: World Food Day 2024 - a Quote From Slow Food President Edward Mukiibi
[Slow Food] "Today, on World Food Day, we celebrate the right to food as a fundamental part of a better life and a brighter future. Slow Food reaffirms its belief that food can be [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 16-Oct-2024
East Africa: Enhancing Ethiopia's Coffee and Tea Sector -A Strategic Approach to Growth
[Ethiopian Herald] The Ethiopian Coffee and Tea Authority (ECTA) is making significant strides in improving the production, quality, and export of the country's renowned coffee, te [...]
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Date: 16-Oct-2024
Africa: African Youth Encouraged to Champion Food Sovereignty
[Ethiopian Herald] The Ministry of Planning and Development (MoPD) emphasized the need for African youth to work collaboratively in driving food sovereignty and promoting agro-ecol [...]
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Date: 16-Oct-2024
Nigeria: After Momentary Relief, Inflation Hits 32.70% Amid Higher Food, Energy Prices
[This Day] Following two consecutive months of marginal decline, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) which measures the rate of change in prices of goods and commodities shot up to 32.7 [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 16-Oct-2024
Zimbabwe: Farmers Warned Against Planting With Recent Showers
[The Herald] Farmers should not start planting on the basis of the rains that have fallen in some parts of the country since Sunday, but should use the rains to accelerate land pre [...]
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Date: 16-Oct-2024
South Africa: Media Statement for World Food Day Picket 16 Oct 1100hrs - RSA National Parliament. - The Right to Healthy and Affordable Food for All
[People's Health Movement South Africa] As we mark World Food Day today, we will be picketing from 1100hrs at the National Parliament of South Africa to express our deep dissatisfa [...]
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Date: 16-Oct-2024
Zimbabwe: Govt Launches Summer Cropping Season
[The Herald] THE Government is today expected to launch the Presidential Agricultural Climate Proofing Input Support Programme (Pfumvudza/Intwasa) for the 2024-2025 summer cropping [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 16-Oct-2024
South Africa: How Government Abandoned a Multi-Million-Rand Community Dairy Farm
[GroundUp] After catastrophic floods, Minister Nomakhosazana Meth introduced a mysterious investor to the farm without any due diligence [...]
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Date: 16-Oct-2024
South Africa: Minister Denies Olympic Joyride Claims - South African News Briefs - October 16, 2024
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Date: 16-Oct-2024
Patrick Hutchinson steps down as AMIC CEO after seven years
AUSTRALIA – Patrick Hutchinson, the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Meat Indus [...]
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Date: 15-Oct-2024
KTDA implements anti-tampering technology on tea scales
KENYA – The Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) has successfully completed the installat [...]
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Date: 15-Oct-2024
T. Hasegawa USA unveils cost-saving orange juice replacer amid citrus supply challenges
USA – T. Hasegawa USA, the North American subsidiary of global flavor and fragrance prod [...]
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Date: 15-Oct-2024
Treasury Wine Estates to pay US$43.7M to settle shareholder class action from 202
AUSTRALIA – Australian wine giant Treasury Wine Estates (TWE) has agreed to a settlement [...]
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Date: 15-Oct-2024