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Ethiopia: US, Egypt Reiterate Support For Diplomatic Resolution of GERD Issue
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Following a meeting today between President Joe Biden and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah Al Sisi in Jeddah in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the two l [...]
Country: Ethiopia
Region: Africa
Date: 18-Jul-2022
South Africa: Eskom Goes After Delinquent Municipality's Bank Accounts
[GroundUp] City of Matlosana Local Municipality in North West owes Eskom over R800-million [...]
FinancialCountry: South Africa
Region: Africa
Date: 18-Jul-2022
Tanzania: Health Sector Makes Headway
[Daily News] Kilimanjaro -- The government is making major headways in improving the health sector-key to human development after the launch of the new level three state-of-the-art [...]
Healthcare and MedicineCountry: Tanzania
Region: Africa
Date: 18-Jul-2022
Nigeria: Is Nigeria Self-Sufficient in Food Production As Claimed By President Buhari?
[Daily Trust] Claim: President Muhammadu Buhari in a tweet on Friday last week said Nigeria is achieving food security as a result of investments his administration has made to ens [...]
Agriculture Food & BeverageCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 18-Jul-2022
Eritrea: Tsegana Integrated Farm Pioneering Certified Commercial Compost Production in Eritrea
[Shabait] Since early 2021, the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) is undertaking vigorous efforts to promote organic farming by strengthening experts and various agricultural firms to [...]
AgricultureCountry: Eritrea
Region: Africa
Date: 18-Jul-2022
Liberia: Agriculture, Health, WFP, and Partners Launch Nationwide Rapid Food Security Assessment
[New Dawn] Liberia's Ministries of Agriculture and Health, along with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), and sector partners have launched a two-week rapid food securit [...]
AgricultureCountry: Liberia
Region: Africa
Date: 18-Jul-2022
South Africa: Historic Tea Payment Made to South African Tribes
[VOA] Cape Town, South Africa -- Two tribes in South Africa, the Khoi and the San, have received their first payment for the sale of the indigenous rooibos plant, grown mainly for [...]
AgricultureCountry: South Africa
Region: Africa
Date: 18-Jul-2022
Cross River State Government Set To Mitigate Coastal Degradation
Eme Offiong, Calabar The Cross River State Government in partnership with the World Bank and Nigeria’s Ministry of Environment has concluded plans to tackle challenges mitigating [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 16-Jul-2022
Agriculture remains fastest means of job creation – TETFund boss
The Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Sonny Echono, has reiterated the importance of agriculture in addressing unemployment, poverty and food shortage i [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 16-Jul-2022
German Government launch €40m support in North-East Nigeria
By Ene Okwanihe, Abuja The German government has teamed up with the World Food Programme (WFP) and the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) to provide €40m support for over 500, [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 16-Jul-2022
Nigerian Government assists Farmers in Anambra State
Agriculture inputs worth over ₦134 million have so far been distributed to farmers in Anambra State by the Federal government and other agriculture-based organisations. The farm [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 16-Jul-2022
Stakeholders Mobilize cashew export production village in Kogi State
Cashew farming stakeholders in Kogi State have been mobilized for Cashew Export Production Village (EPV) Development in the state. The Trade Promotion Advisor, the Nigerian Export [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 15-Jul-2022
ECOWAS Train Livestock Farmers in Gombe State
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has commenced training on livestock value chain for 35 farmers in Gombe State. The training which started on Wednesday was or [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 15-Jul-2022
Govt Leverages On Post-Harvest Technologies to Minimise Losses for Nyanza Rice Farmers
[Capital FM] Kisumu -- The National Irrigation Authority (NIA) in partnership with private entities has deployed post-harvest technologies in rice farming areas in the Nyanza regio [...]
Information Technology (IT) AgricultureCountry: Kenya
Region: Africa
Date: 15-Jul-2022
UNBS Opens Regional Food Safety Laboratory in Gulu
[Nile Post] The Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has opened a food safety testing laboratory for the northern region based in Gulu. [...]
Agricultural Tools/EquipmentsCountry: Uganda
Region: Africa
Date: 15-Jul-2022
Hunger Deepens in Darfur Camps - WFP in Sudan 'Must Make Heart Wrenching Decisions' Amid $366 Mln Funding Shortfall
[Dabanga] Khartoum / Zalingei / Gereida / Kutum -- Soaring food prices, which have resulted in even the basics becoming unaffordable to the poor, are forcing many destitute displac [...]
AgricultureCountry: Sudan
Region: Africa
Date: 15-Jul-2022
Tanzania: Pepper Farmers Trained On Organic Farming
[Daily News] MORE than 250 pepper farmers have been trained in organic farming to boost their productivity and increase income. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 15-Jul-2022
Amazing Ting - Sorghum Must Be Reinvigorated As a Key Food Before It's Lost
[The Conversation Africa] The world's food systems have developed in a way that is not serving health and sustainability. [...]
AgricultureCountry: South Africa
Region: Africa
Date: 15-Jul-2022
SPECIAL REPORT: Facing high wheat prices, Nigerian bakers turn to potato puree
The paste made from orange-fleshed sweet potato is becoming the new normal in bread-making in Nigeria, where bakeries have fallen on hard times following record jumps in productio [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 14-Jul-2022
Ministry To Support North East Livestock With Free Vaccines
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar has said that the Ministry through the Department of Veterinary and Pest Control Services would supp [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 14-Jul-2022
6,000 Farmers benefit from Empowerment in Kwara State
At least 6,000 crop and livestock farmers in Kwara State have benefited from the first round of government and World Bank-enabled support along agricultural value chains. According [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 14-Jul-2022
Africa: Food Security - We Are Still Going Backwards
[IPS] Rome -- This is an op-ed by Mario Lubetkin, FAO Assistant Director-General and designated FAO Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean (1 August 2022) [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 14-Jul-2022
Ghana: Keeping the Hopes of Farmers On Shelves - the Story of Ghana's Bt Cowpea
[Ghanaian Times] Nearly 10 years of Ghana's efforts to develop a pest-resistant cowpea variety--Pod Borer Resistant (PBR) cowpea, which is a product of Genetically Modified Organis [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 14-Jul-2022
Ghana: GMOs - A Solution or Subject of Debate?
[Ghanaian Times] Biotechnology remains one of the most innovative technologies ever developed in the 20th Century, and it holds more promise in the 21st Century with the emergence [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 14-Jul-2022
Nigeria: Fishermen Seek Govt's Intervention Over Shell Bonga Oil Spill
[This Day] Representatives and leaders of the Artisan Fishermen Association of Nigeria (AFAN) who are victims of the Shell Bonga Oil Spill of 2011, yesterday called on President Mu [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 14-Jul-2022