Latest News Updates
Get latest updates/news emanating from around the Middle-East and African region.
Kenya: Athletics, Football Officials Want Contractor Pushed to Complete Ruring'u Stadium
[Capital FM] Nyeri -- Football and athletics officials in Nyeri County want the national government to compel the contractor at the Ruring'u Stadium to finalize construction of the [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 04-Oct-2022
Ghana: Some Residents of Weija-Gbawe Municipality Want Cement Factory Opened
[Ghanaian Times] Some residents in the Weija-Gbawe Municipality have kicked against the legal action taken by the McCarthy Hills Residents' Association to restrain Empire Cement Fa [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 04-Oct-2022
Ghana: Chamber of Construction Industry Tasked to Be Innovative
[Ghanaian Times] Koforidua -- The President of the Ghana Institute of Engineers (GhiE), Professor Charles Adams, has called on the members of the Chamber of Construction Industry t [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 04-Oct-2022
Tanzania: Dar es Salaam On Verge of Major Infrastructure Facelift
[Daily News] Dodoma -- Dar es Salaam is on the verge of a major infrastructure facelift as the much-awaited construction of a 600bn/- Jangwani Bridge and development of the Msimbaz [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 04-Oct-2022
Liberia: Boakai Lashes At Weah Over Rice Saga
[New Dawn] Liberia's former vice president and key opposition leader Amb. Joseph Nyumah Boakai has angrily reacted to the reported shortage of rice on the Liberian market, branding [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 04-Oct-2022
Liberia: Why Is Commerce Ministry Silent Amid Rice Shortage
[FrontPageAfrica] RICE IS LIBERIA'S staple food and is the most widely consumed in the country. Rough estimates indicate that Liberia spends more than two hundred million (US$200 m [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 04-Oct-2022
Tanzania: Tanzania Coffee Board Set to Improve Coffee Productivity
[Daily News] COFFEE is among the strategic cash crop across the country earning the country substantial amount of foreign exchange. Facts stands as such that after fuel coffee is t [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 04-Oct-2022
Nigeria: Despite Policy, Nigeria's Senior Citizens Abandoned to Hunger, Deprivation
[Premium Times] Nigeria's National Senior Citizens Centre Act mandates the state to direct its policy towards ensuring "that old age care and pensions, and unemployment, sick benef [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 04-Oct-2022
Kenya: Govt Lifts Ban on Genetically Modified Crops After 10 Years
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The government has lifted the ban on Genetically Modified Crops following a Cabinet meeting chaired by President William Ruto. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 04-Oct-2022
Rice Production: FAO lauds Nigeria’s smallholder farmers
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has praised Nigeria, particularly its smallholder farmers for the considerable progress in rice production. Howeve [...]
Agriculture Crop ProductionCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 01-Oct-2022
Delta State Government Tasks Nigerians To Invest in Agriculture
Delta state Governor , Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, has urged Nigerians to invest more in the agricultural sector to provide more job employment, development of economy for the country a [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 30-Sep-2022
Association Sets Up 148 Farms In Gombe State
The Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA) says it has set up 148 Community Demonstration Plot (CDP) in nine local Government areas of Gombe State. CDP is designed to expose small holde [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 30-Sep-2022
Insecurity Has Been Addressed around Lake Chad Basin- Nigeria’s Waterways
Nigeria’s National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) says it can assure the nation that the problem of insecurity in the Lake Chad basin has been sufficiently addressed. Manag [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 30-Sep-2022
Nigeria Government Advocates New Technologies For Greener Shipping
David Adekunle, Lagos. The Nigerian Government has advocated for the use of new technologies in greener shipping with a view to reduce the damage done to the atmosphere from emitt [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 30-Sep-2022
A one-day key stakeholders meeting on renewable energy, climate change and environmental management
By Chinwe Onuigbo, Awka A one-day key stakeholders meeting on renewable energy, climate change and environmental management has ended in Awka with a call on everyone to embrace cl [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 30-Sep-2022
Investments in Agriculture will drive Nigeria’s economic growth – VP Osinbajo
Nigeria’s Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo says the country’s government will continue to create the enabling environment to encourage more private sector investments in [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 30-Sep-2022
Sudan: Farmers Reject Higher Taxes, Bemoan Pest Threats to Crops
[Dabanga] El Gezira / El Manganil / ED El Fursan / Sirba / M -- On Monday, the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning issued a new decision, determining new fees for irrigation [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 30-Sep-2022
Zambia: In Drought-Prone Zambia, Farmers Learn New Tools to Save Harvests #AfricaClimateCrisis
[WFP] As the world marks the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, WFP helps growers recover from crop losses and capitalize on climate-smart techniques [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 30-Sep-2022
Ghana: Reduce Food Loss and Waste!
[Ghanaian Times] On December 19, 2019, the UN General Assembly designated September 29 as the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste (IDAFLW). [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 30-Sep-2022
Africa: Spoiler Alert - Minimizing Food Loss Is Easier Than You Think
[FAO] Simple solutions can help break the vicious cycle of food loss and climate change [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 30-Sep-2022
Anambra State: Floods sweep 13 Communities, render 300 Families homeless
Thirteen communities in the Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State, South-east Nigeria, have been hit by a deluge, rendering over 300 families homeless. [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 29-Sep-2022
Federal Capital Territory to participate in World Bank’s ACReSAL Project
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Executive Committee has approved the participation of the FCT in the Agro-Climate Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscape (ACReSAL) project of the Wor [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 29-Sep-2022
MSF Seeks Humanitarian Aid for Malnourished Children in Northwest Nigeria
[VOA] Abuja, Nigeria -- Medical aid group Doctors Without Borders has called on the United Nations to add northwest Nigeria to its humanitarian response plan, due to high numbers o [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 29-Sep-2022
Ruto Discusses Drought Response With Development Partners
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- President William Ruto on Wednesday chaired a meeting with development partners to discuss the drought situation in the country. [...]
Country: Kenya
Region: Africa
Date: 29-Sep-2022
Kisumu Receives Over 560 Bags of Subsidized Fertilizer
[Capital FM] Kisumu -- Kisumu county government has received over 560 bags of DAP fertilizer as part of the government subsidy program targeting farmers as promised by President Wi [...]
Country: Kenya
Region: Africa
Date: 29-Sep-2022