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Get latest updates/news emanating from around the Middle-East and African region.
How Sh1.6 Billion Put in Irrigation Schemes Will Benefit Farmers
[Citizen] Nzega -- Rehabilitation of 20 irrigation schemes in Nzega District, Tabora Region, will significantly improve food production, transform farmer's incomes and turn the dis [...]
Infrastructure and Construction AgricultureCountry: Tanzania
Region: Africa
Date: 24-Oct-2021
Egypt: Sisi Orders Continued Strict Measures Against Encroachments On Agricultural Lands
[Egypt Online] President Abdel Fattah El Sisi gave directives to continue taking strict measures against encroachments on agricultural lands. [...]
AgricultureCountry: Egypt
Region: Africa
Date: 24-Oct-2021
Agriculture and Climate change specialist receives 2021 Norman Borlaug award
Agriculture and Climate Change Specialist at Africa Rice Centre, Dr. Elliott Dossou-Yovo was conferred the 2021 Norman E. Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application. Roc [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 23-Oct-2021
Guinness records impressive half-year 2021 results; revenue up 31% to ¢285m
Guinness Ghana Breweries Plc recorded an impressive performance in the year ended 30 June 2021, despite the grim outlook of the beverages industry due to the Covid-19 pandemic. [...]
Country: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 23-Oct-2021
UN Says Hunger Hits Cameroon's Troubled Western Regions
[VOA] Yaounde -- The U.N.'s World Food Program says thousands of destitute people in Cameroon's crisis-prone western regions are going hungry and their situations may become worse [...]
Country: Cameroon
Region: Africa
Date: 23-Oct-2021
Zeroing of Price Stabilisation and Recovery Levies to begin in November – NPA
The zeroing of Price Stabilisation and Recovery Levies (PSRL) is set to commence on November 1. According to the National Petroleum Authority, this follows directives from t [...]
Energy/PowerCountry: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 22-Oct-2021
Ghana in 6th place for Investment-attractiveness in Africa – Report
Rand Merchant Bank’s (RMB) Where to Invest in Africa 2021 ranks Ghana in sixth place this year across the continent. RMB is the corporate and investment banking arm of Fi [...]
Financial Services FinancialCountry: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 22-Oct-2021
'Giving Life to Dying Land' - Solar Water Pumps Quench Thirsty Farms
[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Mwithini -- Kenya's farmers have built sand dams to hold onto scarce river water - but solar-power water pumps are making access hugely easier [...]
Water/Sanitation AgricultureCountry: Kenya
Region: Africa
Date: 22-Oct-2021
UN Calls for Transformation in Food Production
[Namibian] THE United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has advised the world to transform agrifood systems and make them more resilient to the effects of climate ch [...]
Agriculture Food & BeverageCountry: Namibia
Region: Africa
Date: 22-Oct-2021
Cameroon-World Food Programme - Government's Collaboration Appreciated
[Cameroon Tribune] The remark was made by the World Food Programme Regional Director for West and Central Africa, Christopher Nikoi, during an audience with Minister Mbella Mbella [...]
AgricultureCountry: Cameroon
Region: Africa
Date: 22-Oct-2021
Severe Drought Could Spur World's First Climate Change Famine
[UN News] More than one million people in southern Madagascar are struggling to get enough to eat, due to what could become the first famine caused by climate change, according to [...]
AgricultureCountry: Madagascar
Region: Africa
Date: 22-Oct-2021
How Farmers in Abuja Community Use 'Agroforestry Models' to Fight Climate Change #AfricaClimateCrisis
[Premium Times] By intentionally growing crops among trees in a way that each crop does not inhibit the growth of the other, farmers in the Nigerian capital promote sustainable eco [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 22-Oct-2021
Forestry, Fisheries and Environment Concerned About Reduced Catch Allowance On Rock Lobster #AfricaClimateCrisis
[Govt of SA] Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment notes concerns about reduction in West Coast Rock Lobster total allowable catch [...]
Agriculture FisheryCountry: South Africa
Region: Africa
Date: 22-Oct-2021
Department Addresses Concerns of Fishing Community
[SAnews.gov.za] The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment has noted the concerns raised by the fishing communities regarding the reduction in the West Coast Rock Lo [...]
Agriculture FisheryCountry: South Africa
Region: Africa
Date: 22-Oct-2021
Year of the Orange 0.2 - the Beginning
[Daily Maverick] Barely a week after I dried the peels of the last of the season's oranges, blossoms appeared to herald the next harvest. The circle of life, in orange. [...]
AgricultureCountry: South Africa
Region: Africa
Date: 22-Oct-2021
Africa: COP26 - 'To Fix the Climate Crisis We Must Address Broken Food Systems' #AfricaClimateCrisis
[WFP] The World Food Programme's climate and disaster risk reduction chief, Gernot Laganda, on the common solution to two great problems [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 22-Oct-2021
MTN Group is the leading African company on the Forbes World’s Best Employers 2021 list
MTN Group is humbled to be recognised as the leading African company on the recently revealed Forbes World’s Best Employers list for 2021. As part of the survey, emplo [...]
Country: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 21-Oct-2021
Trump to launch new social media platform TRUTH Social
Former US President Donald Trump has announced plans to launch a new social media network, called TRUTH Social. He said the platform would “stand up to the tyranny of big [...]
Country: Ghana
Region: General
Date: 21-Oct-2021
Facebook plans new group name to revamp image, says The Verge
Facebook Inc, under fire from regulators and lawmakers over its business practices, is planning to rebrand itself with a new group name that focuses on the metaverse, the Verge [...]
Country: Ghana
Region: General
Date: 21-Oct-2021
GNPC urged to increase its equity participation in oil and gas industry
Co-Chair of Ghana Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (GHEITI), Dr Steve Manteaw, has underscored the need for the Ghana National Petroleum Commission (GNPC) to increase it [...]
Country: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 21-Oct-2021
Ghana: Lands Commssion Directed to Provide Space for Amrahia Farms Project
[Ghanaian Times] The Lands Commission has been directed to expedite the processes to provide space for the commencement of government affordable housing scheme and other projects o [...]
Country: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 21-Oct-2021
ARCN Act Amendment Will Boost Agric Research ― Sharubutu
The Executive Secretary of Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria (ARCN), Professor Garba Sharubutu, has commended the Chairman, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Senator Abdullah [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 21-Oct-2021
Agricultural Economists task government on research
Amina Mohammed, Lafia. The Nigerian Association of Agricultural Economists has called on the Federal Government to invest more in research and ensure the implementation of its f [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 21-Oct-2021
Sokoto State Procures 400 Trucks of Fertilizer for farmers
Ismail Umar, Sokoto The Commissioner Ministry of Animal Health and Fisheries Development and Overseer Ministry of Agriculture Sokoto, Professor Abdulkadir Junaid, said state g [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 21-Oct-2021
Google agrees to integrate Ghana’s GPS into Google map system – Bawumia
The government of Ghana has entered into an agreement with international technology firm, Google, to incorporate the country’s GPS address in its mapping system, the Vice Preside [...]
Country: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 21-Oct-2021