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Get latest updates/news emanating from around the Middle-East and African region.
Somalia: 'Dire and Grim' Drought is Impacting More Than 7 Million
[UN News] Accompanying Somalia's newly-appointed drought envoy on his first field visit, the United Nations' top humanitarian official for the Horn of Africa country warned on Tues [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 03-Jun-2022
Ethiopia: Drought Hits Again but Climate Change Not Only Culprit
[Addis Standard] East Bale -- "People are in trouble down here, all the way from Darako up to Sawwena, they have left their homes to find better pasture and water sources," Aliyi S [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 03-Jun-2022
Nigeria: Acute Malnutrition - Emir of Kano Tasks Parents On Intensive Care
[Daily Trust] The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero, has said malnutrition, which has threatened the country for decades, could be addressed through the use of rich and multi-v [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 03-Jun-2022
Gambia: Banjul Market Women to Benefit From Organic Waste Project
[The Point] Women vendors at the Albert Market in Banjul are set to benefit from a mega project with the launch recently of an organic waste management project by Mbolo Association [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 03-Jun-2022
Uganda: Mafia Trying to Return Vinci Coffee Deal By Changing Resolution, Says MP Kivumbi
[Nile Post] The shadow minister of Finance, Muwanga Kivumbi has raised alarm over alleged plans to engineer changes in the recommendations by parliament's committee on trade agains [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 03-Jun-2022
Gambia: Agric Minister Hands Over Seeds Worth D13 Million
[The Point] Hon. Demba Sabally, minister for Agriculture through support from the World Bank funded project titled: 'Gambia Inclusive Resilient Agriculture Value Chain Development [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 03-Jun-2022
Nigeria: Nigeria, 59 Others Seek New WTO Rules On Food Subsidy to Battle Inflation
[This Day] No fewer than 60 countries, including Nigeria are demanding new World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules on food subsidy to battle inflation. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 03-Jun-2022
Nigeria: Around 54% of Nigerian Children Suffer From Multidimensional Poverty - Report
[Vanguard] No less than 54 per cent of children in Nigeria are 'multidimensionally poor' even as 47.4 per cent of children face monetary poverty, while 24.56 per cent of children f [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 03-Jun-2022
NIRSAL disburses N500m loan to Nasarawa farmers
The Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) has disbursed over N500,000,000 million to farmers in Nasarawa state from 2017 to 2020. Hea [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 02-Jun-2022
Nigerian Government to rehabilitate degraded land to boost agriculture
The National Agency for Great Green Wall (NAGGW) has said it is committed to improving the livelihood of over 20 million Nigerians by 2030, as the agency moves to rehabilitate de [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 02-Jun-2022
Nigeria attends Stockholm+50 Conference, highlights pollution, management of chemicals, others
The High Level Segment of the Conferences to the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam & Stockholm Conventions is underway in Sweden, with Nigeria as a party. This is the tenth meeti [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 02-Jun-2022
Southern Africa: Enforcing Competition Would Ease Food Price Hikes in East and Southern Africa
[The Conversation Africa] Small and medium-scale farmers and agri-businesses in east and southern Africa are getting a raw deal. To succeed they need fair and integrated regional m [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 02-Jun-2022
Buhari, Spanish King, Canvass Global Cooperation to Avert Looming Food Crisis
[This Day] President Muhammadu Buhari and King Felipe VI of Spain have canvassed the need for world leaders to come together and strategise on ways to avert the looming food crisis [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 02-Jun-2022
Nigeria: Council to Meet Over Rising Food Prices
[Premium Times] The council was set up in 2018 and is chaired by the president. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 02-Jun-2022
Somalia: UN Says 7.7 Million in Need of Humanitarian Aid in Somalia
[Shabelle] TOPSHOT - Yurub Abdi Jama, 35 years old and mother of 8 children, walks while holding a cup in an informal settlement of internally displaced people in the outskirts of [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 02-Jun-2022
Ghana: CAMFED Ghana, Ministry of Food and Agriculture Organise Agriculture Sensitization Workshop for Young Women
[GhanaToday] CAMFED Ghana partnered with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) to organise agriculture sensitization workshops for young women who are starting-up or growing [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 02-Jun-2022
Sudan: Farming in Sudan Has Become 'A Leap in the Dark'
[Dabanga] Khartoum -- Farmers in Sudan have expressed serious concerns about the agricultural season that is supposed to start this month. The June-to-September main rainfall seaso [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 02-Jun-2022
Agric Ministry Announces Price of Fertilizer As Crop Season Begins in Earnest
[The Point] The Ministry of Agriculture wishes to inform the general public that it has secured one hundred and forty thousand (140,000) bags of fertiliser for three thousand five [...]
AgricultureCountry: Gambia
Region: Africa
Date: 02-Jun-2022
East Africa: Aid Agencies - Some 20 Million Could Face Starvation in East Africa
[VOA] Nairobi -- Aid agencies warn the number of people facing starvation in the Horn of Africa is expected to reach 20 million by the end of September without a stronger response [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 02-Jun-2022
Mozambican Government Bans Meat Imports From Zimbabwe
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican government has prohibited, as of Wednesday of the current week, the import of animals, and animal products and by-products from Zimbabwe due to the r [...]
AgricultureCountry: Zimbabwe
Region: Africa
Date: 02-Jun-2022
Nigeria’s food council to meet over rising food prices
The council was set up in 2018 and is chaired by the president. The post Nigeria’s food council to meet over rising food prices appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria. [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 01-Jun-2022
Climate Change: Edo suffered worst tree cover loss in 2021, data shows
Edo was followed by Cross River. The two states lost a massive 399,000 hectares in the last 20 years, the data shows. The post Climate Change: Edo suffered worst tree cover loss in [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 01-Jun-2022
Sudan: FAO Ramps Up Support to Farmers As Starvation Threat Grows in East Africa
[UN News] The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is scaling up operations in Sudan, where 10.9 million people, 30 per cent of the population, are expected to need lifesaving s [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 01-Jun-2022
Ethiopia: Armyworms Devour More Than 3,000 Hectares of Crops in Southwest State
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Influx of Armyworm migrants devoured more than 3,000 hectares of crops in Ethiopia's Southwest Regional State, Masresha Belachew, the region's deput [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 01-Jun-2022
Nigeria: Manufacturers Struggle With Wheat, Energy Shortages
[VOA] Abuja, Nigeria -- Mmachukwu Orizu started her baby formula business six years ago after quitting her former job as a medical lab scientist. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 01-Jun-2022