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Get latest updates/news emanating from around the Middle-East and African region.
Lefa Receives Another Boost From NBL
[New Era] Namibia Breweries Limited (NBL) reaffirmed its long-standing relationship with taxi-hailing app, LEFA, on 29 March 2022 by sponsoring the LEFA shuttle and cab service to [...]
AgricultureCountry: Namibia
Region: Africa
Date: 31-Mar-2022
Pilot Project to Develop Organic Agricultural Products to Be Launched in Kasserine
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- A pilot project to develop organic agricultural products in the localities of Charayaa and Machrek Chames (Governorate of Kasserine) will be [...]
AgricultureCountry: Tunisia
Region: Africa
Date: 31-Mar-2022
Seychelles Plans to Activate Fisheries Harvest Strategy Policy By Third Quarter of 2022
[Seychelles News Agency] Seychelles expects to set up a fisheries harvest strategy policy in the third quarter of 2022 that will allow relevant authorities to monitor, examine and [...]
AgricultureCountry: Seychelles
Region: Africa
Date: 31-Mar-2022
Olam-Caraway’s multi-million dollar tomato investment records 40mt per hectare yield
Tribune Online Olam-Caraway’s multi-million dollar tomato investment records 40mt per hectare yield Kuda Gangara Integrated Tomato Farm, a project by Caraway (an Olam group c [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 30-Mar-2022
Teff, an Ancient Grain From Ethiopia, Takes Root On U.S. Plains
[VOA] Winnemucca, Nevada -- Teff, an ancient grain native to the Horn of Africa, has found new enthusiasts in the United States. It's being cultivated in the American West and Midw [...]
AgricultureCountry: Ethiopia
Region: Africa
Date: 30-Mar-2022
Cash Grants Power Enterprise in Spite of Drought
[WFP] Small payments from the World Food Programme are, for some, a doorway into business [...]
AgricultureCountry: Kenya
Region: Africa
Date: 30-Mar-2022
Microbiologists Start a Mushroom Business
[Namibian] MICROBIOLOGY graduates Abner Tomas (30) and Daisy Andjaba have ventured into a mushroom production business at home in Oshikoto region. [...]
AgricultureCountry: Namibia
Region: Africa
Date: 30-Mar-2022
Fish-Consumption Agency Comes of Age
[Namibian] THE Namibia Fish Consumption Promotion Trust (NFCPT) celebrated its 21st birthday under the theme 'Twenty Fished' on Monday. [...]
AgricultureCountry: Namibia
Region: Africa
Date: 30-Mar-2022
Rice Importers Reportedly Hoarding, Being Selective in Their Sales - Retailers Protest
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Hundreds of aggrieved rice dealers during the early morning hours of Tuesday, March 29, staged a violent protest on the Bushrod Island, outside Monrov [...]
AgricultureCountry: Liberia
Region: Africa
Date: 30-Mar-2022
Thousands Brace for Potentially Disastrous Rainy Season
[VOA] Geneva -- Aid agencies warn hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese are likely to suffer devastating consequences during this year's wet season without emergency internationa [...]
AgricultureCountry: South Sudan
Region: Africa
Date: 30-Mar-2022
The Race to Save Zambia's Wetlands #AfricaClimateCrisis
[UNEP] As the sun sets in central Zambia, orange rays reflect across the Lukanga Swamp, a vast wetland spanning 2,600 km2. [...]
AgricultureCountry: Zambia
Region: Africa
Date: 30-Mar-2022
Success of Seychelles' First Voluntary Fisheries Closure Zone - an Example That Should Inspire Others, Says Fisheries Minister #AfricaClimateCrisis
[Seychelles News Agency] Fishermen in Seychelles are being encouraged to take initiatives that will help protect fish stocks instead of waiting for the government to come up with p [...]
Agriculture FisheryCountry: Seychelles
Region: Africa
Date: 30-Mar-2022
Chakwera Inspects Crops in Mangochi
[MBC] Earlier today President Dr Lazarus Chakwera, continued with the crop inspection tour in Mangochi District, where he inspected maize fields at Nchisa Village in the area of Tr [...]
AgricultureCountry: Malawi
Region: Africa
Date: 30-Mar-2022
Zambia: As Forests Fall, Zambians Race to Find Alternatives to Logging #AfricaClimateCrisis
[UNEP] Located in Zambia's North-Western Province, the greater Kafue National Park and West Lunga ecosystem complex was once home to an abundance of ancient rosewood trees and a ho [...]
AgricultureCountry: Zambia
Region: Africa
Date: 30-Mar-2022
Govt Scraps 42 Coffee Levies
[Daily News] THE government has scrapped 42 out of 47 levies that were being charged from coffee growers in Kagera region as part of continued efforts to improve the cash crop prod [...]
AgricultureCountry: Tanzania
Region: Africa
Date: 30-Mar-2022
Michigan State University don receives $4m grant for agricultural research on MSMEs in Nigeria, Tanzania
Tribune Online Michigan State University don receives $4m grant for agricultural research on MSMEs in Nigeria, Tanzania AN Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 29-Mar-2022
AFAN urges Buhari to revive NFRA to ensure food sufficiency
Tribune Online AFAN urges Buhari to revive NFRA to ensure food sufficiency ALL Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to as a matter of [...]
Agriculture Food & BeverageCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 29-Mar-2022
Practitioners intesify efforts on development of organic agriculture in Nigeria
Tribune Online Practitioners intesify efforts on development of organic agriculture in Nigeria ORGANIC agriculture practitioners in Nigeria have intensified efforts targeted at [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 29-Mar-2022
As NCRI releases three hybrid seed varieties, farmers predict bumper harvest this season
Tribune Online As NCRI releases three hybrid seed varieties, farmers predict bumper harvest this season The National Cereal Research Institute (NCRI) Badeggi recently released [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 29-Mar-2022
FEC Receives Organic Agriculture Policy For Adoption, Approval
The Vice-President of Association of Organic Agriculture Practitioners of Nigeria and also the Country Coordinator of Ecological Organic Agriculture Initiative in Nigeria, Olugbeng [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 29-Mar-2022
Delta State Signs $40m Agreement With American Firm to Transform Songhai Farm
The Delta State government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Adventium Global Delta Consortium Limited, a subsidiary of Adventium Global Incorporation, United Sta [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 29-Mar-2022
Young Rice Farmers Train On Community Seed Production
The Federal Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development, under the Department of Agriculture Rice Value Chain, has trained young rice farmers drawn from northwestern states of N [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 29-Mar-2022
African scientists call for better forests management to boost climate resilience
African scientist called for enhanced protection of the continent’s forest landscapes given their immense role in climate response, poverty alleviation, food and water security. [...]
ForestryCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 29-Mar-2022
Bakers Raise Bread Prices in Maputo and Matola
[AIM] Maputo -- Some bakers in Maputo and the neighbouring city of Matola have increased the price of bread by up to 25 per cent - but the Mozambican Bakers' Association (AMOPAO) s [...]
Agriculture Food & BeverageCountry: Mozambique
Region: Africa
Date: 29-Mar-2022
Tunisia-Canada - Import of Cereals Under Review
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The ways and means to boost trade between Tunisia and Canada, the promotion of olive oil and handicrafts exports and cereal imports, were th [...]
AgricultureCountry: Tunisia
Region: Africa
Date: 29-Mar-2022