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Get latest updates/news emanating from around the Middle-East and African region.
Vietnam coffee exports hit record US$6.42B in eight months
VIETNAM – Vietnam’s coffee industry achieved a new milestone in the first eight mo [...]
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Date: 10-Sep-2025
TEMEC unveils new monofilament tea plucking baskets to ease burden on farmers
KENYA – Tea Machinery Engineering Company Limited (TEMEC) has successfully concluded [...]
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Date: 10-Sep-2025
IFF launches SipScape platform to drive innovation in the global adult beverage market
USA – IFF, a global leader in food, beverage, health and wellness, has introduced Si [...]
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Date: 10-Sep-2025
Mauritania launches US$446M sugar project to boost local production, cut imports
MAURITANIA – Mauritania has unveiled plans to establish a US$446 million large-scale [...]
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Date: 10-Sep-2025
U.S. tariffs slash Brazilian coffee exports as shipments to Latin America surge
BRAZIL – Brazil’s coffee exports to the United States fell sharply in August, whil [...]
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Date: 10-Sep-2025
Pura Beverage Company secures major investment to drive global expansion of low-sugar drinks
SOUTH AFRICA – South Africa-based Pura Beverage Company has secured a major inve [...]
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Date: 10-Sep-2025
Amrit Bottlers inaugurates US$79.4M Coca-Cola Plant in Gorakhpur
INDIA – Amrit Bottlers, a flagship company of SLMG Group and authorised Coca-Cola [...]
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Date: 10-Sep-2025
Diageo Sells Sheridan’s Coffee-Cream Liqueur to Casa Redondo
PORTUGAL – Diageo has announced the sale of its coffee-cream liqueur brand Sherid [...]
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Date: 10-Sep-2025
Ghana tomato farmers face post-harvest losses
Tomato farmers in the Ziope area of the Agortime-Ziope District in Ghana’s Volta Region report recurring post-harvest losses, a situation they say has continued for years without [...]
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Date: 10-Sep-2025
Neo Industry to expand its Fondjomoko plant to raise cocoa grinding capacity
Cameroonian cocoa processor Neo Industry is expanding its Fondjomoko factory in the Western Highlands to triple grinding capacity. Minister of Trade Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana vi [...]
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Date: 10-Sep-2025
Cameroon’s export prices rise 6.9% in 2024 according to INS report
Cameroon’s export price index rose 6.9% in 2024, driven primarily by agricultural products, particularly cocoa, rubber, and coffee, according to the National Institute of Statist [...]
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Date: 10-Sep-2025
Morocco: Historic Monuments in Marrakech Undergo Post-Earthquake Rehabilitation
[MAP] Marrakesh -- Marrakesh has launched a large-scale program to restore historic monuments damaged in the 2023 Al Haouz earthquake, with work carried out according to traditiona [...]
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Date: 10-Sep-2025
East Africa: Ethiopia Outfoxes Egypt Over the Nile's Water With Its Mighty Dam
[Ghanaian Times] Inaugurate one of the world's biggest dams on a tributary of the River Nile, burying a colonial-era treaty that saw the UK guarantee the North African nation the l [...]
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Date: 10-Sep-2025
Eritrea: Construction of Additional Classrooms
[Shabait] Asmara, 09 September 2025 - As part of efforts to accommodate more school-aged children, new classrooms have been constructed at Adi-Hawsha Elementary School at a cost of [...]
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Date: 10-Sep-2025
North Africa: Egypt Invites Investors to Apply for 11th Industrial Land Offering Ahead of Sept. 11 Deadline
[Egypt Online] Ministry of Industry has invited industrial investors to apply for the 11th round of industrial land allocations through the Made in Egypt Digital Platform (madein.e [...]
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Date: 10-Sep-2025
Africa: Child Obesity Level Surpasses Underweight Cases Worldwide for the First Time, Unicef Warns
[UN News] For the first time in history, obesity has surpassed those underweight as the most common form of malnutrition among school-age children and adolescents worldwide, UNICEF [...]
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Date: 10-Sep-2025
Uganda: Bunyoro Kingdom , Encot Microfinance Ink MOU to Promote Soya Bean Farming
[Nile Post] The Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom (BKK) in partnership with ENCOT microfinance ltd have inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in a bid to promote soya bean farming as a sh [...]
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Date: 10-Sep-2025
Mauritius: Food Production - Evaluation of New High-Yield Potato Variety
[Government of Mauritius] A new high-yield potato variety dubbed 'Everest', was evaluated yesterday during a field visit held at Robinson, Curepipe. The visit was jointly organised [...]
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Date: 10-Sep-2025
Africa: Obesity Exceeds Underweight for the First Time Among School-Age Children and Adolescents Globally - UNICEF
[Unicef] One in 10 children worldwide living with obesity. Exposure to the marketing of ultra-processed foods found to be widespread [...]
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Date: 10-Sep-2025
Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Targets Asian Beef Markets, Scales Up Foot and Mouth Disease Surveillance
[New Zimbabwe] Zimbabwe is stepping up efforts to expand beef exports to Asian markets, with authorities intensifying surveillance of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) to safeguard herd [...]
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Date: 10-Sep-2025
Africa: 20 Million More Children in Sub-Saharan Africa Now Receive Govt-Led School Meals - WFP Report
[WFP] DAKAR/JOHANNESBURG/NAIROBI: Twenty million more children in Sub-Saharan Africa are now receiving school meals through government-led programmes than in 2022, according to the [...]
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Date: 10-Sep-2025
Africa: Feeding the Future - Africa Surges Ahead On School Meals
[WFP] Millions of new students are benefitting from school meals, as governments increasingly take leadership of WFP-supported programmes [...]
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Date: 10-Sep-2025
Uganda: Uganda,South Korea Launch Shs 14.8 Bn Rice Seed Project
[Nile Post] Uganda's Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry, and Fisheries (MAAIF), has partnered with South Korea's Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA), to l [...]
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Date: 10-Sep-2025
Kuwait’s fish sales reach US$3.2M in first quarter
KUWAIT – Kuwait’s Central Statistical Bureau has reported that the total value of locally sold fish in the first quarter of 2025 amounted to about US$3.2 million (KD970 [...]
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Date: 09-Sep-2025
Oman aquaculture output rises to 5,500 tonnes worth US$32.4 million
OMAN – Aquaculture production in Oman reached 5,500 tonnes in 2024, valued at more than US$32.4 million, according to figures released at the Fisheries Investment Opportu [...]
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Date: 09-Sep-2025