Latest News Updates
Get latest updates/news emanating from around the Middle-East and African region.
Sainsbury’s launches AI-powered self-checkouts to streamline shopping experience
UK – Sainsbury’s, the second-largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdo [...]
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Date: 11-Sep-2024
Nigeria: Special Report - Classrooms in Shambles: Sorry State of Ibadan's Forgotten Schools
[Premium Times] I.M.G. Primary Schools has four separate schools in the same compound: Primary Schools 1, 2, and 3 and Alafia Basic School. [...]
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Date: 11-Sep-2024
Nigeria: Maiduguri Dam Collapse Represents Failure in Governance - RDI
[Vanguard] The Renevlyn Development Initiative (RDI) has linked the collapse of the Alau Dam in Borno and inundation of farmlands and hundreds of homes in Maiduguri, the Borno Stat [...]
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Date: 11-Sep-2024
Africa: Mixed Fortunes for Africa's Rapid Urbanization -- Report
[IPS] Bulawayo, Zimbabwe -- A new report says African cities will record rapid urbanization in the next decade, creating a mixed bag of socio-economic opportunities and challenges [...]
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Date: 11-Sep-2024
Africa: Africa Food Systems Forum 2024 - Mobilising Resources for a Sustainable Future
[New Times] The Africa Food Systems Forum 2024, held in Kigali, Rwanda, brought together leaders, innovators, and stakeholders from across the continent to discuss one of the most [...]
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Date: 11-Sep-2024
Zimbabwe: 931 Cattle Die of Starvation
[The Herald] Government has scaled up measures to reduce the impact of drought on livestock and save the 2, 8 million cattle that are at risk of dying this year as 931 beasts have [...]
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Date: 11-Sep-2024
Nigeria: Nigeria Health Watch to Host Nutrition Forum On Addressing Coordination Bottlenecks for Improved Nutrition Outcomes
[Nigeria Health Watch] In response to the ongoing challenges in achieving better nutrition outcomes in Nigeria, Nigeria Health Watch is organising a Nutrition Forum titled Addressi [...]
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Date: 11-Sep-2024
Nigeria: 27% of Children in Two Zamfara Communities Are Malnourished - MSF
[Premium Times] Of the 97,149 children screened in 21 different urban and rural locations, 27 per cent were found to be suffering from acute malnutrition. [...]
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Date: 11-Sep-2024
Zimbabwe: Smallholder Tobacco Farmers Defying Odds
[The Herald] Smallholder farmers, constituting 60 percent of beneficiaries of the Government's fast-track land reform programme, continue defying odds and leading in tobacco farmin [...]
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Date: 11-Sep-2024
Zimbabwe: 'Adopt Recommended Seedbed Practices'
[The Herald] Kutsaga Research is calling on farmers to adopt recommended seedbed practices, if they are to get high tobacco yield such as 4 500kg per hectare. [...]
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Date: 11-Sep-2024
Nigeria: Federal Govt Targets 500,000 Smallholder Farmers in South-South With New Agric Initiative
[Leadership] The federal government has launched an ambitious agricultural initiative, "Project Earn From The Soil," targeting over 500,000 smallholder farmers, fisherfolk, agribus [...]
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Date: 11-Sep-2024
Africa: Rwanda Woos Investors to Inject $1.7bn Into Major Agriculture Opportunities At Concluded Africa Food Systems Forum
[New Times] From avocado to chilli, to poultry, Rwanda has highlighted major agricultural and livestock opportunities that need over $1.68 billion in investment, with greater poten [...]
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Date: 11-Sep-2024
Nigeria: Govt Says Brass Fertiliser Project Has Reached Final Stage With Signing of $3.3bn Industrial Park Deal
[This Day] Abuja -- The federal government yesterday announced that the take-off of the Brass Fertiliser Petrochemical Company Limited (BFPCL) was at its final stages, stressing th [...]
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Date: 11-Sep-2024
East Africa: Kenya Bans Sugar Imports From Outside COMESA, EAC As Local Production Improves
[New Times] Kenya on Tuesday, September 10, imposed a ban on sugar imports from outside the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the East African Community (E [...]
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Date: 11-Sep-2024
Nigeria: Nigerian Farmers Lack Insurance - Payouts Triggered By Weather Data Offer a Solution
[The Conversation Africa] Agriculture is hugely important to Nigeria. It makes up about a quarter of the country's economy, and almost half of the population are smallholder farmer [...]
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Date: 11-Sep-2024
Kenya: African Youth Commit to Food System Transformation Ahead of COP29
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Youth from across Africa have pledged to take a leading role in transforming the continent's food systems in the lead-up to COP29, scheduled for November in [...]
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Date: 11-Sep-2024
Angola: T-Mariz Farm Invests in Rice and Wheat Flour Production in Moxico
[ANGOP] Luena -- The T-Mariz farm, a private initiative, located in the town of Luando, in the Province of Moxico, plans to produce wheat flour and rice in the 2024/25 agricultural [...]
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Date: 11-Sep-2024
Malawi: Tale of Two Villages - in Malawi, Farmers Point the Way As Drought Drives Hunger
[WFP] World Food Programme urgently needs funds to expand irrigation projects as communities across Southern Africa reel from El Niño [...]
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Date: 11-Sep-2024
South Africa: Outraged Over Years of Delays on Sarah Baartman Project - South African News Briefs - September 11, 2024
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Date: 11-Sep-2024
JBS invests US$12.5M to expand metal packaging operations
BRAZIL – JBS SA, one of the largest meat processing enterprises in the world, rev [...]
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Date: 10-Sep-2024
Tate & Lyle acquires over 130,000 shares
UK – Tate & Lyle PLC has acquired 137,085 of its own ordinary shares as part [...]
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Date: 10-Sep-2024
Maldives permanently bans longline fishing
MALDIVES – More than 100 international scientists have joined forces with conserv [...]
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Date: 10-Sep-2024
Tesco launches Transcend Retail Solutions to enhance online grocery operations
UK – Tesco, a British multinational groceries retailer, is launching a new e-com [...]
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Date: 10-Sep-2024
Carrefour to re-enter India via franchise partnership with Apparel Group
INDIA – Carrefour, the French retail giant, is set to return to India by June 202 [...]
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Date: 10-Sep-2024
IFCO debuts digitally enabled reusable fish crate and plastic pallets
GERMANY – International Food Container Organization (IFCO), a leading provider of [...]
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Date: 10-Sep-2024