AFRICAN & MIDDLE EAST NEWS
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Guinness Ghana Limited honors sorghum farmers as Kenya Breweries Limited promotes gender equality
GHANA – Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited, a subsidiary of Diageo Plc has honoured deserving sorghum farmers from the Northern, Upper East, Upper West, and North…
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World Bank to finance smallholder farmers and agri-enterprises in Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire
WEST AFRICA – The World Bank has approved new financing through the International Development Association (IDA), to increase productivity and market access for smallholder farmers…
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Makerere University on the road to availing first Anti-Tick Vaccine in Uganda
UGANDA – Makerere University in Uganda has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Alfasan Uganda Limited, to facilitate production of test batches of an…
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Ethiopia launches US$231m sugar factory, appoints Ernst & Young to oversee privatization of state-owned sugar plants
ETHIOPIA – The Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed has inaugurated the long-waited Tana Beles Sugar Factory one, constructed in the Amhara regional state. Delayed…
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Developing countries urged to uphold food safety measures adopted during pandemic period
AFRICA – The world cannot over emphasis on the importance of ensuring the adoption of food safety practices and technologies in the entire agriculture and…