AFRICA

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | The 25th Ordinary meeting of the East African Community (EAC) monetary affairs committee has said growth in the region recovered in 2021 to an average of 4.2 percent, the EAC said in a communique late on Friday. The communique released at the end of …

United Nations | Xinhua | UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres held a telephone call on Friday with Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah, prime minister of the Government of National Unity of Libya, to discuss the latest developments in the country, Guterres’ press office said on Saturday. The secretary-general expressed deep concern at the current severe …

Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | The eradication of hunger and malnutrition in Africa will only be realized once governments leverage nature-based interventions to strengthen the resilience of farming systems in the face of climatic stresses, experts said on Friday. Speaking at a forum in the resort town of Naivasha, located about …

Brazzaville, Congo | Xinhua | One in five adults and one in 10 children and teenagers are projected to be obese by December 2023 in 10 high-burden African countries, if no robust measures are taken to reverse the trends, said the World Health Organization (WHO) regional office for Africa on Thursday. …

Juba, South Sudan | Xinhua | South Sudan’s permanent ceasefire is increasingly at risk of unraveling following the recent intensified fighting in the oil-rich states of Upper Nile and Unity states, the country’s ceasefire monitors said on Wednesday. Asrat Denero Amad, the new chairperson for the Ceasefire Transitional Security Arrangement Monitoring …

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Xinhua | The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations on Wednesday said the desert locust upsurge that had ravaged the Horn of Africa for more than two years has ended. “The current desert locust upsurge has finally ended in the Horn of Africa after …

Ethiopia announced operation of the first two turbines of its multi-billion-dollar hydropower dam to generate electricity Cairo, Egypt | Xinhua | Egypt’s Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Mohamed Abdel-Aty held talks in Cairo with visiting European Union’s special envoy for the Horn of Africa Annette Weber on the developments of …

Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | Kenya on Tuesday announced that it will woo landlocked east African nations to use its China-built Lamu port to enable them to boost their international trade. Stephen Ikua, the director-general and chief executive officer of the Lamu Port, South Sudan, Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor Development Authority …

Khartoum, Sudan | Xinhua | The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Monday warned that food stocks in Sudan could run out in one month because of a severe funding shortfall. “Limited resources have been prioritized to ensure that the needs of the most vulnerable people in Sudan are met …

No man qualifies as a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problems of wheat | WANDILE SIHLOBO | The words of the ancient Greek philosopher, Socrates. Wheat and other grains are back at the heart of geopolitics following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Both countries play a major role in …