Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | Africa’s drylands could be the solution to the continent’s hunger and malnutrition if governments commit resources to convert them into hubs for irrigated farming, experts said on Friday. Speaking at a virtual forum convened by Futures Agriculture and Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) in Nairobi, …
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Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | East Africa’s economic growth is projected to rise to 4.1 percent in 2021, up from 0.4 percent in 2020, the African Development Bank (AfDB) said on Thursday. According to the East Africa Regional Economic Outlook 2021, the economic performance will be boosted by the ongoing global …
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Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | The Africa Export Import (Afrexim) Bank has committed 133 billion shillings (about 1.2 billion U.S. dollars) to fund industrialization in Africa, the bank said on Thursday. Maureen Mba, head of MANSA Initiative, Afrexim Bank told Xinhua in Nairobi that the funds will be made available to …
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Brazzaville, Congo | Xinhua | Just five African countries, less than 10 percent of Africa’s 54 nations, are projected to hit the year-end target of fully vaccinating 40 percent of their people, said the World Health Organization (WHO)on Thursday. Three African countries, including Seychelles, Mauritius and Morocco, have already met the …
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Time for global leaders, development organisations to invest in Africa’s modern agriculture technologies COMMENT | BETH DUNFORD | More than six out of every 10 people in Sub-Saharan Africa work in the continent’s agriculture sector. We may not realise that what grows from African soil may be connected to some …
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The digital platform is set to build trust and cut the transaction costs of trading in AfCFTA Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | The African Export-Import Bank’s new digital Customer Due Diligence (CDD) platform, called Mansa, is set to promote cross-border trade in Africa, says the product head Maureen Mba. …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Scientists, entrepreneurs, institutional leaders and students from Africa and beyond are meeting in Kigali, Rwanda and online for the second continental African Plant Breeders Association Conference (APBAConf2021). The week’s long conference is expected to end on Oct.29. Guided by the theme, “Accelerating Genetic Gains in …
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Revisiting Museveni’s ideas about Uganda and our wider continent after his 35 years (and counting) in power THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | And so it was that recently, while perusing my library, I decided to reread President Yoweri Museveni’s book, What is Africa’s Problem. It is …
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San Francisco, U.S. | Xinhua | Boeing forecast on Thursday that Africa’s airlines will require 1,030 new airplanes by 2040 valued at 160 billion U.S. dollars and aftermarket services such as manufacturing and repair worth 235 billion dollars. The company shared the projection as part of the 2021 Commercial Market Outlook …
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | The World Travel Awards (WTA) has declared Tanzania’s Serengeti as the 2021 Africa’s leading national park, the Tanzania National Parks Authority (TANAPA) said in a statement on Thursday. The statement signed by TANAPA’s senior assistant conservation commissioner for corporate communications, Pascal Shelutete, said Serengeti becomes …
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