Uganda: Museveni to Attend 5th Private Sector CEO Retreat in Kampala

AfDB boss facing new graft probe

The African Development Bank on Thursday launched an independent inquiry into allegations of embezzlement and preferential treatment against its embattled president Akinwumi Adesina, who is seeking re-election in August, its board of governors

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Source: The East African

BUWEMBO: Water everywhere, yet we have been crying for free

It is amazing the effort and investment people put in systems to divert NWSC water to their premises

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Source: The East African

Africa: Unprecedented Crisis Presents Unique Opportunities for Unprecedented Action - Machel, Okonjo-Iweala, Songwe, Ramos

There is no way Africa can face this food crisis without empowering rural women, in particular rural women’s associations, in the response to

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Source: allAfrica.com

East Africa: Lake Victoria Could Burst Its Banks More Often in the Future. What Can Be Done

In recent weeks, water levels in Lake Victoria have reached unprecedented heights as a result of heavy rains in the East African region which started in August

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Source: allAfrica.com

KABAARA: Budget messages that are hidden in plain sight

Whether or not national government ministries are in a similar state, this is a good time to ponder how much longer and further Kenya can go when taxes “chase” spending rather than the other way

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Source: Business Daily

African Business Roundtable (ABR) President, Samuel Dossou Aworet Sends a Message of Solidarity of the African Private Sector with the African Development Bank Group

The African Business Roundtable (ABR) relationship with the African Development Bank (AfDB) that has lasted over three decades, was further concretized by a strategic partnership for the promotion of investment in Africa, expressed in an Agreement (LOI) signed in August

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Source: allAfrica.com

South Africa: COVID-19 - the State Cannot Save Us

South Africa's biomedical response has been exemplary, but it has failed to mobilise social movements essential for tackling public health

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WATCH: Stars gather for online festival to combat hunger in Amazon rainforest

More than a million Brazilians have been diagnosed with COVID-19, many of them indigenous people in the Amazon

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Nigeria: Exclusive - AfDB 'Whistleblower' Allegations Against Me False - Adesina

The president of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, told the bank's ethics committee that allegations of impropriety and fraud against him were "frivolous and not based on objective and solid facts", his defence obtained exclusively by PREMIUM TIMES

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Source: allAfrica.com

Somalia: Govt Starts Aerial Spraying to Stop Desert Locust Invasion

Young desert locusts that have not yet grown wings jump in the air as they are approached, as a visiting delegation from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) observes them, in the desert near Garowe, in the semi-autonomous Puntland region of

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Source: allAfrica.com

Rwanda: Government Plans to Spend Rwf3.2 Trillion in 2020-2021

The Government is expected to spend Frw3,245.7 billion in 2020-2021 fiscal year, which is Rwf228.7 billion higher than the revised budget estimates of

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Source: allAfrica.com

University of Arkansas Pine Bluff (1873- )

The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff was created by the Arkansas Legislative Act of 1873. The University was established for the convenience and well-being of the poorer classes” which meant African Americans in the state. The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff is the oldest

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Probe storm threatens to cut short AfDB boss race

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Benin

By the end of the 1980s, Benins economy was near collapse. As its oil boom ended, Nigeria expelled 100,000 Beninese migrant workers and closed the border with Benin. Kérékous socialist collectivization of Benins agriculture and the ballooning bureaucracy further damaged the economy. By

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SA seeks R1.5-trillion for decade-long infrastructure boom

Digital infrastructure forms part of the infrastructure investment plan

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Source: TechCentral

Senegal: COVID-19 Creates a Unique Opportunity for an Inclusive and Sustainable Food Policy

Nowadays, the food question is not only a challenge for the government but also for professional agricultural organizations, the private sector and citizens

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Source: allAfrica.com

Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia sānt lo͞o´shə, –sēə [key], island nation (2005 est. pop. 166,000), 238 sq mi (616 sq km), West Indies, one of the Windward Islands. The capital is Castries . Morne Gimie (3,145 ft/959 m high) and the twin pyramidal cones known as the Pitons are the most imposing landmarks. The country

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Uganda: Govt Selects Avocado As High Value Export Crop

Government has selected avocado as one of the high economic potential crops beside coffee that will be promoted and grown throughout the country for export

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Source: allAfrica.com

Rwanda: MPs Want Clear Plan to Increase Agricultural Loans

MP Théogène Munyangeyo, Chairperson of the Committee, said that agriculture received only 1.5 per cent of the total loans provided by commercial banks in Rwanda in the 2018/2019 financial

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Source: allAfrica.com

Mali: As Mali Fights Coronavirus, Cotton Farmers Fear Loss of Climate Aid

Bamako — As cotton price tumbles during pandemic, farmers worry the state support they rely on to grow food in a warming climate will dry up

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Source: allAfrica.com

Africa: Safeguarding Africa's Food Security in the Age of COVID-19

With each climate shock, whether drought, flood or cyclone, farmers suffer directly, while shortages elevate the price of food for

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Source: allAfrica.com

Amazon rainforest faces fire threat—again | Afro

Institute alerts for evidence of soil changes in the Amazon show areas that have been deforested, damaged by logging and show signs of burning or mining, as well as plant degradation from February 2016 to June 2020 in the Brazilian Legal

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Africa: From Shame to Pride - Repositioning Agriculture for Africa's Youth

To do so as quickly as possible, Africa will need an educated new generation of young farmers to transform the continent’s food security and

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Source: allAfrica.com

KRA to lose power of raising fuel, beer taxes

FILE PHOTO | NMG

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Paul Cuffee

Not to be confused with the Reverend Paul Cuffee (1754-1812), who is honored on the liturgical Calendar of the Episcopal Church

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Tanzania: Post-Harvest Losses Becomes Tanzania's Loss in Youth Farming

"The problem of post-harvest losses in the agriculture sector is huge," Adella Ng'atigwa, a researcher and agricultural economist at the Ministry of Agriculture, tells

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Source: allAfrica.com

Nigeria: New Electricity Tariff, VAT Rate to Sustain Upward Pressure On Prices

Nigeria's annual inflation rate rose for the ninth consecutive months to 12.4 percent in May from 12.34 percent in April, the highest in 25 months, with analysts projecting that the upward trend will persist, driven by commencement of the new electricity tariff and Value Added Tax (VAT) as well as

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Key state agencies are prisoners of political crowding

By making public the fact that it has now moved the country’s agriculture sector to the top of its agenda (ahead of tourism) in terms of targeting foreign investment for the country, the Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), the country’s national investment and export promotion agency, has

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Stars gather for online festival to combat hunger in Amazon rainforest

More than a million Brazilians have been diagnosed with COVID-19, many of them indigenous people in the Amazon

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Source: Dallas Post Tribune – Serving the Black community without fear or favor since 1947.

Tea farmers to get lower bonuses

Speaking during a press briefing at Iriani Tea factory in Nyeri, KTDA Chairman Peter Kanyago said farmers have produced 1.2 billion kilogrammes of green leaf compared to 931 million kilos during the same period last

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