[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican Minister of Agriculture, Roberto Albino, believes that Portugal is one of the country's crucial partners for attraction of new investments and technologies to boost agro-industrial development and economic growth
[UN News] UN humanitarians working in war-torn Sudan on Friday highlighted rapidly growing needs among the more than 100,000 displaced people now sheltering in camps in the city of El Obeid.
[New Era] Namibia recorded a N$510 million trade surplus on food items in between May 2025 and May 2026, supported by strong exports of fish and meat products, according to the Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA).
[RFI] Four Ugandan farmers filed a case against the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) at the UK's High Court on Tuesday, seeking to have Ugandan constitutional, environmental and climate law applied to EACOP Ltd, the UK-registered company financing the project
[UCT] Some children's products sold in South Africa may contain traces of toxic chemicals that were banned globally years ago, a University of Cape Town (UCT) study found. The study, titled "Legacy brominated flame retardants in children's products in South Africa: Evidence of toxic recycling in a global circular economy", has been published in the Heliyon journal.
[RFI] More than 17 million people across nine conflict-hit states in northern Nigeria face severe hunger, the UN's food agency (WFP) has said, warning that violence and funding cuts are driving food insecurity to its worst level in nearly a decade. Stripped of their livelihoods, some people are fleeing across the border into neighbouring Benin.
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Government of Liberia (GoL) has commended outgoing International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Country Representative Madam Pascaline Barankeba for her outstanding contributions to strengthening Liberia's agriculture sector and deepening collaboration between the Government and IFAD.
[African Arguments] Historically, the image of a typical Southern Nigerian farmer was never complete without the muturu cattle breed grazing quietly behind the homestead. It was often tethered at the back of the house, chewing calmly on cassava peels and fresh grass cut by the owner or housed in a simple pen during rest. The muturu is an indigenous cattle breed characterized by diverse coat colour patterns and unique adaptation to the humid, tsetse-infested environments of West Africa, where it has traditionally provided
[DW] Cocoa prices reached a peak in 2024 before plummeting by nearly 75%, dealing a financial blow to millions of farmers in Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire. Will the crisis mark a turning point for the sector?
[New Times] The Rwanda Agriculture and Animal Resources Development Board (RAB) has said the long-delayed Mahama I irrigation project in Kirehe District is expected to become operational by October after progress on electricity infrastructure helped address key implementation bottlenecks.
[The Conversation Africa] Urban agriculture, where plants and livestock are farmed within city limits, is increasingly recognised and promoted as a solution to food insecurity and a way to green cities so that they adapt to climate change.
[WFP] Four years ago, donor mobilization and a massive humanitarian scale-up by WFP and partners averted famine in Somalia. Now, as needs soar, funds dry up and drought's fallout pummels the Horn of Africa nation, the race is on to stop another hunger catastrophe
[WFP] As conflict, flooding, displacement and economic shocks converge, millions of people across South Sudan are facing emergency levels of hunger. The World Food Programme is racing to deliver food and nutrition assistance in hard-to-reach areas, but access and funding constraints threaten to leave families without support.
[Scrolla] The Competition Commission of South Africa found that the farm price for white maize dropped sharply by December last year. Shops did not pass these large savings on to buyers and stores kept the cost of maize meal very high.
[WFP] WFP and other humanitarians are stretching lean budgets to support millions reeling from conflict, displacement and climate shocks in the Central African nation
[Daily News] Zanzibar -- THE public has been urged to adhere to proper animal slaughter procedures to prevent diseases that could pose serious risks to human health.
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