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Top 10 Richest Countries In Africa

Top 10 Richest Countries In Africa

Africa is home to some of the richest countries in the world, in part due to its oil-rich soil and human capital. With GDPs going up as high as $594.257 Billion. According to statistics provided by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), these are currently, according to the figures provided at the time, the Top 10 […]

Agriculture Minister Stresses Strong Relations With Tanzania

Agriculture Minister Stresses Strong Relations With Tanzania

Agriculture Minister Essam Fayed stressed the strong relations between Egypt and Tanzania in the various fields especially the agriculture domain. The minister made these remarks during leading the Egyptian delegation to the inauguration ceremony of Tanzanian President John Magufuli in the capital Dar es Salaam. The Egyptian minister conveyed the greetings and wishes of President […]

Why It’s So Hard to Fight Fisheries Crime

Why It’s So Hard to Fight Fisheries Crime

A court in São Tomé and Príncipe, a small oceanic island off the African west coast, recently delivered an historical verdict in the fight against the transnational criminal syndicates involved in fisheries crime. The court convicted the Chilean captain and two Spanish officials of the Thunder, a Nigerian-flagged vessel considered to be one of the […]

World Leaders in the Diamond Industry Gather for the 2nd International Diamond Conference 2015

World Leaders in the Diamond Industry Gather for the 2nd International Diamond Conference 2015

The World’s leaders in the Diamond Industry will come together in Africa’s best-kept secret, Namibia, for the International Diamond Conference 2015. The Conference is themed: Omugongo, A Cut above the Rest. This prestigious event will be held at the Safari Conference Centre in the capital Windhoek, Namibia. This summit of Speakers from across the world […]

COMESA and Microsoft collaborate to promote access, skills and innovation in 19 African Countries

COMESA and Microsoft collaborate to promote access, skills and innovation in 19 African Countries

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) through the COMESA Business Council (CBC) and Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) have taken a step toward strengthening their working alliance today by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which sets out how they will collaborate in the areas of access to technology, development of relevant skills and […]

KZN Farmers Battle to Keep Their Livestock Alive As Drought Worsens

KZN Farmers Battle to Keep Their Livestock Alive As Drought Worsens

Some KwaZulu-Natal farmers are having to buy water from stores to keep their cattle and other livestock alive as the drought conditions worsen. As another month passes with no rain in sight, KZN farmers have lost 30 000 head of cattle this year alone due to the province’s driest year in over a century. With […]

Workshop On Biosecurity and Aquatic Animal Health Opens Today

Workshop On Biosecurity and Aquatic Animal Health Opens Today

A three-day workshop on biosecurity and aquatic animal health opened this morning at the Fisheries Training and Extension Centre in Pointe aux Sables. The Minister of Ocean Economy, Marine Resources, Fisheries, Shipping and Outer Islands, Mr Premdut Koonjoo, was present. Organised by the Competent Authority Seafood, the workshop aims to empower staff of the institution […]

Botswana Company Unveils Cattle Tracking Devise

Botswana Company Unveils Cattle Tracking Devise

Innovators Perspective in partnership with Wandering Shepherd Company has introduced a livestock and wildlife tracking system dubbed Wireless Rumen Bolus (WRB). This livestock and wildlife tracking system was invented, developed and produced in Canada. The product comes in at a time when cattle producers in SADC and other regions in Africa rely on ear tags […]

EU Gives Nigeria €6.5 Billion Trade Development Grant

EU Gives Nigeria €6.5 Billion Trade Development Grant

The European Union (EU) is to provide financial trade-related development assistance for Nigeria’s growth and development, through a trade grant of about €6.5 billion (about N1.6 trillion) for every four years, till 2035. The EU Ambassador and Head of EU Delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Mr. Michel Arrion, who disclosed this during a media luncheon […]

Zimbabwean Girls Sold For Marriage As Hunger Bites

Zimbabwean Girls Sold For Marriage As Hunger Bites

DRESSED in tattered clothes and with nothing on her cracked feet, Faith (15) resembles a street tramp. Perhaps, judging by her circumstances, she would envy to be one of the scores of street children that roam Zimbabwe’s urban areas. They at least enjoy some freedom. The impoverished family of the teenager has married her to […]

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