The Mozambican government will subsidize the purchase of cotton by five meticais (about 7.9 cents) a kilogramme to crash prices and benefit 600,000 farmers. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Celso Correia, announced the subsidy during a meeting with producers, on Wednesday, in Maputo. “The subsidy and price stabilisation will impact around 100,000 families, representing […]
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has died after a helicopter, carrying him and other officials, crashed in a mountainous area of the country in poor weather. State TV gave no immediate cause for the crash that occurred in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province in the early hours of Monday. The 63-year-old leader, hardline factions in Iranian politics, was […]
Algeria, on Sunday, began its third general agricultural census, a critical measure to develop agricultural policies aimed at enhancing the country’s food security, an agricultural official said. Secretary General of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Hamid Bensaad, announced the census, which will run until July 17. The ministry has mobilised 7,449 enumerators, controllers […]
MultiChoice Africa Holdings (MAH) and the Ugandan Ministry of ICT and National Guidance have announced a new cooperation agreement in the form of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). TheNewsZenith reports that they signed the MoU in Johannesburg, Sout Africa, on Friday. The agreement is geared towards establishing stronger partnerships, digitalisation and enhance the local content […]
From Our Correspondent, Abuja President Bola Tinubu, on Thursday, received President Bassirou Diomaye Faye of Senegal and called for an alignment of purpose and structure to effectively address challenges confronting the West Africa region. Speaking during a meeting with the Senegalese President at the State House, Abuja, President Tinubu said West Africa must work together to […]
Rwanda registered 9.5 million eligible voters in the presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for July 15, the country’s National Electoral Commission (NEC) said on Thursday. NEC Chairperson, Oda Gasinzigwa, revealed this figure during a press conference in Kigali. Gasinzigwa said about two million of these people are first-time voters. The NEC noted a significant increase […]
Dr Zouhair Lahna has worked in conflict zones across the globe – Syria, Libya, Yemen, Uganda and Ethiopia – but he has never seen anything like the Israeli war on Gaza. In those life-threatening situations, the Moroccan French pelvic surgeon and obstetrician said, there was a route to safety for civilians. But on Tuesday, Israeli forces seized […]
A bus carrying, farmworkers in central Florida, overturned on Tuesday, after colliding with a pickup truck on a rural road, killing eight people and injuring about 40 others, authorities said. The bus was transporting 53 farmworkers at about 6.40 a.m. when it collided with a truck in Marion County. Marion is 80 miles north of […]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said, on Tuesday, that 39 people have died from measles since January in South Sudan, with a case fatality rate of 1.7 per cent. The UN health agency in an epidemiological report released in Juba, South Sudan, stated that 2,271 suspected measles cases. There are also, 146 lab-confirmed cases. “The […]
The death toll from a building collapse in South Africa’s coastal city of George has increased to 27, with 25 construction workers still missing, authorities reported on Monday. The multi-story building under construction collapsed at 2:09 p.m. last Monday in the coastal city of George. George City is located about 400 kilometres east of Cape […]