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Africa's Drylands Are Getting More Support. How to Make the Most of This

[The Conversation Africa] The United Nations (UN) recently launched the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems worldwide. It is a response to evidence that our current abuse of nature has accelerated global warming and degraded natural resources to a degree that threatens the wellbeing of people.

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Angola: Stopping COVID-19 From Reaching Family Farmers in Angola

Angola's Institute of Agrarian Development (IDA) is a key partner in the information campaign, including IDA agricultural extension workers who are reaching farmers in their fields and

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Nigeria: Govt - 2020 Budget Review Not Austerity Measures

Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Ikanade Agba, has assured Nigerians that the revision of the 2020 budget by the federal government was not intended to impose austerity measures on

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Rwanda Space Agency to Be Operational in July

Rwanda has laid ground for space technologies through the establishment of ESRI Rwanda, which provides mapping services and GIS solutions to government agencies, and the Centre of the Geographic Information System at the University of

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Julius Nyerere , in full Julius Kambarage Nyerere, also called Mwalimu (Swahili: “Teacher”) (born March 1922, Butiama, Tanganyika—died October 14, 1999, London, England), first prime minister of independent Tanganyika (1961), who became the first president of the new state of

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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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Angola, more than three times the size of California, extends for more than 1,000 mi (1,609 km) along the South Atlantic in southwest Africa. The Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Congo are to the north and east, Zambia is to the east, and Namibia is to the south. A plateau

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Africa: Agroecology Strengthens Farmers' Resilience but Highly Underfunded in Africa

Nairobi — With just a quarter of an acre of land in Kesses near Kenya's Eldoret town in the Rift Valley region, Samson Tanui is practising agroecology and his permaculture unit has become the centre of attraction for farmers from near and afar amid food shortages during the current COVID-19

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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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Kenya Budgets to Fight Locusts, Floods and Virus

Kenya has allocated Ksh48 billion ($480 million) to agriculture, and an additional Ksh4.3 billion ($43 million) from the World Bank has been set aside to combat the spread of the desert

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Uganda's Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva Dies

Uganda's permanent representative to the United Nations, World Trade Organization and other International Organizations in Geneva, Christopher Onyanga Aparr has

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Rwanda: Govt Unveils U.S.$11 Billion Climate Action Plan

Rwanda has become the first African country to submit a new national climate plan, whose implementation requires $11 billion (10.2 trillion), as an essential tool to implement the Paris

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South Carolina State University (1896--- )

South Carolina State University (SCSU) was founded in 1896 by an act of the South Carolina General Assembly and remains the state’s sole public college for African American youth. It was established in Orangeburg, South Carolina as a land grant institution that focused mainly on

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

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Earth Today | Clarendon farmers apply local technology to boost climate-smart agriculture

It allows farmers to access high-resolution weather forecasts, agronomic tips, and information on climate-smart agricultural practices, and compares specific crop prices at three of the major markets in Jamaica – Coronation, May Pen, and

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British ask for Ashanti Golden Stool

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

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Bartlett seeks cooperation in rebuilding tourism

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Rwanda: EU Offers Rwf55 Billion Grant to Rwanda for COVID-19 Relief

The Government and the European Union (EU) Monday signed a Rwf55 billion grant agreement to support social protection in response to the Covid-19 crisis, the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning said in

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Farming Lures Back Young People in Africa – Free Press of Jacksonville

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Angola: Official Calls for Stricter State Fund Management

Lubango — The vice-governor for political, economic and social Affairs of the southern Huila province, Maria Chipalavela, Wednesday, here urged entrepreneurs benefiting from State financial support for stricter use of the amounts

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Premature baby's Covid-19 death to be investigated

The cause of death of the baby born prematurely, and said to have died of Covid-19 after a two-day struggle for survival, will be investigated, the Western Cape government said on

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Moroccan farmers chartered to Italy for work

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Second Morrill Act of 1890

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Tanzania: 3 More Eyeing Top Isles Post

Zanzibar — THREE more CCM cadres, including retired teacher and currently full-time peasant Haji Rashid Pandu, joined the Zanzibar presidential race yesterday, bringing to 13, the total number of candidates seeking to succeed outgoing President Dr Ali Mohammed

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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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Rwanda: Landslide Aftermath - Smallholder Farmers Appeal for Urgent Support

Nyirakayeye, a smallholder farmer and mother of four from Jenda Sector in Nyabihu says that the losses she incurred are valued at Rwf600,000 which she expected to cash in on the harvest if the season had gone as

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