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Zambia declares national disaster after drought devastates agriculture

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Drought crisis brought on by El Nino and climate change will affect more than a million households, President Hakainde Hichilema says. Zambia has declared the drought the country is currently…

African leaders show the “gap” during the campaign launch in the United Nations HQ. (Centre left) H.E. Macky Sall, President of the Republic of Senegal; (Second from left) H.E. Jakaya Kikwete, Former President of the United Republic of Tanzania; (Centre) H.E. Josefa Sacko, African Union Commissioner, ARBE; (Centre left) Harsen Nyambe, Director: Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment at the African Union; (Second from left) Nardos Bekele-Thomas, CEO of AUDA-NEPAD; (Right) Hon. Carl Schlettwein, Minister of Agriculture, Water, & Forestry, Namibia; (Left) Alex Simalabwi, Executive Director: High-Level Panel Secretariat

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African leaders have pledged to mobilise US$30bn per year by 2030 to achieve water security and sustainable sanitation on the continent through institutional private-public partnerships, sector reform, and higher national…

Female farmer working on her rice field in Mozambique African Development Fund $20 million Mozambique

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The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund, the African Development Bank Group’s concessional lending window, has approved a grant of $19.98 million to finance the implementation of Mozambique’s Economic…

Commonwealth, IICA sign partnership to boost food security in the Caribbean

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The Commonwealth Secretariat and Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate on key agricultural and fisheries challenges confronting the Caribbean. The…

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Frederick Musiiwa Makamure Shava provides a vision for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development from the vantage point of his work as President of the United Nations Economic and…

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Olusegun Obasanjo, former President of Nigeria and member of the Africa Progress Panel, calls for ambitious, efficient and properly financed multilateral cooperation to meet Africa’s energy challenges. Can the world…

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Dr Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank, discusses the potential of agro-industrial development and asserts that the future of Africa depends on agriculture. Agriculture, which contributes 16.2 per…

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Zambia declares national disaster after drought devastates agriculture

African Leaders commit to Mind the Gap – Invest in Water as the race to achieve SDG 6 in Africa accelerates

Mozambique: African Development Fund approves $20 million to improve business environment and drive investments to climate-smart agriculture

Commonwealth, IICA sign partnership to boost food security in the Caribbean

2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: a New Path for Development

Power, People, Planet: Seizing Africa’s Energy and Climate Opportunities

Agro-Allied Industrialisation in Africa

Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting Report 2024

The Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the EU join forces to implement outcomes of the 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States

Commonwealth Secretary-General to make first official visit to Pakistan

Namibia Gets Ready to Become the World’s Newest Oil Hotspot