On 21 October 2022, the African Development Bank and the Mano River Union Secretariat hosted an event to launch the Project to Build Inclusive Business Ecosystems for Stabilization and Transformation in the Mano River Union (BI-BEST) in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) moderated the technical segment of the opening ceremony of the International Year of Millets (IYM2023) at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome on 6 December 2022.
Gwen Ansell, University of Pretoria Musicians worldwide have been placing their tracks with global streaming platforms such as Spotify for many years. South African musicians, however, have reported only sparse earnings from streaming music online.
US/— Unlike the two most recent presidential elections, the November mid-term election outcomes did little to swing farmer sentiment. The Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer came in at a reading of 102 in November, unchanged from October.
New York, US// – For the first time in history, funding for tuberculosis (TB) research and development (R&D) hit a billion dollars worldwide in 2021.
Accra, Ghana//– “The rabies situation in Banian is worrying and constitutes a real public health problem” said Dr. Alpha Oumar Barry, animal health consultant at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Guinea, referring to the two cases of confirmed dog rabies, 19 reported dog bites to humans and nine dog-eaten animals in the Banian […]
Vendors lack proper infrastructure to ensure protection against environmental health hazards. Shutterstock Maasago Mercy Sepadi, University of Johannesburg and Vusumuzi Nkosi, South African Medical Research Council Informal vendors are a common feature in urban areas. Also known as street vendors, they sell products or provide services on a public road, in a regulated market or […]
In June 2022, a fire outbreak at a hospital construction in Istanbul, Turkey, destroyed most of the newly installed medical and security devices, and injured three people.
From West Africa, to Southeast Asia and Latin America, women do far more to support fisheries than they are given credit for. Policy needs to recognise them. Gunjur Beach lies an hour’s drive from the Gambian capital of Banjul, along a stretch of wide open road and dirt tracks with few cars. In this West […]
Accra, Ghana//-Ghana’s Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta announced that government has put in place measures to minimise the impact of the country’s domestic debt exchange on investors.
