As President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete of Tanzania was about to leave Dar es Salaam on November 15 to attend the World Food Summit in Rome, he sat down at State House to discuss a range of issues with AllAfrica. One of them was food security.
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The World Bank said yesterday that the amount needed to fix infrastructure in Africa is twice what was previously estimated. It put the new figure at $93 billion half of which, it noted, should go into boosting power supply.
Nineteen-year-old Beauty Phillips clutches her emaciated baby tightly to her chest. At seven months, Inga suffers from malnutrition.
The Government of Rwanda yesterday entered a groundbreaking agreement with US-based Eco-Fuel Global and UK's Eco Positive Ltd-which will see the two companies sink $250m in a project to produce bio-diesel.
THE Land Claims Commission cannot afford to honour at least R10bn in outstanding commitments to land owners and claimants, Business Day has established.
The humanitarian aid community will not only be keeping tabs on the conversations about "who will cut how much [greenhouse gas emissions]" at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15), but will also have their antennae tuned to talks on issues already affecting their constituencies.
SOUTH African investors are keen to establish businesses in Zimbabwe and are anxious to see Zimbabwe's economy stabilising, a Rustenburg municipal officer has said.
THE first phase of the national data transmission backbone infrastructure has been completed.
The importance of the agriculture sector to the Ghanaian economy was manifest once again in the 2010 national budget statement presented by the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Dr. Kwabena Duffuor, to Parliament on November 18, 2009. The sector grew by 6.2 percent, against a target of 5.7 percent, driven largely on account of good rainfall patterns and by extension of the land under ...
Heavy rains are falling across Zimbabwe and the Meteorological Services Department has warned people living in low-lying areas of flash floods while the police have warned drivers and pedestrians not to cross flooded rivers or bridges.
A Water Indaba in the Western Cape is to help develop an action plan to fast track water service delivery in the province, among others.
IN ORDER to manage a looming water crisis, SA must use water more efficiently and rely on additional supply sources, according to a report released yesterday by the World Bank and McKinsey & Co .
INFRASTRUCTURE development topped the Federal Government's agenda in Capital Expenditure of the N4.07 trillion budgetary proposal for 2010 laid separately before the Senate and the House of Representatives yesterday.
African farmers are seeding prosperity. Just ask the woman they call "Marie Nerica" who is sowing a new breed of Nerica rice in Sierra Leone. She now produces enough to sell the surplus in local markets and to the government. Her success sprang from the government's renewed commitment to agriculture, sealed when it recently signed a compact known as the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development ...
