Rwanda Bans All Single-Use Plastics

East African

Rwanda becomes the first regional country to issue a complete ban on all single-use plastics and retailers have three months to clear their stocks and find alternatives, while… Read more »

Striking Doctors Snub Wage Talks As Govt Offers 100% Allowance Increase

New Zimbabwe

ZIMBABWE'S striking doctors Friday snubbed wage negotiations in which government pledged an immediate 100 percent increase to their allowances to health workers. Read more »

Climate Change, the Biggest Threat to Realising SDGs - President Akufo-Addo [press release]

Ghana Govt.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said climate change remains the biggest threat to the realisation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), especially in… Read more »

Local Development - U.S. Embassy Offers 42 Million Fcfa to 7 Self-Help Groups

Cameroon Tribune

The money will help to improve access to clean water, provide classrooms and increase economic opportunities for communities in four regions. Read more »

Weathermen Warn of Heavy, Destructive Rains

East African

Poor management of surface run-off in East Africa has come to the fore, with the onset of rains and a forecast of above normal rainfall in Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania in the later… Read more »

Gender Ministry Begins Disbursement of U.S.$300k to 'Extremely Poor' Citizens

Observer

... Beneficiaries are in Maryland, Grand Kru counties Read more »

Agro-Tech Offers Answers for African Farmers At Iowa Meet

IPS

Experts vaunted new strains of seeds, drone aircraft and other technological breakthroughs as solutions-in-the-making for farmers in Africa, where hunger, drought and food price… Read more »

New Project Launched to Help Chadian Farmers Adapt to Climate Change and Boost the Agriculture Sector [press release]

IFAD

A new €81.9 million project will help more than 1 million vulnerable small-scale farmers in Chad improve their incomes and food security and boost an underperforming… Read more »

Rep. Flomo Eases Education Burden in District 13

New Republic

Montserrado County District number 13 Representative, Edward Papay Flomo, Jr. has brought academic and financial relief to hundreds of parents and a thousand plus of students in… Read more »

Gender Ministry Dishes Out Cash

New Dawn

The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection or (MGCSP) announces here it has begun disbursement of social cash to extremely poor citizens in Maryland and Grand Kru… Read more »

Helping Ethiopian Farmers Adapt to Drought and Flooding

Addis Standard

Nestled deep in Ethiopia's highlands, in the Amhara region, Habru Woreda some 500 km from the country's capital Addis Abeba, the small village of Berebeyu is grappling with the… Read more »

Minister - 'Financial Support Inadequate for Sudan's Poor'

Radio Dabanga

Sudan's Minister of Labour and Social Development has described the feasibility of direct financial support to poor and vulnerable people in the country during the transitional… Read more »

For South Africa, Climate Adaptation and Economic Growth Can Go Hand in Hand [opinion]

Democracy Works

In September, I visited South Africa with my fellow Elders Graça Machel and Gro Harlem Brundtland, where I had the honor of meeting President Cyril Ramaphosa in Cape Town.… Read more »

Kenyan Farmers Snap Crops With Phones to Improve Insurance Payouts

Thomson Reuters Foundation

A new project is training farmers to use smartphones to chart the health of their crops, so that they are more likely to receive compensation when droughts or floods hit Read more »

Deal Signed to Develop Smart Green Villages in Rwanda

New Times

Rwanda Green Fund on Thursday signed an agreement with the Global Alliance for Smart Cities and Smart Villages in Africa (GASCA) to develop Rwandan villages into "smart green… Read more »