Rotterdam, 28 May 2024 – The use of certified seeds that adhere to rigorous standards and protocols, leads to predictable yields and high-quality crops— making it easier for farmers to access markets with strict quality standards, mitigating risks associated with pests, diseases, and environmental factors, thereby safeguarding livelihoods and investments— says the delegates attending the […]
Paradigm Initiative (PIN), a leading Pan African digital rights and inclusion organisation, is calling on the Senegalese Government to immediately restore Internet and social media platforms in the country. This follows multiple breaches of Senegalese citizens’ digital rights and data privacy in the past few months, the latest being on June 1st, 2023. Deliberate internet […]
By Chemtai Kirui NAIROBI, KENYA – Today marked the first day of the Agroecology Conference in Nairobi, where experts gathered to discuss the scaling up of agroecology initiatives to achieve food systems transformation in Africa. The first Eastern Africa agroecology conference, taking place at the Safari Park Hotel, organized by Ecological Organic Agriculture and the […]
By Agencies The Ebola virus disease has claimed at least 54 lives in the first 55 days since its outbreak on September 20, the latest situation report by the World Health Organisation (WHO), has shown. Mubende District, which registered the index case, has since lost 29 people out of the 54 registered deaths. The report […]
Source BBC The Ethiopian military and Tigrayan rebels have agreed to allow immediate, unhindered aid deliveries to the Tigray region, where millions of people desperately need food and medicines. Top commanders from both sides signed a deal in Nairobi, Kenya, to implement the cessation of hostilities agreed on 2 November. A joint body is to […]
Mogadishu (AFP), Oct 31 – Somalia’s president has issued an urgent plea for international help for wounded victims of devastating car bombings at the weekend that claimed the lives of 100 people. Bulldozers were continuing to clear the blast site in the capital Mogadishu on Monday in the hunt for bodies feared trapped under the rubble. […]
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has declared an immediate three-week lockdown in two high risk districts as the country battles a rise in Ebola infections. All movement in and out of the Mubende and Kassanda districts will be halted, Museveni said in a televised address on Saturday – although cargo trucks will be allowed to enter and […]
The Queen’s coffin has left Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire and is making a six-hour journey to Edinburgh. The cortege began the 175-mile journey at 10:00 and will make its way through Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen, Angus and Tayside before reaching Edinburgh. The Queen will then lie at rest in The Palace of Holyroodhouse overnight. Officials have warned […]
Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s longest-serving monarch, has died at Balmoral aged 96, after reigning for 70 years. She died peacefully on Thursday afternoon at her Scottish estate, where she had spent much of the summer. The Queen came to the throne in 1952 and witnessed enormous social change. Her son King Charles III said […]
