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By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a pact with South Sudan to lend Juba a $14 million subsidy to improve agribusiness. From an announcement discerned by The East African, The Agricultural Markets, Value Addition, and Trade Development five-year project which seeks to augment agrarian productivity will be carried out by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone-  Coca-Cola is scheming to peddle approximately 30% of its South African bottling member to local non-White investors in an agreement worth about R10 billion ($669 million), in connection with a consensus with local regulators, according to people aware of the course. This motion , will enable the US gulps fiend, to kowtow with South Africa’s appointment operations that pursues to avenge...

By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Accra, Ghana- Investing in the next generation of African scientists, African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) has announced that the call for third cohort of the One Planet Fellowship is now open. Inspired by the AWARD Fellowship Model, One Planet Fellowship’s interventions target high potential scientists in a career acceleration process. The $19.2 million One Planet Fellowship seeks to invest...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone-  Administrations and the private sector must accept a “whole systems approach” to urgently deliver the climate-resilient and clean infrastructure that Africa needs, African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Vice President for Private Sector, Infrastructure and Industrialization, Solomon Quaynor, has announced. He noted this at the 2021 Climate Adaptation Summit hosted by the Netherlands. Communicating...