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By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone– This Agri-Tech platform will enable Kenya agriculturalists to produce informed, data driven farming determinations and monitor yields utilizing satellite imagery and artificial intelligence. A national digital program for satellite and artificial intelligence (AI) crop monitoring and yield forecasting is being formulated in Kenya by the Directorate of Resource Surveys and Remote Sensing (DRSRS)...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone– “Enhancing Competitiveness of the Agri-food Industry and Mitigating the Impact of Global Crises to Improve Food Security in the EAC.” This endeavor is the domain of the EAB-GIZ Sequa GmBH project. EABC Manager of Policy and Standards, Frank Dafa, emphasized how global crises, enclosing COVID-19, Climate Change, and…Ukraine conflict, have comprising global supply chains, leading to increased...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone– According to data from the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), aggregate currency in circulation attained an all-time high of Sh315.97 billion in June 2023, comprising Sh30 billion in bank notes and Sh10.56 billion in coins. The Bank of Kenya details this development as a maintained need for notes and coins by banking customers. “The net increase of currency in circulation was attributed to higher...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone– Hamza Abdi Barre – Prime Minister of Somalia let out the budget was authorized by the cabinet during an extraordinary meeting carried in the national capital of Mogadishu. “The government’s budget this year has reached more than 1 billion dollars, which has come from the domestic revenue that has increased by more than 20%, and it focuses on national security and the development of social...