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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 an intimate tryst with South Sudan’s Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security. “The project will help increase productivity and incomes of almost 20,000 farming families in Central and Eastern Equatoria and Jonglei states, most of whom are formerly internally displaced persons who have now returned to their home...

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 the economic inequalities of apartheid. The agreement was a circumstance of Coca-Cola’s 2016 buyout of preceding counterpart SABMiller, now part of brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev, they announced. Consent for full entry to all our percentage and unit trust data tools, our award-winning articles, and support integrity...

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 in over 630 agricultural scientists, fostering their leadership expertise, strengthening their research skills, including integrating gender into their work, and catalyzing partnerships in Africa and between Africa and Europe. Since launching the inaugural call in 2019, AWARD has received over 2400 applications and, to...

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 on the symposium’s infrastructure panel, Quaynor stated: “African administrations cannot afford replacement costs, so it is best to build resilient and quality infrastructure from the onset, as well as implement adaptation improvements on existing infrastructure immediately.” He furthered: “Overall, the African...