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Ministry of Information, Eritrea
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Contribution of Photo Exhibition at National Festival

Visitors to the exhibition highlighted the significance of the displays in preserving and transmitting the history, culture, and identity of the Eritrean people

The photo, painting, and sculpture exhibition displayed at the National Festival 2025 by the Ministry of Defense and other artists has been reported to make a significant contribution to preserving and transferring Eritrea’s cultural and historical heritage. Noting that “one photo has the power of a thousand words,” Maj. Fesehaye…

Ministry of Information, Eritrea
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Eritrea: Commendable Greening Campaign in Central Region

Fifty percent of the program was implemented by members of the Defense Forces, 25% by national associations and companies, 20% by the students’ summer work program, and 5% through community involvement

Mr. Beraki Kidane, a forestation expert at the Forestry and Wildlife Authority, indicated that an effective greening campaign is being carried out with strong community participation. Regarding the greening program undertaken by ministries, national associations, and members of the Defense Forces, Mr. Beraki said that more than 1.1 million tree…

United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS)
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United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) peacekeepers from South Koren help transform food production and build resilience in Jonglei and Greater Pibor

The priority is to help communities to diversify the ways in which they build self-reliance, promote development, and economic growth

More than 1.3 million people in Jonglei and Greater Pibor are suffering from acute food insecurity because of persistent intercommunal fighting, climate shocks, and a deteriorating economic situation. To help combat this crisis, South Korean peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan are helping local communities develop…

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Building skills to track progress on strengthening resilience across Africa

Regional workshop opens in Addis Ababa focusing on final Malabo review

A regional workshop on measuring household resilience to climate and socioeconomic shocks has opened in Addis Ababa, bringing together statisticians and technical experts from 27 African countries. The three-day event, jointly organized by the African Union Commission (AUC) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), aims…

International Trade Centre
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From 8 to 30 bales: How climate-smart cotton farming is transforming lives in rural Zambia

This project, grounded in climate-smart solutions like Biochar and Bokashi, has enabled farming families to not only survive but thrive

Zambian farmers have doubled their yields and their incomes, using climate-smart techniques learned through a partnership among the European Union, African, Caribbean and Pacific states (ACP), and the International Trade Centre (ITC). Before 2021, many smallholder cotton farmers in Magoye and Ngwezi in Zambia faced declining yields, poor soils, and limited…

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO): Regional Office for Africa
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Young African agripreneurs share Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions for agrifood systems transformation

It is part of FAO’s ongoing Youth on the Frontier of Agrifood Systems series, which highlights the role of young people in shaping the future of agriculture in Africa

A live X Spaces event exploring how young African innovators are using artificial intelligence (AI) to address food security challenges highlighted that digital inclusion is essential for rural communities. The one-hour live event on X, hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Regional Office for…

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO): Regional Office for Africa
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) strengthens animal production and health coordination in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region

These efforts will help CUFAPH maintain impactful animal health and production interventions, contributing to sustainable and resilient livelihoods in Southern Africa

The second annual meeting of the Coordinating Unit for Animal Production and Health (CUFAPH) under the FAO Subregional Office for Southern Africa (SFS) was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, bringing together 30 national animal health experts from across Southern Africa, regional organizations, and FAO technical staff. CUFAPH is a multidisciplinary…

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    • Durfo village community leader (far left) discusses project benefits with Zoba Maekel community engineer (centre) and Hailemikael Berhe (right), DRSLP project accountant during a field visit to a masonry dam in Durfo village, Zoba Maekel, central Eritrea
    • An aerial view of the Guritata dam, in Zoba Maekal, central Eritrea
    • Image of Meskel’s farmland, in Zoba Anseba, northern Eritrea
    • Ongoing community-led construction of a masonry dam, in Zoba Maekal, central Eritrea
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Transforming dust: How Eritrea’s dams are revitalizing the land

A network of masonry dams is slowly transforming Eritrea’s rural landscape, bringing clean water, food security, and new hope to remote farming communities once battered by drought

In villages across Eritrea’s dry interior, change is quietly flowing. Where seasonal rivers once surged and vanished without trace, hand-built dams now hold back precious water. Irrigation canals feed crops even in dry months. Eritrea, one of the Horn of Africa’s most drought-prone countries, has adopted a straightforward approach to…

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    • President of the African Development Bank Group, Dr Akinwumi Adesina; Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde; and Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari, at the groundbreaking ceremony of the Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone (SAPZ) in Ijaiye, Oyo State, Nigeria, 02 August 2025
    • President of the African Development Bank Group, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, delivering his speech at the groundbreaking ceremony of the Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone (SAPZ) in Ijaiye, Oyo State, Nigeria, 02 August 2025
    • President of the African Development Bank Group, Dr Akinwumi Adesina; Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde (3rd from left); Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari (2nd from left); Mrs Grace Adesina; Senior Special Adviser to Dr Adesina on Industrialisation, Prof Oyebanji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka (2nd from right); and AfDB Director General for Nigeria, Dr. Abdul Kamara, at the groundbreaking ceremony of the Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone (SAPZ) in Ijaiye, Oyo State, Nigeria, 02 August 2025
    • President of the African Development Bank Group, Dr Akinwumi Adesina and the Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, ahead of the groundbreaking ceremony of the Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone (SAPZ) in Ijaiye, Oyo State, Nigeria, 02 August 2025
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Nigeria Expands Agro-Industrial Footprint with New Processing Hub in Oyo State

The Oyo site is the third to be developed under the national SAPZ program, and the first in southwest Nigeria

Oyo SAPZ will host up to 40 agro-processing industries, create over 100,000 direct and indirect jobs, and benefit half a million farmers. A great honour to do this on my last official visit to Nigeria as President of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) – Adesina Nigeria has launched a…

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    • In Nigeria, Oyo State’s fertile ground is set to meet mechanized ambition, as the state begins construction of its Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone under Phase I of the SAPZ Programme
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Nigeria: African Development Bank to join groundbreaking ceremony of Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone in Oyo State

Third groundbreaking in 2025 under Phase I of the Nigeria SAPZ Programme; first in the country’s southwest

The Federal Government of Nigeria and the Oyo State Government will be joined by the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) for the groundbreaking ceremony of the Oyo State Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone (SAPZ). Headlining the ceremony, to be held 2 August 2025 in Ijaiye, Akinyele Local Government Area, will be Nigeria’s…