Africa must urgently dismantle trade and logistical barriers preventing food from moving across its borders if the continent is to turn its agricultural potential into stronger regional markets, jobs and food security, the head of the African Union Development Agency-NEPAD (A UDA-NEPAD) said Friday. Nardos Bekele-Thomas, AUDA-NEPAD’s director-general, told the Africa Food Systems Forum summit […]
The CoVID-19 pandemic has affected economies through different angles, including, among others, global financial and capital markets, global commodity trade and markets, local supply and demand of goods and services as well as local labour markets and employment. A virtual country-learning event on the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on production, markets, trade, nutrition and […]
Malawi is among the four African countries to benefit from the US$4million NEPAD-Africa Solidarity Trust Fund project on promoting decent rural youth employment and Entrepreneurship in Agriculture and Agribusiness. The project will be managed by the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) from 2016 to 2018. Speaking in the capital Lilongwe on Wednesday during the […]
The African Union/Diaspora African Forum (AU/DAF), in collaboration with the Republic of South Africa, African Union Commission and NEPAD Planning and Coordination Agency on Friday, June 12, 2015, hosted an awards banquet in line with the 25th African Union Summit Theme for 2015: “Year of Women Empowerment and Development Towards Africa’s Agenda 2063.” The event, […]
Malawi’s economy can surge faster in a few years if connected or with internet connection to West-Coast Submarine cables, experts said.This was said during Malawi Internet Governance Forum (IGF) participatory workshop in administrative capital, Lilongwe.The country is already connected to two Sub-marine cables, through neighboring Mozambique and Tanzania, and this helps the country to always […]