Consult stakeholders over Agriculture Reforms-Zambia urged
Zambia’s bid to reform the agriculture sector and make it the country and continent’s food lifeblood has been commended by the country’s accounting body-ZACA...
USAID and Prosper Africa Announce Bechtel Zambia Partnership
USAID announced, through the Prosper Africa Initiative, that it will partner with agribusiness/energy firm AfricaGlobal Schaffer, infrastructure firm Bechtel’s social impact company bechtel.org, and...
New AfDB, WWF study calls for urgent attention and increased investment in Africa’s biodiversity
The assessment, launched on the sidelines of the UN Biodiversity summit (COP15) in Montreal, Canada, is based on the 6th National Reports on biodiversity...
Sudan: African Development Bank Group commits nearly $74 million to boost wheat production
Agriculture is the backbone of the Sudanese economy, accounting for 60% of total national exports and generating a third of its gross domestic product
The...
Vietnam holds conference to discuss cashew trade with Africa
The Vietnam’s Foreign Affairs Ministry this Tuesday hosted a hybrid conference on cashew trade with officials from Africa governments and measures to ensure exports...
African Development Fund extends additional grant funding of $12 million to boost drive for...
The new tranche, to be sourced from the 2022 Performance-based Allocation, will fill a funding gap in the project’s total cost of nearly $37...
France eye agriculture, other sectors
Having identified Zambia’s economic growth potential in the agricultural sector, among other sectors, France has sought to collaborate and invest in the country’s sustainable...
‘French-Zambia confer on Timber Investment’
Zambia has gravely lost returns from the timber sector despite its abundance because the product is exported as raw material coupled with smuggling and...
African Development Bank Group commits $180 million to bolster post-Covid-19 economic recovery
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank has approved a loan of $179.66 million to support government reforms to restore post-pandemic fiscal...
African Development Fund mobilizes $8.9 billion for Africa’s low-income countries
After a year of intense negotiations and a difficult global economic outlook, development partners of the African Development Fund (ADF) have agreed to commit...