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Tuesday, 2 February, 2021 - 10:45 Arab League and African Union officials meet in Cairo on Monday. (Arab League) Cairo - Asharq Al-Awsat Secretary-General of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit and Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) Moussa Faki co-chaired on Monday the ninth meeting of the Arab-African Cooperation in the League’s headquarters in Cairo. They followed up the implementation of the decisions issued by t...

Flashback: Farmers in Boinsen District, Bong County, conducting the harvest of 252 acres of upland rice. President George M. Weah has reiterated his administration’s commitment to a vibrant agricultural sector to ensure food security and sustainable development. However, from the national budget, said commitment hardly convincing. Delivering his 4 th annual address to the 54 th Legislature on Monday, January 25, 2021, at the Capitol, the President said because agriculture is an important c...

My COVID-19 experience by Bisi Olatilo On Bisi Olatilo This is my second encounter with you fellow Nigerians from all parts of the world on my gallant fight with the dreaded coronavirus which all the doctors l have met on this issue, have confirmed unequivocally without mincing words that it’s the deadliest virus that weakens every part of the body and turns a full blown adult into a one year old toddler who is assisted to bath urinate excrete, washing of the teeth and other essential hygien...

Verifying Kenyan governors’ claims of progress Published on 01 December 2020 Claim Verdict Source Wycliffe Oparanya, chair of Kenya’s council of governors (July 2020) Of the seven claims we checked, Oparanya was only correct that women are represented as required by law on county elected bodies. He was nearly on the money about the percentages allocated to health. His figures about allocations to agriculture didn’t add up, however. His claims about water and sanitation cannot be proven, w...

• FG earmarks 1.73% against 10% Maputo declaration • Failure to boost sector spells doom, ex-PAN boss warns Allocations by federal and state governments to agriculture in 2021 have fallen below five per cent, less than half way into the bottom line agreed to at the Maputo and Malabo declarations, signed by the Federal Government in 2003 and 2014. The extant declarations recommend a minimum of 10 per cent of total public budgets to the sector to enhance food production and wealth creation, a...

It might come faster if the government did something about corruption

Istanbul Airport to have 286 destinations, with 207 daily-plus Istanbul Airport’s international network in the first week of summer to total 241 destinations, with 53 in Africa. These include a thrice-weekly Istanbul – Port Harcourt – Malabo – Istanbul service using B737-900ERs. Istanbul Airport will have 286 passenger destinations in the first week of summer – the highest in recent years – with 4,155 weekly flights each way. It’ll be up from 115 destinations in the same week in d...

An employee at a German zoo was taken to hospital after being bitten in the face by a camel, police said.

GECF: Restored unity among Gulf States to bring stability to energy markets 18 Jan 2021 The 41st Summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, reaffirming the importance of the international dialogue. Itself embodying the ethos of diplomacy and multilateralism, the GECF hails the Al-Ula Declarations goals to build intergovernmental bridges towards a sustainable future regionally and globally. These shared values of cooperation are the guiding principles of the GE...

THE STANDARD By Dr Samantha Opere | January 17th 2021 at 06:10:00 GMT +0300 Dr Samantha Opere At the African Union Summit in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, in June 2014, African governments adopted the Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural Growth and Transformation for Shared Prosperity and Improved Livelihoods.  This Declaration set forth a series of concrete development goals to be reached by 2025, including achieving a 6 per cent annual agricultural growth rate and a 10 per cent agri...