APA
The price of OPEC basket of 13 crudes stood at $92.76 a barrel on Thursday, September 29, 2022, compared with $90.27 the previous day, according to OPEC Secretariat calculations.
Rwanda has received a a total amount of US$300 million to help the government increase irrigation, commercialization, and access to finance and insurance for farmers and other value chain actors in Rwanda’s agricultural sector, an official source confirmed Friday to APA in Kigali.
Africa needs the right policy environment to harness and optimize benefits accruing from agricultural biotechnology, innovation and emerging technologies for rural economic transformation, experts said Friday.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame is currently in Singapore on a working visit at the invitation of his Singaporian counterpart Halimah Yacob, an official statement obtained Friday by APA in Kigali said.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has denied that there was anything criminal about stashing US$4 million in chair cushions at his Phala Phala farm in Limpopo province two years ago.
Zimbabwean journalist Faith Zaba is one of the three recipients of the 2022 Wan-Ifra Editorial Leadership Award in recognition of her role in steering the editorial thrust of her publication, organisers announced late Thursday.
A new study released on Thursday indicates that as many as 7,300 civilians with no roles in the war were killed in the Amhara and Afar regions when the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) forces controlled most of the region in the northern Ethiopia.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has said that state-owned power utility Eskom has been a “bed of corruption” for years and the current load-shedding the country is experiencing is a product of this malpractice.
Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Mr. Lai Mohammed, has said that the establishment of the Nigeria-Saudi Arabia Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture will deepen the relations between the two countries beyond diplomatic ties to commerce and industry.
During the night of Thursday to Friday, sounds of gunfire were heard throughout the Burkinabe capital, Ouagadougou including near the presidential palace.