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Botswana on Thursday announced a partial lifting of a ban on imports of meat and dairy products from neighbouring South Africa where an outbreak of foot and mouth disease has been reported.

Guinean minister of Planning and the president of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) group have, on the sidelines of the regional conference on the Waqf opened Wednesday in Conakry, signed a $16.25 million financing agreement aimed at boosting production rice through the Rice Value Chain Program.

The World Bank Board of Executive Directors has approved an International Development Association (IDA) credit of $25 million for the Smallholder Agriculture Transformation and Agribusiness Revitalization Project (STAR-P) of Liberia.

South Africa has deployed a team of veterinary services experts to Vhembe district in the country’s northern Limpopo Province to check the extent of the spread of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in the area, Agriculture Minister Senzeni Zokwana has said. 

eSwatini has suspended the issuance of permits to import livestock and meat products following an outbreak of the foot and mouth disease in neighbouring South Africa.

Botswana’s Ministry of Agriculture said Wednesday that it has banned the import of live cloven hoofed animals and their products from neighbouring South Africa after a report of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in Limpopo province.

Botswana on Tuesday imposed further restrictions on imports of horticultural products, a few months after imposing a similar ban on movement of selected crops into the country.

The drought season may be truly over in eSwatini where recent rains have filled up the kingdom’s four major dams.