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Congo, in partnership with the Batekes Brazzaville Forest Planting Society (SPF2B) plans to reforest more than 10,000 hectares across the country over the next ten years in an attempt to curb deforestation and the degradation of natural forests, APA learns.
The European Union has agreed to finance 2.5 billion CFA francs a five-year project by the Congolese government to conserve wildlife, ecosystems and improve the living conditions and food security of living communities in the northern part of the country.
Heavy rains triggered by strong wind has made great material damage in several parts across Rwanda in last three days, local media reported Wednesday.
The visiting Moroccan Minister Delegate for African Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mohcine Jazouli, on Tuesday stressed that the bilateral cooperation between his county and Rwanda has a strong potential for growth, particularly in solar energy.
Six poachers found with 41 ivory tips of nearly 90 kg were rounded up in the department of the Basin-West, in the north of Congo.
The Cameroonian minister of Territorial Administration, Paul Atanga Nji say his ministry is poised to institute sanctions and other criminal procedures will against officials found guilty of illegal logging and forest-poaching.
Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta on Tuesday announced a raft of measures aimed at boosting Kenya’s coffee sub-sector.
The Zimbabwe government has allayed fears that the country will be hit by another deadly cyclone, a few weeks after Cyclone Idai claimed hundreds of lives and displaced thousands of others.
During his visit to Egypt, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Mark Green launched a $37 million project to enhance productivity across Egypt’s entire agricultural value chain, beginning on the farm and extending to when products reach consumers.
Some 93% of the South Africans have access to clean water supply services and 76% of the population have access to basic sanitation services, a senior official has said.