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Zimbabwe and Botswana have agreed to electronically tag cattle for communities living along their common border as part of efforts to contain rampant theft of the animals in the area, Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe said on Tuesday.

FAO is helping Cote d’Ivoire “rethink” its cereal supply scheme, reports said on Friday.

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations on Wednesday said the desert locust upsurge that had ravaged the Horn of Africa for more than two years has ended.

Zimbabwe is on high alert for avian flu and has imposed stringent measures on imports of poultry products following outbreaks in three neighbouring countries, a senior official said on Tuesday.

Rwanda is set to host the first edition of the Africa Coffee and Tea Expo (ACT) this year on July 12 – 14, 2022 at the Kigali Convention Centre – The Village Exhibition, organisers of the event disclosed Monday.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has officially launched a US$14.8 million, 5-year agricultural export program. The program is entitled Feed the Future Rwanda “Kungahara Wagura Amasoko” (“prosper while expanding markets”) and is designed to inclusively and sustainably boost economic growth, in a statement obtained Saturday.

So far over 20,000 date palm trees have been planted in two regions of Ethiopia where they show great promise to thrive.