Published by PM News Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has written an open letter to U.S. President Joe Biden to educate him about the crisis in the Tigray region, which has spread to Amhara. Abiy’s letter came into social media space hours after Biden on Friday signed an executive order, authorising a new sanctions regime […]
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How Kenya can make agriculture attractive to millions of youth
Published by Business Daily A young man in Nyandarua County growing cabbages is struggling to expand his farming due to limited marketing information, lack of credit and is contemplating abandoning the venture. Mr Waithanji Kigotho, 32, has leased a five-acre piece of land where he grows cabbages which he sells at the farm gate price […]
Wake up and smell the coffee … made in the United States
Published by Reuters By Marcelo Teixeira NEW YORK (Reuters) – Farmer David Armstrong recently finished planting what is likely the most challenging crop his family has ever cultivated since his ancestors started farming in 1865 – 20,000 coffee trees. Except Armstrong is not in the tropics of Central America – he is in Ventura, California, […]
Germany seeks backing for Tedros at WHO helm as Africa quiet – diplomats
Published by Reuters By Stephanie Nebehay, Andreas Rinke and Giulia Paravicini GENEVA/BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany is seeking support from other European Union members to ensure a second term for Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at the helm of the World Health Organisation, but African states have yet to show their cards, government sources and diplomats said on […]
NASA’s Lucy mission to probe Jupiter’s mysterious Trojan asteroids
Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – NASA is poised to send its first spacecraft to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids to glean new insights into the solar system’s formation 4.5 billion years ago, the space agency said Tuesday. The probe, called Lucy after an ancient fossil that provided insights into the evolution of human species, will […]
‘Fragile’ Exhibition To Open At Science Museum
Published by Daily Guide Network An exhibition of works by German artist Wolfgang Tillmans will on Friday, October 8, open at the Museum of Science and Technology in Accra. Indeed, his work occupies a prominent position in the contemporary art world. Ever since his first exhibitions and publications in the early 1990s, Tillmans’s artistic approaches […]