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- Africa: Innovations in Agriculture Can Drive Climate- Change Mitigationsam 05/06/2023 um 19:21
[allAfrica] Nairobi -- The agricultural sector is a signiï¬cant contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, responsible for an estimated 19-29 percent, according to the World Bank. This ï¬gure climbs to 40 percent emissions produced throughout the entire agricultural value chain - encompassing transportation, storage, and processing - are considered.
- Nigeria: Food Prices, Transport Fares Increase Across Nigeria As Fuel Subsidy Removal Bites Harderam 05/06/2023 um 12:38
[Premium Times] Fuel queues returned to Nigerian cities last week Monday as motorists scrambled to get petroleum products hours after President Bola Tinubu announced that the government would put an end to the fuel subsidy regime.
- Angola: Angola's Current Account Balance in Surplus, Tends to Decreaseam 05/06/2023 um 11:57
[ANGOP] Luanda -- Angola's Current Account balance surplused by 1.8 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the first quarter of this year, despite the downward trend and compared to the same period last year.
- Kenya: Finance Bill 2023 is People-Centric, President Ruto Saysam 05/06/2023 um 10:33
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- President William Ruto has urged MPs to support the Finance Bill 2023.
- Africa: Breaking the Plastic Cycle in Agriculturevon [email protected] (FAO) am 05/06/2023 um 10:26
[FAO] Sustainable solutions and alternatives to halt the proliferation of plastic
- Kenya: If You Oppose the Finance Bill Don't Ask for Development - DP Gachagua to MPsam 05/06/2023 um 10:02
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has opened up a new controversy after stating that lawmakers opposing the Finance Bill, 2023, should forget about development projects in their constituencies.
- Liberia: BMMC Union Leader Orders Flogging Employeesvon [email protected] (New Dawn) am 05/06/2023 um 09:48
[New Dawn] ..calls for complete shutdown of operations
- Liberia: GC Chair Raps On Revenue Sharing Law Implementationvon [email protected] (New Dawn) am 05/06/2023 um 09:48
[New Dawn] The Chairman of the Governance Commission, Atty. Garrison Yealue, has called on local government leaders and civil society to push harder with joint efforts to honestly implement local government-related laws, especially the recently passed law for sustaining fiscal decentralization and revenue sharing mechanisms.
- Liberia: House to Probe Arcelormittal Liberiavon [email protected] (New Dawn) am 05/06/2023 um 09:48
[New Dawn] -For allege violation of MDA
- Liberia: Government Must Speak On the Diamond Sagavon [email protected] (New Dawn) am 05/06/2023 um 09:46
[New Dawn] The Government of Liberia is yet to come clear on a 53.3 carats diamond reportedly valued at US$5 million that led a group of aggrieved citizens from Gbarpolu County protesting before President George Weah's Jamaica Resort in Paynesville last Thursday, June 1, 2023.
- Nigeria: 18 Passengers Perish in Kano Auto Crasham 05/06/2023 um 09:33
[Vanguard] No fewer than 18 persons have perished, as they were burnt beyond recognition in an auto crash in Zakirai town, Gabasawa Local Government Area on Kano-Ringim Road in Kano State.
- Nigeria: Tinubu Has Immediate Solution for Effect of Subsidy Removal - Oshiomholeam 05/06/2023 um 09:17
[Vanguard] A former governor of Edo state, Adams Oshiomhole said President Bola Tinubu has an immediate solution to cushion the consequential effect of the subsidy removal.
- Nigeria: Fuel Subsidy Removal - TUC Meets Tinubu's Delegation, Makes Demands to Avert Strikeam 05/06/2023 um 09:16
[Premium Times] "The TUC that attended today's meeting presented a list of demands and those demands we have studied and we are going to present to Mr President, for his consideration."
- Nigeria: Don't Politicise Fuel Subsidy Removal, Sanwo-Olu Tells NLCam 05/06/2023 um 07:39
[Leadership] Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has urged the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to shelve its planned strike in protest against the fuel subsidy removal, saying the issue should not be made political.
- Nigeria: Fuel Subsidy - Federal Govt, Labour Meet, Form Tripartite Committeeam 05/06/2023 um 07:39
[Leadership] The federal government has said talks with organised Labour regarding the fuel subsidy removal will be concluded tomorrow.
- Nigeria: NNPC to Discontinue Crude Swap, Targets Cash Payments for Petrol Importsam 05/06/2023 um 07:39
[Leadership] With the removal of subsidy on petrol in the country, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) is set to discontinue crude oil swap in favour of cash payments for petrol imports.
- Tanzania: Dar Educates Industrial Workers, Employers Over Ichf Benefitsam 05/06/2023 um 07:35
[Daily News] WITH only 11 per cent of residents of Dar es Salaam being covered with the improved Community Health Fund (iCHF) Scheme Regional Coordinator, Mr Yasini Kisawike, said they have decided to embark on awareness programme to increase the number.
- Nigeria: Central Bank and the Urgency of Reformam 05/06/2023 um 06:52
[Premium Times] That Mr Emefiele remains head of the Central Bank simply underscores the difficulty that we have had as a country with holding public officers accountable for their work.
- Kenya: Ruto, Azimio Push for House Open Ballot in Finance Bill 2023 Votingam 05/06/2023 um 06:47
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Members of Parliament might be put to a test after President William Ruto agreed with the open vote on the Finance Bill 2023 proposed by the Azimio La Umoja Coalition.
- Kenya: Gachagua Bullish Finance Bill 2023 Will Pass Despite Azimio's 'Theatrics'am 05/06/2023 um 05:54
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has advised Azimio Members of Parliament not to expend their tactics in futile attempts to defeat the Finance Bill 2023 in the National Assembly.
- South Africa: Power Utility Executive Implicated in Power Station Sabotage - South African News Briefs - June 5, 2023am 05/06/2023 um 05:39
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- South Africa: Transport Minister Flipped an 'Ace' Card in the Karpowership Poker Saga, but Does He Have a Winning Hand?am 05/06/2023 um 05:34
[Daily Maverick] Unperturbed by the concerns of the national harbour authority planners, former Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula signed a special directive ordering Transnet chief executive Pepi Silinga to make way for the Turks and their 49% local power partners for the next two decades.
- Rwanda: Digitisation - 400 More Services to Be Accessed Via Iremboam 05/06/2023 um 05:23
[New Times] Rwanda plans to have over 400 more services digitised on Irembo - an online portal that serves as a gateway to different government services - by June 2024, with a view to ensuring efficiency in responding to citizens' needs, according to the Ministry of ICT and Innovation.
- South Africa: Eleven Die in Eastern Cape Accidentvon [email protected] (Scrolla) am 05/06/2023 um 05:12
[Scrolla] The notoriously small R61 road connecting Flagstaff and Lusikisiki claimed the lives of 11 people when a long distance bus collided with a minibus taxi on Sunday.
- Nigeria: Nigeria Owes $812.2m of $2.27bn Airlines' Blocked Funds - IATAam 05/06/2023 um 04:52
[Daily Trust] The International Air Transport Association (IATA) yesterday warned that rapidly rising levels of blocked funds constitute a threat to airline connectivity in the affected markets.
- Nigeria: Probe Missing $2.1bn, N3.1trn Subsidy Payments, SERAP Tells Tinubuam 05/06/2023 um 04:52
[Leadership] Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Bola Tinubu to investigate allegations that $2.1 billion and N3.1 trillion public funds budgeted as fuel subsidy payments are missing.
- Nigeria: Fresh Concerns As Aviation Authority Rejects Nigeria Air's Certification Requestam 05/06/2023 um 04:42
[Premium Times] NCAA said the certification process for Nigeria Air cannot progress to the second phase due to unavailability of a "formal application form" and other "necessary documents"
- Nigeria: Subsidy Removal Leaves Students Struggling with Skyrocketing Transport Costsam 05/06/2023 um 03:20
[Premium Times] Just like in towns and cities, findings revealed that intra-campus fares have also increased, in many cases by up to 100 per cent, leaving students groaning.
- Nigeria: Fuel Subsidy - Nigeria Electricity Workers to Embark On Nationwide Strikeam 05/06/2023 um 03:20
[Premium Times] "Please note that withdrawal of Services nationwide commences from 0.00 hours of Wednesday, June 7, 2023," the statement said.
- South Africa: Hammanskraal Water Quality 'Unsafe' Over High Bacteria Levels - Reportam 02/06/2023 um 15:21
[allAfrica] Cape Town -- In a report, independent laboratory testing commissioned by WaterCAN, an initiative by the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse, has found that water from three out of four taps examined in Hammanskraal produced water deemed unsafe to drink due to high levels of bacteria.