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The FAO Subregional Office for Eastern Africa concluded its 13th High-level Multidisciplinary Meeting with an urgent call to member countries in Eastern Africa to redouble their efforts to bring the fight against hunger back on track. The senior officials of the ministries of agriculture and representatives of regional economic communities...

SADC Progressed In Economic Integration – Nandi-Ndaitwah

19 Aug 2019

ESAFF

The outgoing chairperson of the Council of Ministers of the Southern African Development Community (Sadc), Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, says the regional bloc has made some progress in economic integration, but that more needs to be done on industrial development initiatives. Nandi-Ndaitwah said this during the regional bloc meeting while handing over...

SADC Project Preparation Facility Supports Only Nine Out Of 98 Regional Infrastructure Projects

17 Aug 2019

ESAFF

The SADC Project Preparation and Development Facility (PPDF) is set to be funded from Member State contributions, following recommendations to this effect by the SADC Committee of Ministers of Finance and Investment. This was revealed by Mapolao Mokoena, the Director of the SADC Infrastructure Directorate in her briefing to journalists...

Key organizations sign deal on Africa’s food security

15 Aug 2019

ESAFF

Four multilateral organizations joined officials from the African Union on Monday in Rwanda’s capital Kigali for the signing of a deal to formalize their commitment to jointly working toward addressing food and nutrition security on the continent. They comprised the World Bank, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the...

New SADC PF chief spells out vision

11 Aug 2019

ESAFF

The appointment of Boemo Sekgoma as the first woman to head the SADC Parliamentary Forum signals another step towards equal representation of women and men in political and other decision-making positions in southern Africa. Sekgoma was named as the SADC Parliamentary Forum (PF) Secretary General at the 45th Session of...

Regional parliament on SADC summit agenda

06 Aug 2019

ESAFF

The proposed transformation of the SADC Parliamentary Forum into a regional parliament is expected to be one of the issues for discussion by the 39th SADC Summit scheduled for Dar es Salaam, in Tanzania in August. This follows high-level support by leaders at the previous summit held in August 2018...

How East African states differed on the national budgets

30 Jul 2019

ESAFF

The East African Community (EAC) partner states of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda are home to 172 million citizens of whom over 22 per cent are urban. With a land area of 2.5 million square kilometres and a combined Gross Domestic Product of $172 billion, harmonisation of...

A Zambian small scale woman farmer makes a case for Agroecology in Bonn

24 Jun 2019

ESAFF

Mary Sakala, smallholder farmer leader from ESAFF-Zambia was formally invited by the United Nations to give a formal presentation at UNFCCC climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany on 19th June 2019. She was nominated as a speaker by ActionAid International, and a wide range of NGOs representing the environment, farmers, gender...

Eastern Africa nations to bring the fight against hunger back on track

SADC Progressed In Economic Integration – Nandi-Ndaitwah

SADC Project Preparation Facility Supports Only Nine Out Of 98 Regional Infrastructure Projects

Key organizations sign deal on Africa’s food security

New SADC PF chief spells out vision

Regional parliament on SADC summit agenda

How East African states differed on the national budgets

A Zambian small scale woman farmer makes a case for Agroecology in Bonn

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