As classrooms around the developing world begin to re-open, the U.N. World Food Programme is receiving US$119 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide school meals in five countries in Asia and Africa. “Yet again, USDA demonstrates real leadership in reaching school-age children in the developing world with proper nutrition. In many countries, school meals are the only food some… Read more on https://africa-newsroom.com/press/united-states-provides-us119-million-to-world-food-programme-wfp-for-school-meals-in-five-countries?lang=en
Month: November 2020
Nigeria approved GM Cotton and Cowpea; what’s next?
New Oil and Gas Fields in southwest Africa
By NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman, African Energy Chamber (www.EnergyChamber.org) Last spring, the Maersk Voyager, an ultra-deepwater drillship under contract by French supermajor Total, drilled a wildcat well in the deepest water ever – 3,628 meters (11,903 feet) in Block 48, a massive area with potentially huge oil reserves in the Congo basin offshore Angola. The record-setting achievement wasn’t… Read more on https://africa-newsroom.com/press/oil-and-gas-discoveries-and-activity-in-southwest-africa-set-to-open-new-basins-for-development-and-trigger-big-investments-in-namibia-angola-and-south-africa-by-nj-ayuk?lang=en