Across the region, agriculture has been a crucial economic activity that has to levitate communities’ economies and promote some major changes, in farmer’s lives. 

Farming has changed significantly over the past decade. This change has not occurred or is being adopted evenly across the globe. Europe, North, South America, and Asia have been developing and utilizing agriculture mechanization quite fast. 

However, the latter has not been active in sub-Saharan Africa for a while. For the record, farming practices present during the 1960s when most of Africa, was liberating itself from colonial hands, are largely being divorced currently. …

As the number of people demanding food supply has kept increasing since 2015 from 1.1 million to 2.7 million, Cameroon is striving to keep its farming systems updated and strong. According to the Aid and International Development Forum, 57 per cent of the rural people live in poverty.

Cameroon has more than 28 million people and like the rest of other African nations, it is endowed with rich natural resources, including oil and gas, but more importantly, Cameroon has a wide variety of agricultural products, such as coffee, cotton, cocoa, maize and cassava.…

Tanzania has always run on a wider and richer path of reliable business partners, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is one of them. The two countries have been engaging in a number of diplomatic and economic operations since 1974, and they have built a healthy partnership. 

With the new administration led by President Samia Suluhu, which is strictly focused on opening and building strategic partnerships with other countries, the UAE and Tanzania could foster more tangible business relations, from the extractives sector to tourism and hospitality. 

The new administration is now streamlining deliberate efforts to promote tourism and industrial development to create more jobs and improve the national economy. 

At the moment different top-tier investing parties have showcased their confidence in Tanzania, including Africa’s wealthiest man, Aliko Dangote, who plans to construct a fertilizer factory {The Citizen}. 

The UAE holds nearly 10 million people and stands on a $421 …

The Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry has been instrumental in enabling Dubai’s business sector to move forward, despite the global pandemic. As trade, tourism and innovation play an integral role in Dubai’s position as a global hub for commerce and industrialization, it is important to note that the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry has been a vital component in the success of the Emirate. Today, as Dubai has embarked on hosting the World Expo 2020, the leadership is looking at matters associated to sustainability and innovation as key aspects to drive change. 

It is through this vision that the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry is operating. To build bridges with markets that bode mutual benefits and respective comparative advantages to enable greater trade and business opportunities.

Through events such as the Global Business Forum Africa 2021, the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry is building the “Dubai-Africa …

• Benefits of the agreement include strategic positioning in global aviation and diversification of earning streams
• The Kenyan carrier said it remains committed to its financial turnaround strategy
• The deal comes at a time when SAA has just resumed operations after an 18 month hiatus

Kenya’s national carrier Kenya Airways (KQ) and South Africa Airways (SAA) have entered a memorandum of cooperation with a longer-term view to co-starting a Pan-African Airline Group that in time will enhance mutual growth potential between the two carriers.

In a statement, KQ said the cooperation aligns with core purpose of ‘Contributing to the sustainable development of Africa’.

The airline added that the agreement would be based on mutual benefits, including strategic positioning in global aviation, diversifying earning streams, and reinforcing regional partnership in Africa through diplomatic and commercial relations.

These benefits are expected to translate into an increase in passenger traffic, cargo opportunities, and general …

• The telco sustained 190,273 direct and indirect jobs during the year
• Safaricom registered its first decline in full year profit in nine years, in the year ended March 2021
• The report seeks to illustrate how Safaricom is using a sustainable business model to address society’s needs

Safaricom’s latest sustainable business report indicates that the company created a total value of Sh664 billion for the Kenyan society in the 2020/2021 financial year, which is ten times greater than the profit made during the year.

According to the report’s ‘True Earnings’ highlights, the firm contributed Sh557.1 billion to the economy in the financial year, which is 5.2% of Kenya’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

The independent analysis of Safaricom’s true value to society identifies the socio-economic and environmental impacts of the company and quantifies them in financial terms.

“Our Sustainable Business report, which covers our last fiscal year from 1st  April 2020 to …