The European Union and the African Development Bank (AfDB) have earmarked about €67 million to support the fight against climate change in Niger. The funding will support the Program for Integrated Development and Adaptation to Climate Change (PIDACC) in the Niger Basin. The funding agreement was signed by the Nigerien Minister of Planning, Kané Aichatou […]
Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, the world’s two largest cocoa producers, as well as the Ivorian-Ghanian Cocoa Initiative (CIGCI), created to guarantee a minimum income to farmers, have noted “efforts” by some manufacturers to pay higher prices to producers, after giving them an ultimatum earlier this month. For several weeks, both countries reproached the chocolate manufacturers […]
The Global Compact on Migration (GCM), which was adopted on Monday in Marrakech, was hailed by world leaders, senior Govt officials, representatives of civil society and migrants as a “historic event” and the best way to address the issues of migration at the local, national, regional and global levels. Participants in the two-day Intergovernmental Conference […]
