First Independent Mena Newspaper
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has teamed up with the European Union and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) with the aim to boost fishery production across the West Africa region. The ECOWAS has recently convened more than 100 experts in a meeting tagged ‘Improved Regional Fisheries Governance in Western Africa (PESCAO)’ […]
An estimated 4 million people, many of them small subsistence farmers, in over a dozen countries in West and Central Africa that have seen their crops decimated by unusually heavy flooding. In northern Cameroon, for example, the latest floods have destroyed the harvest for this season, while nearly 1 million hectares of farmland across the […]