Philanthropist delivered biennial McDougall Memorial Lecture15 June 2021, Rome – Helping smallholder farmers, especially in low-income countries, invest in results-oriented climate-resilient agriculture is essential to achieving the Sustainable Develop…
Continue ReadingContextOver 31 million people are projected to be in acute need of food assistance this coming season (June to August 2021), a 28 per cent increase from the same period last year.[1] Of this, over 5.4 million are children suffering from acute malnutrit…
Continue ReadingSummary Findings and Recommendations.FINDINGS• In the past two months April and May 2021, there were growing incidences of clear selective enforcement of the COVID-19 Statutory Instrument 77 of 2020 -The Public Health Order, for political expedience by…
Continue Reading“I didn’t think that I could get COVID out here in my village,” says Linda Simelane at her home in Sibebe in rural Eswatini.“I stay away from people, I stay alone, but it happened that I started getting flu symptoms.”At the peak of Africa’s first wave …
Continue ReadingPRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA – In South Africa, a group called Afriforum has launched self-defense training for white commercial farmers. The group says the farmers are vulnerable to attacks, which it says are driven by tensions over unequal farmland distrib…
Continue Reading(New York, 14 June 2021): Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock today released US$135 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to boost humanitarian operations in 12 countries in Africa, the Americas and the Middle East.The announcem…
Continue Reading14 June 2021 – The President of the World Bank, Mr David Malpass, and his senior management team comprised of Dr Axel van Trotsenburg and Dr Makhtar Diop met with the African Union’s COVID-19 Vaccine Acquisition Task Team (AVATT) to discuss modalities …
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