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Cameroon: Boko Haram brings hunger to northern Cameroon

More than half a million people in Cameroon’s Far North Region are in urgent need of food aid, according to […]

admin | February 16, 2015

Call for applications: Scholarships for capacity building workshop in Nairobi

The Emerging Powers in Africa project, led by social justice NGO, Fahamu, will conduct a capacity building workshop for journalists on March 15-17 in […]

admin | February 16, 2015

Hot off the presses: Farm Radio Resource Pack #100!

Farm Radio International is pleased to present its 100th Resource Pack! Pack #100 is entitled: Aquaculture: The value chain. Five […]

admin | February 16, 2015

Zimbabwe: Farmers and townsfolk suffer from ‘energy poverty’

Only 44 per cent of Zimbabwe’s three million households are connected to the national electricity supply, according to a report […]

admin | February 9, 2015

Liberia: Clinical trial of Ebola vaccines begins as outbreak ebbs

Last week, the government-run Redemption Hospital began a trial of experimental Ebola vaccines in a suburb of Monrovia. The trial […]

admin | February 9, 2015

Nigeria: Farmers face eviction by foreign mega-plantation

Thousands of small-scale farmers in northeastern Nigeria may be evicted from their ancestral lands in a major land grab, according […]

admin | February 9, 2015

Kenya: Wheat farmers face damaging new strain of stem rust

Simon Ng’ang’a will not give up without a fight. Mr. Ng’ang’a has grown wheat for the last ten years on […]

admin | February 9, 2015

World Radio Day: February 13, 2015

The first World Radio Day was officially celebrated in 2012. Now, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) […]

admin | February 9, 2015

Understanding plant diseases

This week’s story from Kenya talks about a disease called stem rust that attacks wheat. Our script of the week […]

admin | February 9, 2015

Rural radio and community media: Empowering rural youth for resilient livelihoods and improved food security and nutrition

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is celebrating this year’s World Radio Day on February 13 by convening a discussion […]

admin | February 9, 2015

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