The board of directors of the African Development Fund has approved a US$27.9mn grant to Ghana for the development of agricultural value chains in the Savannah region
On 16 December, a US$50mn International Development Association (IDA) additional financing was approved under the second phase of the West Africa regional Food Systems Resilience Programme (FSRP-2)
On 8 December, the Southern African Agri Initiative (SAAI) and the Transvaal Agricultural Union of South Africa (TLU SA) signed an agreement to broaden, deepen and strengthen cooperation between these two organisations
On 9 December, the Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) in Abidjan approved US$73.81mn to finance the Sudan Emergency Wheat Production Project under the Bank’s African Emergency Food Production Facility
On 6 December, Omar Alieu Touray, president of the ECOWAS commission signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) worth US$1.589mn with the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation of the Kingdom of Spain on support to ECOWAS Specialised Agencies, namely: the ECOWAS Centre for Gender Development (ECDG), the ECOWAS Agency for Agriculture and Food (RAAF) and the ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE) in Abuja, Nigeria
