The Angolan government and the African Development Bank (AfDB) have announced that they have signed a deal for an artisanal fisheries support project in a bid to improve the incomes of small-scale fish processors and traders
Livestock
Namibian fish exports increase by US$67.4mn
Namibia’s fish consumption doubled in 2012 from levels of fish consumption reported the previous year, according to the Namibia Fish Consumption Promotion Trust (NFCPT)
Namibian puppies to protect Tanzanian livestock from danger
The Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) has supplied four puppies from its Livestock Guarding Dog (LGD) programme to the Ruaha Carnivore project in Tanzania
ILRI launches insurance cover pilot project in Kenya
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in partnership with Takaful Insurance of Africa has launched a pilot project to support pastoral livestock herders in the drought-prone Wajir County in northern Kenya
New US$3.2 million chicken facility to be built in Cameroon
Cameroon’s Ministry of Economy, Planning and Regional Development (MINEPAT), recently revealed that US$3.2mn will be contributed towards the construction of a chicken production and processing unit in Yabassi