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Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari speaks at the Dakar summit under the theme “Nourrir l’Afrique” (Feed Africa) hosted by the African Development Bank and the African Union Commission on Jan. 25, 2023. (Photo: Reuters/Ngouda Dione)

Development partners commit US$30 billion to food production in Africa

Continent facing record-level hunger

By Bate Felix January 28, 2023

Dakar | Reuters — Development partners have committed US$30 billion to boost food production in Africa over the next five years, the president of the African Development Bank said on […] Read more

A colorized electron micrograph from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) shows filamentous Ebola virus particles (in red) budding from the surface of a green monkey kidney epithelial cell. (NIAID photo courtesy U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

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Now hunger threat shadows Ebola in West Africa

By Bate Felix, Umaru Fofana October 2, 2014

Freetown/Dakar | Reuters — The threat of hunger is tracking Ebola across affected West African nations as the disease kills farmers and their families, drives workers from the fields and […] Read more

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Development partners commit US$30 billion to food production in Africa

Now hunger threat shadows Ebola in West Africa

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