🌍 How gum arabic – the ingredient that puts the gloss in
** Gum arabic has quietly become one of Africa's most strategically important commodities, yet few Western investors recognize its market-moving pote...
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🇳🇬 CVG launches multi-million dollar farm city in Delta
Nigeria's agricultural sector is experiencing a quiet but significant transformation, with the launch of CVG FarmCity in Delta State marking a strateg...
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🇰🇪 Kenyan avocado industry in crisis on failed export ban
Kenya's avocado sector faces unprecedented turbulence following the government's failed attempt to implement an export ban—a policy reversal that has ...
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🇰🇪 Sasini to sell Nairobi avocado plant amid strategy shift
Sasini Limited, Kenya's venerable agricultural conglomerate, is divesting its Nairobi-based avocado processing facility, marking a significant strateg...
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🇳🇬 BUA Foods MD Abioye to headline 2026 Industry Summit on
Dr. Ayodele Musibau Abioye, Managing Director of BUA Foods Plc, will deliver the keynote address at Nigeria's 2026 Industry Summit—a significant platf...
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🇳🇬 Zichis relocates corporate office from Ogun to Lagos,
Zichis Agro-Allied Industries, a significant player in Nigeria's agricultural processing sector, has announced the relocation of its corporate headqua...
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🇳🇬 Africa earns under 10% of $120bn chocolate market – Report
Africa's cocoa sector faces a structural profitability crisis that should alarm European investors seeking exposure to African agricultural value chai...
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🇰🇪 Johnvents Group Closes March with Environmental Charter
In March 2026, Johnvents Group executed a strategic pivot that reveals the maturing sophistication of African consumer goods operations. The simultane...
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🇿🇼 Zimbabwe: Tobacco Turmoil - Farmers Trapped in Price Slump
Zimbabwe's tobacco sector, historically one of Africa's most reliable export commodities, is experiencing a severe contraction that extends far beyond...
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🇷🇼 How Rwanda’s Youth Are Powering Africa’s Agrifood Economy
Africa's demographic reality is stark: nearly 12 million young people enter the labour market every year, yet the continent creates only 3 million for...
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🇿🇦 WEATHER WATCH: Latest forecast for SA’s winter rainfall
South Africa faces a critical agricultural season as meteorological forecasts predict significantly below-average rainfall across the southwestern win...
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🇳🇬 Okomu Oil records N90.6 billion FY2025 profit, sets
Okomu Oil Palm Company, Nigeria's largest integrated agribusiness player, has delivered a striking financial performance for the 2025 fiscal year, wit...
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🇷🇼 Rwanda fights farmland loss with satellites
Rwanda is deploying satellite surveillance and digital mapping technologies to combat agricultural land loss—a crisis threatening food security across...
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🇳🇬 FCMB Links Value-chain Coordination to Improved Food
Nigeria's agricultural sector faces a critical coordination crisis that is undermining productivity, inflating input costs, and creating systemic food...
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🇷🇼 Rwanda tries to protect farmland in Africa's most densely
Rwanda faces an unprecedented paradox: as Africa's most densely populated nation with 535 people per square kilometre, it is simultaneously one of the...
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🇲🇿 Mozambique: They Were Not Asked. Now They Are Asking
Mozambique stands at a critical juncture as its parliament prepares to vote on sweeping tobacco control legislation—a measure that has circumvented st...
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🇳🇬 Dangote Fertiliser positioned to ease Africa food crisis,
Africa's agricultural productivity crisis has reached a critical inflection point. With population growth outpacing food production across the contine...
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🇿🇦 KZN's Gledhow Sugar Mill to be reopened
The reopening of KwaZulu-Natal's Gledhow Sugar Mill represents a significant turning point for one of South Africa's most strategically important indu...
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🇰🇪 Vermicomposting: The tiny worms transforming Kenyan farms
In the rolling farmlands of Kenya, an agricultural transformation is quietly gaining momentum—one powered not by heavy machinery or synthetic chemical...
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🇳🇬 ICPC arraigns ex-ARMTI director over alleged N48.52m
Nigeria's Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has brought criminal charges against Ibitoye Olajide Moses, forme...
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