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Gambia is recording a higher growth in the telecommunications and financial sector, the government has said. 

The Assistant Minister of Agriculture, Mr Oreeditse Molebatsi has urged farmers to use row planting as it produces better crops than the old fashioned broadcasting method.

Just a few months when environmentalists stood up against the government’s plan to give away part of the Mabira forest to a sugarcane growing company under the directive of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Museveni has now confounded friends and foes alike by rejecting planned move to reduce forest land cover on Mount Elgon before it is verified by the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA).

Tanzanian authorities are reporting an outbreak of swine flu fever near a gold Mine. The outbreak is reportedly interfering with mining activities.

The heights and weights of preschool children whose diets included quality protein maize (QPM) as their main starchy staple increased more than 20% faster than those of children who ate conventional maize, according to a recent study in rural Ethiopia on the nutritional benefits of QPM and its acceptance as a food.

Gabon was among the latest five more nations that recently signed the FAO-brokered treaty that once it enters into force will deny access to fishing ports to ships involved in illegal fishing.