Angola and the African Development Bank Group have launched a major agricultural development initiative aimed at increasing productivity, strengthening value chains and creating new economic opportunities for farming communities in the country’s eastern region. The Eastern Region Agricultural Value Chain Development Project is expected to reach approximately 240,000 households, representing around 1.2 million people. Women ...

BMG – an authorised distributor for over 50 years of Bijur Delimon lubrication systems – supplies and supports the full range of manual and fully automated lubrication equipment throughout Southern and Central Africa. Five-decade partnership delivers dependable lubrication solutions. “Through this partnership – which has been in place since1974 – we are able to offer ...

The African Development Bank has approved a $211.4 million financing package for the Eastern Region Agricultural Value Chain Development Project, a multi-year effort designed to raise agricultural productivity, strengthen value chains and position eastern Angola as a food-production hub linked to the Lobito Corridor. The financing aims to improve food security, raise rural incomes and ...

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has approved a $1.3 billion loan to support construction of the Soyo fertiliser complex in Angola, the country’s Minister of Mineral Resources, Petroleum and Gas, Diamantino Pedro Azevedo, announced on Friday. The wider project, a $2 billion ammonia and urea facility, is a joint venture between state-owned Sonagas and the ...

This article was produced with the support of United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Mold, in a presentation on the link between trade and food security to delegates at a side event of the 2025 ECA Conference of Ministers, cited ECA’s forthcoming report, Improving Food Security in Eastern Africa Through Greater Intra-Regional Trade –A ...

In a hot and sunny November afternoon in temperatures reaching 30C, Siphiwe Sithole is busy sorting a customer’s order of bambara beans on her farm in Laezonia, South Africa. Sithole’s farm is about 15 kilometres from the administrative capital Pretoria. It specialises in “indigenous” South African crops – a catch-all term referring both to native ...

By Musonda Mwewa The Angolan Government has called for increased partnership with the Zambian government in developing the agriculture and mining sector. Angolan Ambassador Extraordinary to Zambia ALBINO MALUNGA says the his government has a lot to learn from the Zambia’s agriculture and mining sectors. In an interview with ZNBC News at the commemoration of ...

The list of China’s food imports from Africa now includes avocados, soybeans, pineapples, chillies, cashew nuts, sesame seeds and spices. Photo: Xinhua Avocados and honey imports a sign of China’s growing agricultural engagement with Africa Agricultural cooperation to be high on the agenda when Beijing hosts the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Summit next week. South ...

The African Energy Chamber commends the partnership between Afreximbank, AMUFERT, OPAIA and Sonagas to establish a fertilizer plant in Soyo, Angola LUANDA, Angola, July, 2024/ — Pan-African multilateral financial institution the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) will support the establishment of Ammonia and Urea Fertilizer’s (AMUFERT) fertilizer plant in Soyo, Angola with a $1.4 billion financing ...

The African Development Bank’s support will help Angola strengthen job creation and promote youth entrepreneurship in the agriculture and transport sectors. The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved a loan of $79.08 million to the Republic of Angola to promote youth entrepreneurship and employment in the agriculture and transport sectors. ...