Category: Agriculture
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🇬🇭President Mahama Dedicates Modern Kasoa New Market Amid Economic Revival Push
President John Dramani Mahama, Ghana’s leader since his 2024 election victory, visited Kasoa on Friday, May 8, 2026, to officially dedicate the revamped Kasoa New Market. The event marks a key step in his administration’s focus on infrastructure and the 24-hour economy initiative.[1][2][3] Ceremony Highlights The dedication ceremony drew thousands of traders, local chiefs, and…
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🇿🇦Once extinct flower now flourishing in a South African national park
Table Mountain National Park, extending south along a peninsula from Table Mountain, is a global biodiversity hotspot. A newly updated checklist, published in 2025, indicates 2,785 plant species within this approximately 250 square kilometre area. That is a higher number of species than found in the entire of someEuropean countries. But the checklist also highlights…
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Rastafari want more legal marijuana for freedom of worship
Mosiyah Tafari banged on drums and chanted psalms with other Rastafari in a ballroom where the smoke of frankincense mixed with the fragrant smell of marijuana — which his faith deems sacred. The ceremony in Columbus, Ohio marked the 91st anniversary of the coronation of the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I, whom Rastafari worship…
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🇦🇬🇧🇧 Antigua and Barbuda: Rastafari granted authorization to grow herb
For decades, members of the Rastafari community have been persecuted and imprisoned for their ritualistic marijuana use. I (was) born within the Rastafari community. My mother and father are Rastafari,” says Ras Kiyode Erasto, a priest with the Ras Freeman Foundation for the Unification of Rastafari. Erasto suffered bullying and discrimination growing up. At one…
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🇰🇪‘Holy Herb’: Kenya’s Rastafarians Fight To Decriminalize Cannabis
Kenya’s Rastafarian community returned to the High Court in November, pressing for the decriminalization of cannabis in religious worship. They argue that the country’s narcotics laws violate their constitutional rights to privacy and faith. Despite cannabis’s central role in Rastafarian worship, adherents face persistent criminalization rooted in colonial-era laws that branded the herb as a…
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🇰🇪 Rastafari Priest Challenges Kenya’s Cannabis Ban: “Holy Herb” Essential for Worship, Says High Court Witness
The priest admitted that Rastafari members continue using cannabis during prayer despite it being illegal in Kenya, saying the community is in court to seek legal recognition of the practice as part of their religious freedom. The case could determine whether Rastafari followers will be allowed to use marijuana legally for worship.] include tags separated…
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🇸🇳 Senegal soldier killed in clash during anti-cannabis operation in Casamance
A Senegalese soldier was killed and six others wounded during a clash in the Casamance region while conducting an anti-cannabis operation near The Gambia. The army confronted armed individuals, and some attackers were also killed. The operation aims to combat cannabis cultivation and armed groups. Casamance, with a history of separatist conflict since 1982, has…
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🇬🇭 Ghana’s new licensing regime for cannabis cultivation
Ghana’s new licensing regime for cannabis cultivation is a controlled bet on low‑THC “industrial hemp” and medical use, not a blanket legalization of weed — and it could reshape who profits from West Africa’s next green boom.[1][2] What Ghana Just Legalised In other words, Ghana is legalising a tightly regulated hemp and medical‑cannabis value chain,…
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Hunger crisis is set to get worse in west and central Africa – why and what to do about it
Countries in west and central Africa are facing a food crisis with multiple causes. Estimates in late December 2025 suggested that 41.8 million people were already in crisis or worse in October-December 2025. The number was expected to rise to 52.8 million in June-August 2026. Researchers Kirui Oliver Kiptoo and Chibuzo Nwagbosu explain how serious the situation is. How severe is food insecurity…
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African millennials and Gen Z are quitting their big-city dreams to go make more money back on the farm
On a blazing afternoon in Senegal, 33-year-old farmer Filly Mangassa heaved peanut plants onto a horse-drawn cart, sending clouds of dust swirling. Ten years ago, he left his village for the capital, Dakar, dreaming of becoming a professor. But the high cost of living and lack of jobs put that dream out of reach. “Particularly…
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