Regional Updates MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA Egypt’s Agricultural Bank is putting up EGP 4 billion (about U.S. $254 million) “to mitigate the negative effects of the coronavirus pandemic”. All accounts with debts and defaults up to EGP 100,000 (U.S. $6,400) in November 2021 will have the debt cancelled. This is in addition to the bank’s previous announcement of the cancellation of debts up to EGP 25,000. The program is expected to benefit at least 45,000 customers of the bank. Egypt and Russia are discussing setting up a wheat duty-free logistic zone in Egypt that could hold up to 1 MMT of wheat. There is talk of forming a joint grain trading operation that would supply wheat to Egypt and neighbor...
Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve is located on the northeast coast of Unguja, 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the Town. The reserve is an important biodiversity spot in the coral rag zone. The forest reserve is rich both in faunal and floral species. The faunal species r...
Fabiana is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, native to dry slopes in western South America.[1] They are evergreen shrubs or subshrubs,[1] with needle-like leaves and profuse tiny tubular flowers in summer. The common name is false heath because the leaves superficially resem...
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