This initiative will empower 94 selected participants, with 95 percent being women, to provide high-volume, hygienic, and nutritionally balanced meals for miners. Participants will receive essential training to prepare meals…
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Algeria’s state grains agency, OAIC, recently purchased around 600,000 to 700,000 metric tons of milling wheat through an international tender.
The wheat was purchased at a price of approximately $244.50 per metric ton, cost and freight (c&f) included. The tender, which nominally sought 50,000 metric tons, is typical of Algeria’s…
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