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President Muhammadu Buhari is set to leave Lagos for Senegal on Tuesday to attend the 2nd edition of the Dakar International Conference on Agriculture.
On Monday, the presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, said the high-level Dakar 2 Summit hosted by President Macky Sall of Senegal and the Chairperson of the African Union is holding under the theme “Feeding Africa: Food Sovereignty and Resilience.”
He said the conference, which sought to create favourable conditions toward achieving food security in Africa, is convened jointly by the government of Senegal and the African Development Bank.
“There will also be side meetings to discuss agreements on the delivery of food and agricultural products in some countries, including Nigeria.
“With Africa accounting for 249 million or a third of the 828 million hungry people in the world, the Summit, to be attended by African Heads of State and Government, Ministers of finance and agriculture, as well as several global development partners, is expected to make commitments on eradicating hunger in Africa by 2030,” he said.
According to Adesina, the delegations with the president include Ministers and top government officials like the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama; Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar; National Security Adviser, Mohammed Babagana Monguno and Director-General, National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ambassador Ahmed Rufai Abubakar.
Adesina said, the president would be back in the country on Wednesday, January 25.
Source: pmnewsnigeria.com
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