This newsletter is a good platform resource for knowledge and information sharing, and provides readers with some factual human interest stories related to FAO's work in the regional, subregional and country level. This latest edition of FAO Regional Office for Africa Newsletter which covers the period of July-December 2017 encapsulates some key stories related to FAO-sponsored programmes in the region. The edition also presents to readers the message of the Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Africa on the Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition Report, SOFI 2017, the key messages of the report, and some human interest stories from The Gambia, Fall Armyworm, Africa's Great Green Wall Initiative, FAO's reponse to food insecurity in the Eastern Africa Region, FAO's insight of Food Security and Blue Economy and some key success stories in the region.